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That’s One Way To Start Working On Zelda

Super Mario Odyssey producer Yoshiaki Koizumi held an AMA on the Nintendo Switch Reddit today. He answered questions about the game, its music and even hot dogs (not a sandwich), but the most interesting response came when he was asked how he got into game design.

Ashly Burch ‘Heartbroken’ She Won’t Play Chloe In Life Is Strange Prequel

As the longest strike in Screen Actors Guild history chugs on, video game voice actors are making painful career sacrifices to show solidarity with their union. 234 days into the strike, after Microsoft announced Life Is Strange: Before The Storm, fans immediately sussed out that award-winning voice actress and SAG-AFTRA member Ashly Burch will not…

Tim Rogers is back! Today in LA, our newest video producer gives you a tour of the Xbox E3 booth, the Ubisoft E3 booth, and the Square Enix booth. More to come later today.

Women Play Video Games

Hello! I’ve come here today to explain something that apparently still needs explaining: Women play video games. I know, it’s a radical concept. (As plenty of you are doubtless aware, it is not a radical concept.) Yet here in the year 2017, it’s apparently still really easy to assume that despite the fact that A)…

I Can’t Stop Listening To The Mario Odyssey Theme Song

Metroid Prime 4? Shadow of the Colossus? I don’t know. For my money, the best thing announced at E3 is the Super Mario Odyssey theme song. You heard an abbreviated version of it during the Super Mario Odyssey trailer: a big brass band-backed swing vocal performance, a woman belting out earnest lines about jumping and…

Attack on Titan Inspired Action Game Looks Dope

Extinction is a fast-paced game where you parkour and maneuver through the air, trying to dismember giants with your blade. Instead of titans, you’ve got ogres. Naturally, these beasts hate humans and you’re the only thing standing in their way. Developer Derek Neal gives us a short walkthrough of some pre-alpha extinction footage below. While…

The New Spider-Man Game Won’t Let You Kill Anybody

This year’s Sony E3 conference closed on an impressive demo of Insomniac’s upcoming open-world Spider-Man game. I checked out an alternate playthrough and on the show floor, and while creative director Bryan Intihar was tight-lipped when it came to specifics, he did give me a handful of interesting tidbits. Spider-Man will never kill anybody You…

Seen at E3: this screenshot from Fire Emblem Warriors, which asks you to defeat the Cavaliers. Sounds eerily familiar

The Coolest New Gaming Gear Of E3 2017

E3 isn’t just about new games. It’s also about new headsets, keyboards, mice, controllers, speakers and storage solutions. Let’s take a look at some of the coolest new hardware announced during the show. LucidSound — LS15X Xbox One In-Ear Contour Gaming Headset The LucidSound folks have a bunch of new headsets for E3, including a…

The New Super Mario Odyssey Trailer Has Me Messed Up, Man

In the next big Mario game, our favorite plumber has a special hat. This hat allows Mario to take over the bodies of other creatures and objects. The more I think about the implications of this ability, the more I start to question the fabric of reality, if not Mario’s own existence. Here’s the trailer,…

Forty Minutes Of Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Shown off during Nintendo’s Treehouse stream yesterday, here’s a solid chunk of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, which looks great and is hopefully more up my alley than the first game. (I imagine the portability will help.) I’ll be talking to the developers of Xenoblade 2 tomorrow here at E3, so let me know what questions you…

Battlegrounds Makes Fan-Made Zombie Mode Official

Normally in Battlegrounds, players crouch behind bathroom doors, waiting to shoot whomever bursts in. A few weeks ago, fans riffed on that theme with Battlegrounds’ zombie mode, where instead of hiding in crevices, players gun down hordes of ravenous player-controlled zombies. It was aninstant successin the community and on Twitch. Yesterday, Battlegrounds devs announced that…

Nearly 20 Minutes of The Life Is Strange Prequel In Action

The first gameplay footage from Life Is Strange: Before The Storm tries hard to recapture the drama from the original game. If you want to ruin something, keep adding to it: this is true of cakes, outfits and most of all fiction. Chloe Price in the original Life Is Strange had a lot of secrets—it…

After a somewhat sleepy show floor in 2016, E3 is very crowded this year, maybe due to the thousands of tickets sold to the public, maybe due to bad booth design. The event opened 15 minutes early on Tuesday to reduce the crush. That’s the Nintendo booth in the photo. A rep told us to…

Lego Worlds Rockets Into Space Next Month

Now that the game save-eating bug issues seem to be behind us, it’s time for Lego Worlds to do happier things, like announcing a Switch version for the fall and a content expansion that explores one of the oldest and most beloved themes in the toy line’s history, Lego Space. Lego’s been transporting children of…

The New God of War Might Finally Make Kratos Interesting

Sony may have shown more of the new God Of War at their press conference Monday, but there’s still a lot they haven’t explained about the game. A few things are clear: Kratos is a dad, and the focus had shifted from Greek mythology to Norse myth. I sat down with the game’s director Cory…

New Gran Turismo Racing Wheel Only Costs $800

Thrustmaster’s forthcoming T-GT high-end racing that will be available when Gran Turismo Sport hits later this fall. It will be expensive. According to 4Gamer, GT Planet and TjrSim, the wheel is priced at US＄799.99 plus tax. You get the wheel set up, a three-pedal set, and the power supply that looks like a turbo charger.…

Metal Gear Survive has been delayed until 2018. According to Polygon, a Konami spokesperson said it was “pushed back a few months” so the title could get extra polishing before being released.

Here’s PES 2018′s E3 trailer. Interesting that Konami would use so much raw gameplay in the clip, but when you had the superior on-field offering last year, I guess that’s what you want to sell.

Splatoon 2‘s Salmon Run Is A Fun Horde Mode

I splatted and swam through a quick session of Splatoon 2‘s new co-op mode today. I played in a quartet, and this might be how I play Splatoon multiplayer when the sequel launches in July. Salmon Run puts 2-4 players on a platform out in the middle of dangerous waters. Players work as a team…