A bunch of upcoming E3 news with Nintendo confirming a new Mario for the Wii U and Pikmin 3 set to debut at E3 while Sony, Microsoft, and Ubisoft revealed their press conference times.

Sony and Microsoft once again will be having their press conferences occur on the same day with Ubisoft's sandwiched in the middle on June 4th. Nintendo will have its own day once again while Konami is expected to once again have a conference occur as part of the pre-E3 show.

A new Super Mario game and the long awaited Pikmin 3 will be having their official debuts at E3 with both set for the Wii U. According to Miyamoto, Pikmin 3 is hinted to have a similar style to the previous games and will be taking advantage of the Wii U tablet.

Miyamoto didn't confirm if this new Super Mario game will be the rumored Super Mario 4 although the 3DS is also expected to have its own "classic 2D Mario" game get announced soon as well.

Luigi's Mansion 2 was confirmed to be shown for E3 in the same interview.

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http://www.giantbomb.com/news/ninten...it-at-e3/4086/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...in-game-at-e3/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...s-conferences/

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1) Microsoft will be expanding the fees for Xbox Live later this year with either new content having separate costs or the rumor of Microsoft ditching points in favor of real currency.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ter-this-year/

2) According to analysts, Sony could be considering stripping away more of their free PSN services as a way to recover the massive loss they recently posted for the fiscal year.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...free-services/

3) The developers of recently released Fez are working with Microsoft to fix issues the game has with owners of older and Arcade model Xbox 360s. No exact date was given for when the patch would be ready.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/fez-...oft-patch-bugs

4) The creator of Shadowrun Return, Jordan Weisman, says one of his goals after work on the Shadowrun revival is finished is to revive the Crimson Skies game although he admits it wouldn't be worked on any time soon.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/shad...-skies-revival

Crimsons Skies...I'd love another.

Way to go, Sony. further punish actual users for your failings. assuming it's true, of course.

Can't put my finger on it but Crimson Skies just worked.

Rare could be tweaking their game development direction after recently hiring the former head creative director of Sega West as the new head creative director boss of the company.

Simon Woodroffe, who also worked at Midway and Ubisoft, will become the new head creative director with his main experience revolving around R&D for game projects.

Woodroffe is expected to help more with the design and development of Kinect games the company currently is making than actually provide a huge shift into a new direction or even reviving classic Rare series.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...tive-director/

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Daily Recap:
1) EA's updates their Origin service to allow gamers who have been banned from an online multiplayer game or from the EA forums to still be able to play their other games in campaign/single player mode offline.Previously a banning from either area meant a complete ban from Origin and all games a user owned for the service.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/play-o...e-banned/4087/

2) Nintendo announces they are skipping this year's Gamescom convention and instead will focus more on either hosting their own convention or participating in a lot more conventions this year than usual.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/nint...-gamescom-year

3) According to Capcom, the demo for the upcoming Dragon Dogma's game will arrive on XBLA and PSN on April 24 for US/Canada and April 25 for Europe.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/drag...demo-next-week

An issue with many companies is lack of vision. Maybe this guy can help Rare, but they could have more problems than that itself.

Activision announces a new James Bond game will be released later this year but isn't a complete tie in with the upcoming Skyfall film.

The game will be called 007 Legends and ties in together five films of the Bond series with Skyfall for the game's storyline.

Eurocom was announced to be the developers of the game with Mi6 Ops missions from GoldenEye Reloaded returning for 007 Legends.

Daniel Craig was also revealed to be the Bond character for the entire game and will not feature multiple Bond characters.

The game is set for a Fall 2012 release date for the PS3 and Xbox 360 as of now.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...s-007-legends/

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Daily Recap:
1) WayForward Studio teases Battletoads could become DLC characters for the Xbox 360 version of Double Dragon Neon if enough people convince Microsoft or Rare to approve of the idea.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/batt...le-dragon-neon

2) Darksiders II has been delayed from its original June 26 date to now a potential August release date with THQ's official response being the game need more time for polish.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/darksi...o-august/4092/

3) EA announces the reboot of SSX will be getting two Classic SSX DLC packs with one adding 7 classic characters to the game's roster and the other adding in a new race track who's style resembles classic SSX tracks.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...x-dlc-for-ssx/

5 old Bond films plus the Skyfall storyline? AND we're playing as Daniel Craig? How the fuck is that gonna work?

We gonna go from Dr. No to O.H.M.S.S. to Octopussy to License to kill to Goldeneye to Skyfall?

See what I did there?

New Bethesda game.

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not sure why I'd want to buy Battletoads as DLC for a shitty Double Dragon game.

I'm not THAT nostalgic for it.

FINALLY got around to playing Portal 2. If there is any series that absolutely deserves the amount of praise it gets, it is this series.

Perfection. Through and through.

Pretty trailer with no gameplay footage.

Only as publisher, before we all get carried away and buy another Wet.

Valve needs to just come out and say they are never going to make Half Life 2 Episode 3/Half Life 3.

I liked Wet :(

I did as well. Everyone always tries to convince me it's shit, but hell, I even liked that Woo Stranglehold game.

Maybe Brink would have been the better example.

Yeah, wouldn't want to get our hopes up for another completely broken game.

Valve sux, Half Life 2 sucked, I couldnt play through it cuz it was SO BORING and LAME.
HI GORDON I AM ALYX U CANT SHOOT ME OR ANY OTHER SCIENTISTS I AM COOL

LAME.

Ashley in Resident Evil 4 is the PROPER way to do a sidekick

http://i.neoseeker.com/ca/residentev...tart_38t8C.jpg

:love: :love: :love: :love: :love::love::love::love::love::love::love:

At least Alex could fight for herself.

If you like babysitting games tho, I won't judge.

Not really, you couldn't kill her either. Just let her be dragged off to her doom.

Couldn't look up her skirt either. :shifty:

Also, Ravenholm is scarier than anything in Resident Evil 4.

THIS!

Why do you think they even tell you that "we don't go to Ravenholm?"

It's funny that the Sonic devs are getting their balls busted for stopping at part two of promised episodic content when Valve has been a much harsher prick tease about the whole thing.

He probably just faps to her. We're talking about a guy who thinks the pinnacle of gaming is the ability to simulate sex.

So he likely owns Playboy: The Mansion is what you're saying then?

He probably burned several copies off the web. :naughty:

Sony officially debuts God of War IV with the details given so far making the game act as a prequel for the first game and set for release on the PS3.

The game's official title is "God of War Accession" and covers the origins of Kratos before the events of God of War I. While it wasn't specified how far back in the storyline the prequel occurs, it will cover the events that lead to Kartos' family destruction and him becoming a "god killer."

Sony also states more details about the game will arrive on April 30.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...war-ascension/

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Daily Recap:
1) Persona 3 which was released released as a digital PS2 Classic on PSN was recently discovered to have a game saving bug which does not allow any progress to be saved.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/aler...save-game-data

2) Bethesda announces Prey 2 has been delayed due to serious issues involving the game's development which will prevent the game from being released in 2012.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/bethes...his-year/4095/

3) Take it with a grain of salt but a rumor posted by the Official Xbox Magazine (OXM) states Mirror's Edge 2 will be arriving next gen with Kinect support for the next Xbox version.
http://www.oxm.co.uk/40751/mirrors-e...ect-20-rumour/

A God of War prequel sounds like a really bad idea,

I thought the PSP games were prequels. How many prequels do you friggin need?

As many as will sell?

I'd like to see some spinoffs dealing with other pantheons.

Update: Sold my Ipad 2 to gamestop for 220 and bought a laptop. Only lost about 250 bucks. Not bad. :shifty: It's a nice laptop tho.

EA announces they are putting a strong emphasis on "online universes" for all future games they develop.

The idea is for a single game covering multiple platforms to share the same "online universe" in a sense that anything done in one platform benefits the same game owned on a different platform. The games would all share the same online account and data which also means everything is saved on EA's servers than locally.

The examples EA gave involved playing FIFA on mobile devices can unlock achievements for the same game owned on the Xbox 360.

The company already tested this idea earlier in the year by having the iOS app for Mass Effect 3 help unlock and boost stats for the console versions of the game.

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http://kotaku.com/5903724/ea-declare...rse-of-its-own

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Daily Recap:
1) Update to Prey 2 being delayed as a new source states the developer for the game, Human Head, are to blame for the delay due to their unwillingness to work on the game for the past 2 years and an employee strike impacting the company.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...veloper-strike

2) The closed Diablo III bets will become a public beta for this weekend only (April 20-23) with all classes available and a level cap set to 13.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/upda...during-weekend

3) According to Famitsu, the upcoming issue for the magazine hints Capcom will reveal an "unexpected" new game next week on April 26.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ame-next-week/

:rofl:

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Releasing for the 3DS in August. They probably could have thrown a trailer togethor for this.

My roommate pitched a perfect game early this morning and I guess he has to do things now.

A good day for he and Philip Humber.


Is he the first to do it this year? I would have thought someone would have had it by now, since the contest on last year's game ended on the first day.

I don't think he's the first, but they added other steps to make it a tourny sort of deal even after doing it at home.

My brother made 2nd place in a West Palm Beach SoulCalibur V tourny today. Feeling unambitious as far as competitive gaming goes.

Oh, that's cool. Makes the whole competition seem more exciting to me rather than some random draw ending it on day 1 and everyone forgetting about it.