Time Warner Cable News’ coverage of the annual E3 video game conference in Los Angeles continues with a look at the plethora of highly anticipated new titles from the folks at Sony. Tech reporter Adam Balkin filed the following report.
It is called the E3 video game convention, and Sony clearly took the ‘game’ part of that phrase quite literally this year. At its big press conference, there was very little talking and very few executives on stage. The ones that were, in just a few words, just kept teeing up title after title, most of them PS4 exclusives - like Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End.
The Last Guardian, the third part in a trilogy, anticipated for years, was finally confirmed to be a reality.
The one game that did get a bit of an explanation, because frankly it needs one and afterwards was still a bit confusing, Dreams. In this one, you play puppet master with digital images to recreate your dreams.
“We’re building a place where you go to play and explore the dreams of others and then you can create and share your own,” says Alex Evans of Media Molecule. “Every individual dream is seamlessly linked to the others, sort of woven into an open dream-verse. You can get lost for hours exploring, journeying through the imaginations of thousands of PS4 gamers.”
There was one quick detour from games though. Sony talked a bit more about its virtual reality system, Project Morpheus.
Sony executives tried to stress that even though virtual reality requires that you put on a headset and pretty much block out the real world, that does not necessarily mean virtual reality has to be anti-social.
“Imagine playing a Morpheus game while four of your friends are inside the same virtual world, playing alongside of you with dual shock force on the couch,” says Andrew House, President, Sony Computer Entertainment. “And for the multiplayer experience we’re introducing Rigs that puts you in the middle of a futuristic three-vs-three battle arena, eSports, Morpheus-style."
Project Morpheus is set to launch the first half of next year.