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Dr Disrespect Streams Inside An E3 Bathroom, Gets Banned From Twitch [Update: E3 Badge Revoked]

Today, popular Twitch streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm got suspended from Twitch after streaming from inside a bathroom at the Los Angeles Convention Center during E3. His E3 badge was also revoked. Dr Disrespect is attending E3 and, purportedly for the first time ever, doing a series of IRL streams onsite. On Tuesday afternoon, the…

Epic’s Donald Mustard Says Fortnite‘s Reaper Skin Isn’t Keanu Reeves

Fortnite has an official John Wick skin, but before it arrived, Keanu Reeves seemed to be in the game in the form of a Season 3 battle pass skin called the Reaper. The Reaper wasn’t officially Reeves or his action movie character, but it looked a lot like him. During today’s E3 Coliseum, Epic creative…

Final Fantasy VII Remake Feels Great To Play, But The Project Might Not Be Finished For A While

This afternoon at E3 in Los Angeles, I watched an extended demo of the Final Fantasy VII remake and got my hands on a build for about 15 minutes. Here’s the good news: It could be really special. The bad news: We have no idea when the whole project will be completed. “We can’t reveal…

10 Minutes Of The Legend Of Zelda: Link’s Awakening On Switch

The Switch remake of 1993’s The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is here at E3, and we’ve capped as much footage of it as we can to show you. It’s beautiful, largely faithful to the source material and just a bit stumbly on the framerate, which they can hopefully smooth out by the game’s September…

Nintendo Will Add Friend Matching To Mario Maker 2 Online Play

Last month we reported thatSuper Mario Maker 2 would not allow players to matchmake with friends for online play. The news did not go over well. Now it’s going to reverse course with an update. Speaking during today’s Treehouse Live presentation at E3 2019, the game’s producer Takashi Tezuka said that its developers now plan…

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Will Let You Decorate The Whole World

It’s been so long since Tom Nook last bled us dry and left us to die beneath a mountain of themed furniture inside our mini-mansions, and everybody’s begging for more. Pocket Camp was a nice appetizer, but it’s no substitute for the real thing. Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Switch, coming March 20, has co-op…

Ghost Recon: Breakpoint‘s Survival Elements Keep The Game Tense

I was playing Ghost Recon: Breakpoint as the assault class, Fixit. I had been doing my best to act as a tank for my teammates by getting out front and shooting people with my assault rifle. But my injuries started to add up: First I got nicked in the arm, then the leg. I didn’t…

Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Says Banjo In Smash Was An Easy Deal To Make

Nintendo’s penultimate E3 announcement today involved the addition of a Microsoft-owned character to Smash Bros. This kind of company crossover between two platform holders might seem extraordinary, but Xbox boss Phil Spencer said that it was actually a pretty easy deal. “The ‘how’ is not actually that interesting,” Spencer told me when I asked him…

The remake of Link’s Awakening is getting its own Amiibo, and, well, just look at this guy. So brave.

Hands-On With The Secret-Filled Luigi’s Mansion 3

I played Luigi’s Mansion 3 at an embargoed Nintendo event on Sunday, where I also spoke to some of the game’s developers. It’s already feeling just as good as the great 2013 Nintendo 3DS game Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon As with Dark Moon, Luigi’s Mansion 3 is being developed by Vancouver-based Next Level Games with…

Everything Nintendo Announced At E3 2019

As is tradition, Nintendo finished out the four-day marathon of E3 livestreams with its Direct presentation Tuesday morning. The big news? A full sequel to Zelda: Breath of the Wild. We also got updates on Luigi’s Mansion, Animal Crossing, and a bunch of smaller announcements, plus two exciting new Smash characters. Games From Nintendo The…

Nintendo Teases Breath of the Wild Sequel

Zelda: Breath of the Wild is getting a sequel, Nintendo said today, slipping in a last-minute surprise teaser trailer at the end of its E3 Nintendo Direct. The trailer features Link and Zelda venturing into what appears to be an ancient tomb, possibly under Hyrule Castle, where a long-dormant being awakens. It ends with a…

Animal Crossing Switch Delayed To March 2020

The next big Animal Crossing game is called New Horizons, and it won’t be out until March 20, 2020, Nintendo said today during its E3 Nintendo Direct. Nintendo had previously announced the new Animal Crossing for 2019. There haven’t been a lot of major Switch delays in the past, but this year is already pretty…

Romero Games’ mystery project with Paradox is called Empire of Sin, a mafia strategy game, and it’s coming in 2020. I’ll be seeing it later at E3, so stay tuned for my impressions!

A new No More Heroes is coming in 2020. Travis Touchdown is back to save the world once again, and to talk directly at the screen while doing it.

The Witcher 3 Comes To Switch This Year

Never again will you have to decide between playing The Witcher 3 and leaving the house, because The Witcher 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch. Announced at today’s E3 Nintendo Direct, CD Projekt Red’s excellent RPG The Witcher 3 will come to Nintendo Switch in 2019. The Complete Edition will include the two story DLCs,…

Collection Of Mana Comes To Switch, Including An English Seiken Densetsu 3, And It’s Out Today

Twenty-four years after its release, Seiken Densetsu 3 is coming to the U.S. for the first time, as part of a new Switch package called the Collection of Mana. This newly localized version of the Super Nintendo role-playing game will be called Trials of Mana. And, surprise—the collection is out today Also in the package…

Link’s Awakening Remake Is Out September, Has A New Dungeon-Building Feature

The upcoming Switch remake of Zelda: Link’s Awakening looks like a 1:1 recreation of the original game, except for one big new feature: a dungeon builder called Chamber Dungeons. It’s not quite clear how Chamber Dungeons work, but it appears that you’ll be able to collect levels that you’ve visited in the game’s dungeons and…

The Next Smash Ultimate DLC Is The Hero From Dragon Quest

Smash Ultimate is finally getting a hero: a Dragon Quest hero, that is. Today at E3, Nintendo announced that heroes from the Dragon Quest role-playing games will be playable in Nintendo’s own little Wrestlemania game world this summer: Dragon Quest games have several different protagonists, so in Smash Ultimate, they seem to appear as different…

We’re Liveblogging Nintendo’s E3 2019 Direct

Mike Fahey and Natalie Degraffinried are bringing you all the action from Nintendo’s E3 2019 Direct. You can watch the presentation here or follow along with us below.