E3 2016: Ubisoft Conference Liveblog/Recap

<p>Hey-yo&excl; Logan here&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;m the Senior Reviews Editor of BagoGames&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ve found your way to our liveblog of the Ubisoft E3 press conference&period; So hang out&comma; keep refreshing&comma; and follow along as we cover the minute-to-minute updates from the video game publisher&excl; Laughter will be had&comma; tears will be shed&comma; and video games are sure to be announced&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ubisoft is a huge publisher in the industry&comma; and their conference is sure to cover a lot&period; A leak on the sequel of <em>Grow Home<&sol;em> might point to one announcement&comma; and trophies have appeared online for a PS4 port of <em>South Park&colon; The Stick of Truth<&sol;em>&comma; but there are sure to be a lot of new things to explore&excl; We can expect more information on <em>Watch Dogs 2<&sol;em>&period; I personally would love to see more on their game <em>For Honor<&sol;em>&comma; and <em>Far Cry<&sol;em> will undoubtedly poke its head in&period; But will we FINALLY see <em>Beyond Good and Evil 2&quest;&excl;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But let&&num;8217&semi;s get to the good stuff&period; All updates will appear below&period; All timestamps will be PST&period; Enjoy&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p><strong>3&colon;00 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> It&&num;8217&semi;s over&comma; everyone&excl; Thanks for following along&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve been your liveblogging host&comma; Logan&comma; and make sure you stay right here with BagoGames for coverage on Sony next&excl; Until then&comma; signing off&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;58 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> A final video montage of Ubisoft&&num;8217&semi;s properties&period; The conference was REALLY long&comma; but overall&comma; quite successful&excl; Ubisoft has some great things coming up&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;57 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Everyone has come onstage&period; The CEO says that this is 30 years &&num;8220&semi;&&num;8230&semi;in the best industry in the world&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;55 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> You will be able to register for Steep Beta online&comma; and the game releases this December&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;53 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> They end their Steep coverage by saying that the game is also about &&num;8220&semi;enjoying the mountains&period;&&num;8221&semi; Looks gorgeous to me&comma; and the rest of our BagoGames team is impressed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;52 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Seems like a great&comma; dynamic Replay mode for editing and sharing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-108649 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03142409&sol;Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-4&period;48&period;28-PM&period;png" width&equals;"783" height&equals;"433" &sol;>2&colon;48 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Gameplay shown&period; Gorgeous&period; An open-world sports game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-108648 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03142427&sol;Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-4&period;44&period;47-PM&period;png" width&equals;"777" height&equals;"443" &sol;>2&colon;47 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> From Studio Annecy comes <em>Steep<&sol;em>&period; Trailer shown featuring voices of professional athletes cliff-diving&comma; snowboarding&comma; etc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;44 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> New IP&period; Competitive sports mixed with Open-world gameplay&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;43 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Robot buddy announced with Collector&&num;8217&semi;s Edition&period; One more game left&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;41 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> DLC will be coming to PlayStation 30 days earlier than anywhere else&period; Official trailer shown&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;39 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Ubisoft will be partnering with Sony for Watch Dogs 2&comma; just like the first Watch Dogs&period; Watch Dogs movie officially announced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;38 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Alright&excl; Demo is over&period; Again&comma; cool gameplay&period; CEO takes the stage to talk about Watch Dogs 2&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;36 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Not gonna lie&period; Gameplay looks fun&comma; but this is a pretty long&comma; semi-boring segment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;34 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> The main character is infiltrating a building and asked for some music&period; Got some great R&amp&semi;B&sol;rap&period; Very nice touch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-108636 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03142449&sol;Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-4&period;29&period;36-PM&period;png" width&equals;"781" height&equals;"438" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;31 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Hacking looks awesome&comma; and the in-game cinematics look excellent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;29 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Ah&comma; of course&excl; An in-depth look at Watch Dogs 2&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;28 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> The stream has been &&num;8220&semi;hi-jacked&&num;8221&semi;&excl; Not really&comma; but we are getting a look at something&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;26 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> I definitely think the movie has potential&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;24 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Getting to see a bit of new footage&excl; And some behind the scenes looks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;21 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Not a whole lot of news here&period; Discussing the changes&comma; filming locations&comma; etc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;20 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Frank Marshall &lpar;Indiana Jones&comma; Bourne films&rpar; takes the stage to discuss the upcoming Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed movie&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;18 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> A trailer in the style of old 90&&num;8217&semi;s commercials&comma; Trials of the Blood Dragon&period; Out NOW&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;16 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> I have no idea what&&num;8217&semi;s happening now&period; Ubisoft employees in red sweatsuits&&num;8230&semi;wait&&num;8230&semi;Blood Dragon&quest;&excl;&quest;&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-108615 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03142512&sol;Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-4&period;13&period;52-PM&period;png" width&equals;"784" height&equals;"443" &sol;><strong>2&colon;15 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Grow Up announced for all consoles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;13 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Grow Home&excl; Sounds like a sequel&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;12 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Release Date&colon; February 14th&comma; 2017&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-108608 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03142601&sol;Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-4&period;08&period;58-PM&period;png" width&equals;"785" height&equals;"443" &sol;>2&colon;08 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Definitely a Dynasty Warriors feel&comma; in my opinion&period; There also appears to be a major element of combat in regards to changes stances&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;05 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> We get some gameplay of the vikings&comma; headed to plunder the samurai&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;04 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Last year&comma; they outlined the multiplayer element of the game&period; This is a trailer for the single-player campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-108596 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03142720&sol;Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-3&period;59&period;33-PM&period;png" width&equals;"782" height&equals;"437" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>2&colon;01 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Looks like a new trailer for For Honor&comma; describing &&num;8220&semi;A thousand years of war&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;59 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Star Trek&colon; Bridge Crew comes out this fall on all major VR systems&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;56 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Levar Burton has taken the stage to talk about the experience&period; He emphasizes that everyone had to do their best to get the job done&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;54 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Official title &&num;8211&semi; Star Trek&colon; Bridge Crew&period; Joke about the title being previously leaked on Reddit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;53 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> A team-based co-op game&period; Everyone must work together&period; Looks interesting&comma; but there&&num;8217&semi;s not a lot going on and the graphics do NOT look great&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;52 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Ah&comma; of course&period; Star Trek VR&period; Featuring a gameplay look with Levar Burton&excl; And other celebs&comma; I suppose&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;51 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> A new VR space game from Red Storm Studio&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-108587 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03142800&sol;Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-3&period;45&period;39-PM&period;png" width&equals;"792" height&equals;"441" &sol;>1&colon;46 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> You&&num;8217&semi;re an eagle trying to capture a rabbit and get it back to your nest&period; If I&&num;8217&semi;m not mistaken&comma; graphics seem to have taken a step backwards since we last saw it&&num;8230&semi;But still looks fun&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;45 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> The first live PvP gameplay in VR&period; Exciting&period; 3v3 teams in the game&comma; capture the flag style&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;43 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Eagle Flight for VR&period; This is one I&&num;8217&semi;m EXTREMELY excited for&period; Palmer Lucky&comma; creator of Oculus&comma; is on stage to play&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;41 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Survival Expansion announced&period; Trailer released&period; Looks like trying to survive in a storm&period; Interesting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-108583 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03142822&sol;Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-3&period;39&period;50-PM&period;png" width&equals;"784" height&equals;"441" &sol;>1&colon;40 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> 3 costumes available in honor of Ubi&&num;8217&semi;s 30th&excl; Available for UbiClub members&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;39 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Time for <em>The Division&period; <&sol;em>The new Underground Expansion is discussed&comma; and comes out June 28th for XBO and PC&comma; and August 2nd on PS4&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;36 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> The characters want to become superheroes and start a billion-dollar franchise&comma; but instead Civil War erupts&excl; And PC Principal makes a cameo at the end&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;34 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> If you pre-purchase the game&comma; you get <em>The Stick of Truth<&sol;em> on your next-gen console for free&excl; The <em>Fractured But Whole<&sol;em> will be released on December 6th&period; Trailer incoming&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;32 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Now they&&num;8217&semi;re discussing the revamped combat system&comma; including moving through a space&comma; knocking characters around&comma; using powers to get around obstacles&comma; and using your farts to alter space and time &lpar;including changing the turn order&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;30 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> HAHAHAHA&excl; Lots of discussion about moms and dads &&num;8220&semi;doin&&num;8217&semi; it&period;&&num;8221&semi; Hilarious&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;29 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Matt and Trey make a joke about the Kanye game and show us more gameplay featuring the backstory of the character you create&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-108575 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03142845&sol;Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-3&period;26&period;08-PM&period;png" width&equals;"785" height&equals;"440" &sol;>1&colon;28 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> This is a &&num;8220&semi;sequel&&num;8221&semi; of sorts to <em>The Stick of Truth<&sol;em>&period; You and the other kids of South Park become superheroes&excl; It REALLY feels like you&&num;8217&semi;re playing an episode of the hit TV show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;24 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Trey Parker and Matt Stone take the stage to talk about the new game&comma; <em>South Park&colon; The Fractured But Whole&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;23 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Time for South Park&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;22 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Released March 7th&comma; 2017 for PS4&comma; Xbox One&comma; and PC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;19 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Dirt bikes and a truck shown in chase&period; This looks really good&comma; everyone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;17 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Use of aerial drones shown&period; Background audio of characters is good&comma; and shows off 4-player co-op play&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-108566 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03142905&sol;Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-3&period;15&period;21-PM&period;png" width&equals;"791" height&equals;"440" &sol;>1&colon;15 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Classic over-the-shoulder gameplay footage shown&period; Vehicles&comma; including helicopters and rovers&comma; are shown&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;13 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> A couple of sound issues&comma; but <em>Wildlands<&sol;em> looks goooooood&comma; and Butler claims it is the largest open world Ubisoft has ever created&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;11 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Dominic Butler takes the stage to discuss cocaine &lpar;yep&rpar; and the story of a coke king and the ghosts attempting to take down the cartel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-108562 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03142927&sol;Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-3&period;09&period;27-PM&period;png" width&equals;"784" height&equals;"438" &sol;>1&colon;08 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> <em>Ghost Recon&colon; Wildlands<&sol;em> trailer&excl; Looks solid&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;07 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Aisha does an introductory monologue about this being her 5th year hosting and how she&&num;8217&semi;s paid in red wine and sarcasm&period; Oh&comma; also&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s Ubisoft&&num;8217&semi;s 30th birthday&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;05 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> <em>Just Dance 17<&sol;em> is coming to all platforms in October and Nintendo NX next year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;03 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Aisha Tyler &lpar;great host&excl;&rpar; introduces Just Dance 17&period; Also&comma; she takes a moment to acknowledge the tragedy in Orlando&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-108555 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03142949&sol;Screen-Shot-2016-06-13-at-3&period;01&period;43-PM&period;png" width&equals;"781" height&equals;"437" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;03 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Extremely weird and colorful dance sequence&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s a lion somewhere in there&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>1&colon;00 &&num;8211&semi; <&sol;strong>Off we go&excl; Opening with <em>Just Dance&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>12&colon;58 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Excellent opening retrospective video&period; Tweet to them using the hashtag &num;ubiE3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>12&colon;56 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Looks like we&&num;8217&semi;re starting early&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>12&colon;54 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> Where are you watching&quest; Youtube&quest; Twitch&quest; SOMEWHERE ELSE&quest;&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>12&colon;45 &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> 15 minutes to launch&excl; Are you ready&quest;&quest; Let us know what you want to see&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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