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.
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Microsoft: Monday, June 4th, 10am PST
Ubisoft: Monday, June 4th, 3pm PST
Sony: Monday, June 4th, 6pm PST
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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.
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“In a recent interview, Mr. Miyamoto confirmed that a new Pikmin game will be shown at the E3 Expo in June. He believes that anyone who has played Pikmin games in the past will enjoy playing.”
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In a recent interview, Mr. Miyamoto confirmed that a new Super Mario Bros. game for the Wii U system will be shown at this year's E3 Expo," a Nintendo spokesperson said. "We'll have more to announce about our plans for the E3 Expo at a later date.
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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.
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