Microsoft E3 Conference 2008

The Microsoft E3 press conference was held in Los Angeles on Monday. Microsoft revealed it’s first-ever footage of its much expected game Fallout 3 and also some real action from Resident Evil 5.

The event started a bit late and with some technical difficulties and the Conference began few minutes past 10:30.

Microsoft E3 Press Conference Fallout 3 Game Demo

Don Mattrick, Senior Vice President of Interactive Entertainment Business started off with the intro followed by the presentation of Fallout 3. Mattrick also announced that there would be substantial downloadable content exclusive to Xbox 360 and Windows users.

Jun Takeuchi, Resident Evil 5 producer, preceded the conference with a live demo. The characters were from different origin. Resident Evil 5 would be available for North American and European gamers simultaneously.

The press conference also included revealing of Fable 2 video, the same video shown some months back and a Gears of War 2 trailer. Don mentioned that there has been over $1 billion worth downloaded content by customers for Xbox live.

Microsoft informed that with the launch of Guitar Hero World Tour, Xbox 360 gamers can download a track pack with REM songs. Metallica would also join with Guitar Hero to release its full length album Death Magnetic as a Digital Loop Carrier. These would be included in Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero World Tour [GHWT] which would be launched on September.