Chris Kohler's discussions

The war between Sony and Nintendo over Monster Hunter has been fascinating. A ping-pong match of who gets the “real” series and who gets the spinoffs. This is quite a divergence from the gameplay of previous titles, though! Dynamic, lots of jumping and swinging on vines and gliding on pterodactyls on the part of the… Read more

I think so, yes. Read more

“Thank you all for making PlayStation one of the most-loved brands in the world.” Well, when you put it that way, gosh. Read more

Shawn Layden is only here because it would be really strange if they literally just ran a bunch of trailers back to back to back. Read more

Well, the audio works on YouTube, although it’s like 30 seconds behind the Twitch stream. Read more

Can’t hear a damned thing, confirmed. They’re on the audience mic and not running direct audio from the trailer, I think. Read more

Unless they’re really dumping gallons of sand on this band. Read more

I guess the cool projection screens are back. Read more

No but for real now. Read more

Okay, the actual thing is finally starting. That was a lot of announcements for not being the actual press conference. Maybe they needed to make room for another 30 minutes of Star Wars Battlefront II. Read more

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, November 10, 2017. Read more

2017: Sony announces Earthbound-inspired game, Nintendo still won’t do Mother 3. Read more

One more game from Sony: It’s Undertale! Read more

It’s Tropico 6, coming to PS4 in 2018. Read more

So Sony’s been running its “pre-show” on the stream for the last 45 minutes already, and unlike the usual pre-shows for these things this one seems to have... content? And announcements? Gran Turismo Sport is coming out Fall 2017, for example. Superhot VR this summer. Read more

I’m old enough to remember when E3 press conferences weren’t just a string of 20 YouTube videos stitched together. Where are the PowerPoint slides of yesteryear? Read more

Me too! Although this is just the beginning of the waiting for Beyond Good & Evil 2, I think. Well, that about wraps it up for the conference! Thanks, Gita. Read more