Nintendo’s Top 10 E3 Spotlight Moments
What the initial “Nintendo Spotlight E3 2017” presentation lacked in runtime, it more than made up for in pleasant surprises.
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Nintendo’s Top 10 E3 2016 Moments
After painstakingly surveying Nintendo’s E3 output—all of which is available via the official YouTube channel—I picked the following moments as the company’s best of show.
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LeVar Burton Kills It in ‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’ Reveal
From the moment the opening viewscreen chimes sounded, I knew I was about to see something special. ‘Star Trek’ fans: don’t miss this video!
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Final Fantasy VII Remake Announced
The Final Fantasy franchise has been one of the most successful Japanese Role Playing Games (JRPG’s) of all time. The most celebrated of that series is Final Fantasy VII, and for the first time in years it looks like it will finally get a fresh shot of Mako energy with a full-HD remake for the PlayStation 4.
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Nintendo Bets Big on Fan Creativity
This September, Nintendo brings ‘Super Mario Maker ‘ and ‘Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer’ to the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. Fellow gamers, are you ready to flex your creativity? Are you ready to get weird?!
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E3: First Look at ‘Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer’
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer features many exciting UI improvements and fun new ways to interact with your favorite characters.
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E3: Hands On With ‘Super Mario Maker’
Anyone who has daydreamed of becoming a game designer can make that wish come true in Super Mario Maker, coming exclusively to Wii U.
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Get Your Pip-Boy Ready, ‘Fallout 4’ Is Coming
Bethesda Game Studios is the undisputed master of open-world gaming. The ‘Fallout’ series was always my favorite of the Bethesda sandboxes, and today, the company finally announced ‘Fallout 4’ with a stunning new trailer.
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Post-E3 Pokémon Round-up
Nintendo really gave the fans what they wanted at E3 2014, including tons of new information concerning Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
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The Best Family Games at E3 2014
Here’s a quick roundup of some of the best video games coming out soon for families and kids featured at this year’s E3.
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E3’s Trap Team Skylanders and Villains Caught on Camera
As we wait for doors to open at E3 in LA, here is an in depth look at what will be on show for Skylanders Trap Team — from some early access we had.
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Buzzer Beak is Next Skylanders Trap Team Villain
With E3 only a day away from opening its doors, I was excited to get an exclusive hands-on with a new Trap Team villain. Buzzer Beak is an Air villain that offers impressive flying and swooping attacks.
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Decoding E3 For Families
I’m often asked what this yearly event is that I keep jetting off to, and not just by my kids. To that end I got a colleague to put together a family guide to E3 along with our expectations about what to look out for this year.
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Watch the E3 Gameplay Trailer
The Elder Scrolls Online is definitely my most anticipated game since Skyrim and one that I expect to consume a great deal of my time. Details are still somewhat scarce, but Bethesda keeps teasing us with little tidbits of info.
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Skylanders Swap Force Pre-E3 News and Rumour Round Up
A Skylanders Swap Force update that rounds up the rumors and goes into some detail about how the new Swap Force figures are upgraded.
Continue ReadingThe FPS Is Dead: The Unfinished Swan Is a First-Person Painter
There’s an intriguing story lurking behind one game I saw at E3 this year, The Unfinished Swan. Beyond the emotive tale of the game itself, that of an orphaned boy losing an unfinished painting his mother left him, is the …
Continue ReadingFGTV: Wii U Aims to Balance Family Friendly NintendoLand Alongside Hardcore Zombie U
Having offered thoughts on Microsoft’s and Sony’s press conference, here’s the family gaming lowdown on Nintendo from Family Gamer TV.
Continue ReadingFGTV: Sony’s E3 Harry Potter Bombshell
In many ways Sony’s press conference couldn’t have been more different from Microsoft’s E3 event, but at the same time it was very similar. Although kicked off in festival atmosphere with free food and drink, like the Xbox conference it …
Continue ReadingTransformers: Fall of Cybertron E3 Coverage
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron by High Moon Studios builds on the success of War for Cybertron with improved graphics and game play. I got some time behind a controller at Activision’s Pre-E3 event in Los Angeles last month and I …
Continue ReadingFGTV: Microsoft’s Broad New Xbox Horizons Unveiled at E3 Press Conference
Some might say that Microsoft’s press conference was predictable, or lacked the excitement and surprises of previous years, but that is to miss the genius of its iterative approach to advancing the Xbox 360. What started as a game console …
Continue ReadingNintendo Gets Direct About Wii U
Those too engrossed in weekend parental duties to spend a dedicated half-hour engaged in pre-E3 console hype may have missed yesterday’s Nintendo Direct video reveal highlighting some of the finer points of the Wii U’s controller and user interface. Therein …
Continue ReadingNine 3DS Games That Impressed at E3
With the Wii U announcement, you could be forgiven for overlooking the 3DS games at E3. I’ll admit, it wasn’t until I went back through my list that I realized how many interesting games are coming up for the new …
Continue ReadingE3 For Families: Sony Apologizes, Puts on a Show
The week after E3, I finally had time to pick through my Sony press conference notes in detail. What I came away with was the feeling that this was a company who more than ever knew they needed to work …
Continue ReadingE3 For Families: Nintendo’s Wii U
Nintendo had a big secret to share at E3. Strangely though, now that we all know about the Wii U it feels like there is just as much we still don’t know. To join the dots, I’ve drawn together what …
Continue ReadingE3 For Families: Microsoft Announces Family-Friendly Fare
Now the dust is starting to settle on the big announcements from E3, I’ve started to pick my way through the marketing spin and actual reality — and found there still remains plenty to be excited about for family gamers. …
Continue ReadingReview: OnLive — The What, Why and Who of Gaming in the Cloud
I’m sure you have all heard of cloud gaming by now. Cloud gaming is the “new gaming” that allows you to connect (via a high speed internet connection) to a remote server that is hosting the game data. This enables …
Continue Reading20 More Things We Want to See at E3 (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
Having scoured the internet for my 30 anticipated games of E3 the other week I was inundated with titles I had missed. As well as showing me how much more valuable my social-graph is than a simple Google search, it …
Continue Reading20 More Things We Want to See at E3
Having scoured the internet for my 30 anticipated games of E3 the other week I was inundated with titles I had missed. As well as showing me how much more valuable my social-graph is than a simple Google search, it …
Continue Reading30 Things We Want to See at E3
One of the biggest problems with events like E3 is the sheer volume of information available. If all the headlines are to be believed there are enough video-gaming exclusives over the week to last the rest of the year. Of …
Continue ReadingHey, Nintendo: What We’d Like to See From the Wii 2
The Nintendo Wii 2 will no doubt headline some surprising technology, but as with the 3DS its consolidation of interactions, connectivity and visual technology will be the more important story. The original Wii was announced to a slightly perplexed world …
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