Liver&Onions

Xbox Live Invites All Global Gamers to Jump In to the E3 experience

For the first time ever, Xbox brings E3 – the biggest video game event of the year – to the people, by inviting the world to engage in the full Xbox Live experience free for an entire week. From 12:01am PDT Monday May 8 – 11:59pm PDT Sunday May 14, connected gamers can access the best of E3 content, including the first-ever Gears of War high-definition game trailer on Xbox Live Marketplace, the playable demo of Capcom’s Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, and Game with Fame multiplayer sessions live from the floor with celebrities like Dave Navarro (Panic Channel), Method Man and Jenny McCarthy.



During E3 week, Xbox 360 fans will be able to download game demos and trailers from the hottest E3 titles and experience them in high definition. Over 60 pieces of new downloadable content will be available to gamers this week including:



* Playable game demos and/or trailers from highly anticipated titles like:

o Crackdown (Microsoft Game Studios)
o Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2 (Tecmo)
o The Lord of the Rings ™, The Battle for Middle Earth™ II (EA Los Angeles)
o Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Capcom)
o Moto GP™ ’06 (THQ)
o Sonic the Hedgehog™ (Sega)
o Splinter Cell Double Agent ™ (Ubisoft)
o Test Drive Unlimited (Atari)
o Viva Pinata (Microsoft Game Studios)
o Plus a flood of HD trailers from games that have yet to be announced



* Call of Duty 2 – New Multiplayer Map Packs (Activision)
* The release of UNO on Xbox Live Arcade

* Game with Fame celebrity gaming sessions with stars like Jenny McCarthy, Method Man and Panic Channel (Featuring Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins, Chris Chaney and Steve Isaacs).
* Play and Win contests with the latest Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Arcade titles
* Exclusive high-definition blockbuster movie trailer downloads
* Limited edition E3 Gamerpics and Themes
* A Backstage Pass to see developers preparing for E3

Liver&Onions

So this makes me think that today's update is meant to enable a ton of people better download speeds. A server update was probably in order to let people download tons of data, and be happy with it.

Canis Firebrand

Nice.. Uno and Call of Duty maps.

DJ_Longfellow

Bravo.

Marketplace is excellent.

kakihara1

Holy shit!! they're really going all out I'll be checking out tons of that stuff.

Michael Corvin

Now if only they would release the dashboard update.

That is the only reason why I don't ever use the marketplace, because I can't do anything else at the same time.

Eric D.

New Call of Duty 2 maps!

tenaciousdave

The playable demos and HD trailers actually make it better than going to E3. The lines and crowds are a total dick.

If only Nintendo and Sony could do the same thing.

jonw9

I wish I could start downloading now, so it would be finished by next week.

Flay

How badass would it be if they included a Halo 3 trailer in that bunch?

DAC

How long is this update supposed to take anyway? It's been at least 5 hours now.

kakihara1

I think they said something like 12-16 hours

Eric D.

14-16 hours.

Canis Firebrand

Live should be back at 1600 PST(4pm PST). Meaning that after dinner, I should be able to jump on live and check things out/play games. It will be 7pm for me when it comes back online.

Liver&Onions

Forgot to include the following in my inital copy/paste:
Building on the success of the Xbox Live Free Gold Weekend partnership, Verizon will be presenting gamers in the U.S. with a free full week of Xbox Live Gold access and sponsoring the Xbox.com E3 coverage for the week. In addition to this, Verizon will be sponsoring the giving away of a million Microsoft points. For more information about the week long programming and giveaway, US gamers should check out www.xbox.com/e32006 and www.richerdeeperbroader.com/xbox/.

European football fans getting a boost from adidas

As well as bringing E3 right into their homes, soccer loving Xbox 360 owners in Europe can also take advantage of the Xbox Live™ Football Free-For-All, sponsored by adidas, taking place at the same time. This is a week-long schedule of activities on Xbox Live that celebrates all things football in a non-stop, connected world – gamers in European countries should check out www.Xbox.com for more details.

tbird2340

Good call. I would love to be able to download demos / trailers WHILE I play a game.. Did they say they are going to make that happen? If so..

Mr. Cinema

I hope Test Drive: Unlimited has a playable demo, but I'll settle for a trailer.

Blade

MS has said it's working on this, but no hard date that I've seen. Lots of us are hoping that this big update means they're putting it in now.

Michael Corvin

I think major nelson has hinted at it, but he is pretty vague when it comes to the dashboard update.

edstein

A million points would be sweet. Too bad you couldn't resell those to make a little profit.

Anyone know what Jenny McCarthy's gamertag is? GoLucky needs to add her to the DVDtalk gamertag list.

Liver&Onions

If thye do it like they did last time, it's given away in blocks of 500 points to any gamertag.

I'm sure Jenny's GT will be released soon

Canis Firebrand

On his site, where people are discussing the XBox Live update, believing it to be a dashboard update, and his podcast reporting the live service update, Major Nelson posted this.

tenaciousdave

I'm hoping Jenny is there to demonstrate the new camera's booby showing features.

pizzamousechips

Anyone know how many demos can be held in the HD?

kakihara1

depends on how big they are.