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Chris Kohler
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Features Editor, Kotaku. Japanese curry aficionado. Author of the books Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life and Final Fantasy V from Boss Fight Books.

Okay, place your bets on what the live music is going to be for Death Stranding. I’m gonna say Norman Reedus opens his mouth and a baby pops out playing a tiny harmonica.

Well, the Twitch stream just died, so that happened. Read more

One of the talking heads for these segments is Meredith Molinari, former host of... The Tester. (Kids, ask your parents what that was.) Read more

So it seems like what’s going on here is the live attendees are being shuffled through four different rooms, each of which is themed after one of the four games. While we wait for them to move around, we are cutting to these interview segments where other news gets dropped. Read more

Oh man, New Game Plus! Everybody wanted that. That makes this weird interview worthwhile. Read more

Is this the first time that we’ve ever taken a break from an E3 conference and cut to something else? Read more

Well, we sure moved quickly from cute people kissing into tremendous violence.

Okay, so the room everyone’s currently standing up in is a recreation of this scene from The Last Of Us II. Read more

Somebody just shouted “Freebird” at this banjo player. Read more

“Rather than a bombardment of new creative,” says Layden, Sony’s going to do deeper dives. AKA: Lower your expectations for megaton announcements. Read more

Shawn Layden is joking about “church” and the “congregation,” thus finally marking the transformation of console fandom into an actual religion. Read more

A little disclaimer has popped up on stream to indicate that the conference will begin shortly, implying that whatever the hell this is, it’s not the conference. Read more

Oh, before this thing starts: All I want is PS1 games on PS4. Read more

We’re not seeing this on the livestream, but apparently attendees of the Sony conference are inside... a... creepy church? Read more

Hi, Heather. So Sony has already said what it plans to discuss, from a first-party standpoint, at this conference: Death Stranding, Last Of Us II, Ghost of Tsushima, and Spider-Man. That doesn’t include third parties and indies, but that’s a good indication that Sony’s not going to have any major first-party game Read more