My annual interviews with Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime are upbeat affairs. He’s always feeling good about the line-up and remains unruffled as I pepper him with as many questions about as many topics as I can squeeze in. If you’ve seen Reggie interviews before—or if you’ve done them—you know what you’re going to…
There’s nothing altogether shocking that Rockstar Games might be looking to hiring another person to edit trailers for them. It’s no confirmation of a new Red Dead, people! But it is fun to see what they’re going for, what with their style of trailer that always uses in-game footage. Trailer Editor Rockstar New York –…
“4J studios has been doing a great job, and we’ll continue to [work with them]” — PlayStation’s Adam Boyes to us at E3, confirming 4J will keep improving Microsoft-owned Minecraft on PlayStation platforms. Boyes wore a Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary pin when he talked to us, but Mario isn’t coming to PlayStation.
I judge an Assassin’s Creed, crazy me, by the overall quality of its world design and the quality of the high quantity of things these games give us to do. I therefore cannot judge the not-yet-released Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, of which I’ve only played for five minutes in the South Hall of the Los Angeles…
“Yeah, we are making Vita games, but it’s not like we’re making another Killzone Mercenary.” — Sony’s had of game studios Shuhei Yoshida to us at E3, saying new Sony first-party Vita game will likely be digital and cross-platform. “From a first-party standpoint our focus is still on PS4. But we still love Vita.”
The smaller version of Nintendo’s more powerful New 3DS line of handhelds may finally make it to North America, thanks to popular demand. At least that’s what we think Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime was hinting to me when we discussed Nintendo’s most capable handheld at E3. “So we’ve got nothing to announce here,”…
Adam Boyes, head of third-party developer relations at PlayStation, told me at E3 that he’s known about Square’s Final Fantasy VII remake for a year. It was a fun secret to keep. “Our publishers take us through their slates,” he said, recalling a meeting with Square from earlier last year. “When he said ‘FFVII remake’,…
The PlayStation-Activision deal for the next Call of Duty will grant PlayStation owners 30 days of exclusivity to DLC before it comes to other platforms, Sony’s Adam Boyes told us at E3. That’s across the board, including PC, so basically this is the old Xbox CoD deal with Sony swapped in.
That cool-looking woman-vs.-robot-dinosaur game that Sony unveiled at their PlayStation press conference, Horizon: Zero Dawn, has been in development at Guerilla Games for four years. Guerilla, which makes Killzone, is a two-team studio now, Sony games boss Shuhei Yoshida told us at E3 this week.
“Write something nice,” David Jaffe said to me as I started playing Drawn To Death, his team’s forthcoming free-to-play competitive multiplayer game for PS4. “I can’t just write about it,” I told him. “I want people to see this.” I had already seen Drawn To Death’s unusual pen-sketches-in-a-notebook art style in videos months ago, but…
Snapping on Xbox One is moving to the left with the system’s new user interface update later this year. Based on user feedback, Microsoft told us at E3.
E3 2015’s top head-scratcher so far: Why would Nintendo bring back their dormant Metroid franchise, a series known for fairly quiet, careful solo sci-fi exploration, with a multiplayer shooter that’s also a sports game? Good thing I had a half hour with the game’s producer to find out. Meet Kensuke Tanabe, veteran producer and designer…
The Last Guardian, announced in 2009 for PS3 and shown again to shocked PlayStation fans at E3 yesterday, became a PS4 game in 2012. So explained Sony’s head of game development, Shuhei Yoshida, as we finally chatted about what has been happening with Sony’s game about a boy and his giant animal friend. The game…
The new Star Fox game for Wii U is an unusual mix of old and new, a game that sometimes feels like a remake and other times like a radical experiment. The game’s developers at Nintendo and—surprise—Platinum recently broke it all down for me. Despite the “zero” in the name, Star Fox Zero does not…
Nintendo’s two Super Mario RPG series are mashing up in early 2016 in a game called Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam A new trailer from Nintendo showed a game that looks like it takes place in the world of Mario & Luigi games, with little sprite characters, one that has been visited by a flat…
Following a more than five-year drought since the last Metroid game, Nintendo is bringing back their space adventure franchise with what looks to be a multiplayer-centric first-person game that, at least from its debut trailer, doesn’t feature much (or any?) of Samus Aran. The game is called Metroid Prime Federation Force. The trailer showed three…
You wanted surprises from Nintendo at E3. Here’s one: The Legend of Zelda: Tri-Force Heroes, announced by Nintendo today at E3. It harkens back to Zelda co-op games like Four Swords Adventures, but this time for three players. The 3DS game is played from an overhead perspective like classic Zelda games and is slated for…
There are no Digimon that are also Pokémon and no Thundercats that hang out with He-Man, but there will be two new Amiibos this year that also work as Skylanders. Nintendo and Activision showed off the hybrid figurines during Nintendo’s Digital Event today. The figures will be compatible with this year’s Skylanders SuperChargers game on…
Shot by Evan Narcisse at today’s Xbox E3 press conference.
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