Hello and welcome to our live coverage of this year’s Microsoft E3 Press Conference. The picture above is of this year’s Microsoft conference stage. Expect something interesting as the company looks set to lift the lid on what they’ve been cooking.

Last year, Microsoft announced Project Natal here and teased Metal Gear Rising. This year, expect some more info about Natal, including a release date and launch-line up. Other rumours point to Microsoft unveiling 3D support for their games, more Metal Gear Rising info and a new title or titles from Rare. On top of all this, lucky yanks are supposedly set to get Hulu support on their 360s. They’re going to have to pay a subscription fee for it though. Oh yeah, episodic series Hydrophobia might be shown off somewhere along the line too.

If you would like to follow our live text/image feed of this year’s conference, it’s ready and waiting for you after the jump. We’ll be following up our live coverage with a mass of news posts from the event.

Here’s our liveblogging box. It will automatically update, so there’s no need to refresh. The delay between us posting the updates and them reaching the site is about 10 seconds max, so please be patient. Expect to see more of it during E3. We’ve made it as big as we could so you can catch up on all the E3 drama live right here if you’re running late. We’ll be updating the post at the end of every conference to preserve everything we said in the liveblog. Our comments at the bottom of the post also automatically update, so all you have to do to enjoy it all is grab a nice cold beer, some food and reading/gaming material for the boring bits. We hope you enjoy E3! Here’s the Microsoft press conference liveblog: