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The most boring, derivative and depressing conference I can ever remember watching. Every game looks exactly the same (brown, dudebro, QTE riddled "Press A To Win" quasi interactive movies) While Halo 4 looks a bit more interesting than the other ones (thanks to stealing from Metroid Prime), the only somewhat interesting game wasn't even shown (South Park The Stick of Truth) If this is to be the future of gaming, I want to see it crash and burn. Fuck this industry.

I'd take Nikkei's story with a grain of salt. Their rumours are wrong just as often as they are right (they leaked the existence of the 3DS just before Nintendo announced it, but got most of the details wrong) It's not an outlandish rumour, so it could be true; the Wii U pricing rumour however is a big red flag for me. They're not announcing the price at E3 and probably haven't even decided on the final price yet, so how could they have accurate details?

Nah, not really. They probably commissioned an animation studio to make a quickie 10 second clip that they just edited into this video.

I'm certain that they'll package in a Wiimote plus & Nunchuck (Non motionplus Wiimote un-supported) inside the box. They're already showing games that require the Wiimote (Wii Sports U and Zelda Wii U is said to be using the Wiimote Plus too) and those things are dirt cheap. No reason to not do it (especially since it comes with the sensor bar) It also appears in this screen too (look next to the Wii U console under the TV) That's obviously not an accident... The real question now is whether or not the Wii U Pro Controller will also come packaged in as well? (The less excuses given to 3rd parties the better!) The whole thing is a pisstake on generic zombie shooting FPS games (and the audience that plays them...)

Whoops I dun goofed. Mystery solved! The next one now is what that gold icon on NSMB Mii is all about... Straight up achievements (OH GOD PLEASE NO!) or something a bit smarter? Perhaps it's a live update on someone who just finished a level in under 100 seconds? Or maybe some sort of automatic time trial ghost sharing? (they did mention game content sharing as part of Miiverse...)

The one on the left is number of replies, the right one is number of likes?

There's still a lot of unanswered questions though, like whether or not they have the MK7 Communities feature working on an OS level and how the online store setup works. It's a bit early to start proclaiming superiority over all other services, but it does look very promising indeed (so long as I can turn off notifications while playing a game - I wouldn't want to be playing a game like Zelda and get bombarded with Facebook style spam, I hate that crap!)

The Pro controller is for "gamers" and developers who are scared to touch anything other than a 360 controller.

I think I've figured out why they swapped the 2nd analog and the face buttons... http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/108/1081673p1.html Patents: D521,015 D522,011 D547,763 D581,422 D563,480 D565,668 So what will be the excuse to not support the Wii U now? (I'm looking at you Kojima...)

Bingo. It's so blatantly obvious that this controller is not of pure Nintendo design (it's co-developed with 3rd parties ALA Classic Controller Pro/Circle Pad Pro with Capcom) Kind of sad that they have to do this, even with the tablet featuring all the same controls as a 360 controller. Just shows how uncreative and resistant to change most 3rd parties really are...

Screw the Miiverse and the Wii U Controller Pro, the real megaton here is the Curtain! (I'm only half joking) BTW, did anyone else notice the strangely high concentration of Boo in that video? He appears more often than every other character combined; suspicious...

What in the unholy fuck!?!?!?!? WHAT!? WHY!? I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON AN E3 BLACKOUT! What the hell happens to my E3 prediction Bingo card now!? (does it still count for things that are outside the press conference!?) What the hell do they need a THIRD SHOW for!? This is AWESOME! :D Lol, Sony and MS must be PISSED (they're like, hey let's go first this time to steal the attention away from Wii U - Nintendo: "SURPRISE!" ) Maybe this is how it's gonna work? Sunday - Nintendo Direct focusing on hardware, show off new console/controller design and features (so that 3rd party conferences can show off their games without issue) Monday - 3rd party press conferences with Wii U games Tuesday - Press conference (Wii U first party software with probably some third party), website will probably be updated after conference with even more games/info, developer discussion with Katsuya Eguchi. Wednesday - Software showcase (All 1st & 3rd party games - including 3DS stuff)

That teaser is complete bollocks, not even a CG trailer!? The Mega 64 vid was the only good thing about that "conference". Not even any real funnies (The pathetic Ronaldo shilling was a small exception though )

That wasn't the one I was thinking of, but yes that video is awesome!

I don't care anymore since we're probably not gonna get this game anyway. If Capcom aren't interested in releasing 3G, they can go fuck themselves

I know! It's crazy just how much production values have increased over the years. I was going back and watching the E3 highlight vids of all the past years and I was shocked at how low key some of the early stuff felt! (the GCN reveal in 2001 feels like that episode of Alan Partridge where he's shilling his book at the train station! ) It wasn't until 2004 when E3 finally became the event we know and love today (ignoring the dark times in 2008-2009, when they tried downsizing the event)

This would only happen if KH3 is coming to Wii U... But either way, this is way too generous of a collection to ever be offered by S-E. They'll sell them in at least 2 volumes (If we're lucky - more likely, they'll sell them all piecemeal) I call BS.

It's VVVVVVery good! Amazing just how much they get out of a single control mechanic! It's not really a platformer in the traditional sense, since there's no jumping (just gravity flipping and that's it) It's very well designed and well worth the money (hell it's worth it for the bitchin C64 style soundtrack alone!)

Looks good (there are more scans out there now) and the details sound good. Cautiously optimistic about this one. LOS was flawed, but made with a lot of heart and was a clear step in the right direction for 3D CV.

Wait a sec. Wasn't Strange Journey SMT4?

Yes it did (a year-ish after the US release, but it got there!) and it's a great little score attack game. Criminally cheap (200 points/$1.80) and it's one of NST's best games! Get it ASAP.

This week's haul: Wii VC: Mega Man X2 (SNES - 800 points) 3DS VC: Rayman (GBC - £4.50/€5) 3DS Download Software: Sweet Memories Blackjack (CIRCLE Entertainment, £3.60/€4) Not bad all in all. Here's hoping that NOA follow suit so that I can get the superior US version of X2

Spot on. That's something that's really brilliant about this game, in that unlike many other puzzle games, there's a lot of room for creative thinking here. While a puzzle might be designed around an intended solution, there is more often than not, lots of other potential solutions (with some unintended ones too. Thanks to the realistic physics used, you can come up with some really crazy solutions like where you end up passing by the skin of your teeth with the block just about to fall in the water and the timer just happens to run out just in time ) I think Shinen are at their best when they take a very simple gameplay mechanic (that may have been done before) and build upon it. Aside from their shmups, their best games are the simpler ones.

Wow! Sony's E3 conference just got a lot more interesting for me! The question now is, how will it be implemented and what will it be used for? Just instant streaming demos? (ALA current PC Gaikai) Or something more? This could be really interesting, especially if they roll in Gaikai's service in with PS+. Get free ad supported (with intrusive ads as detailed in this recently filed patent http://www.google.com/patents?id=lDb9AQAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=sony+entertainment&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mLS-T8TGIqqI6AHM__GqCg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=sony%20entertainment&f=false) versions of retail games when you subscribe to PS+ perhaps? Could we be looking at PC games on PS3/Vita? Use of the Vita with the PS3 as a Wii U ripoff? PS3 games on Vita? PS1, PS2 and PS3 backwards compatibility on PS4/Vita!? Or maybe, just maybe... What if the PSCloud... IS the PS4!? If they're not gonna do anything new with the controller, why spend the money on a big hardware boost when you can give people PC level graphics in 1080p 60FPS via the cloud on their current PS3? Saves Sony a ton of money on R&D, manufacturing etc and they can take advantage of their current userbase (no need to start from zero!) AND it kills used games in one fell swoop. Of course latency is still the big problem and it's one that has only been solved locally (Wii U)