Konami's E3 "conference" is tomorrow night?!?!?!?!??!?!?! 3am tomorrow night after the GTTV E3 special. Which means it is taped again.

aspro said:

It'll be another boring one. No one can recreate 2010. It was lightning in a bottle.

Yup, greatest E3 conference of all time.

Dvader said:

Have you guys seen this shit?

That is the actual cover.

It looks like a crappy billboard poster for a flea market.

Foolz said:

Dvader said:

So I am in a small town in Texas right now. The guy at the front desk of the motel I am staying at looked at my drivers license and said "you are a long away from home."  I know that is mostly a benign statement but in every single movie or show I have seen, after someone says that the person far away from home dies horribly.

Be on the lookout for chainsaws.

Some of the sweetest most hospitable and kind people said that to me three years ago when I was road-tripping in the Deep South and Southeast of the US.  But yeah folk in backwater Texas places have a reputation that they "don't take kindly to yer kind" ... Stereotypes aside, enjoy Texas!

edgecrusher said:

Dvader said:

Have you guys seen this shit?

That is the actual cover.

It looks like a crappy billboard poster for a flea market.

I bought the original edition a few days ago even though I knew this was coming out with bonus content just so I could avoid that disgraceful cover.

Mario Tennis arrived yesterday in the post ... and I already got blisters on my thumbs.

Game is pretty sweet, starts off easy but it's already got quite challenging.  I expect it will be best against human opponents.  Is anyone here at the VGP even considering getting it?  I have three presonal friends here with 3DSs all of whom have fond memories of multiplayer Mario Tennis on the gamecube.  I will try to tempt them into getting it

So people will get to play the events during emergence day?

I think I should buy at least the first couple games now that they're cheap enough. I beat the first one during a rental and tried to do the same with the second but got sidetracked.

gamingeek said:

Now we are near E3 something has been bothering me.

Why the secrecy? In this industry why do developers and publishers feel the need to hide what games they are working on?

If you are working on a game, why not just say so instead of all this clandestine bullshit? You don't see the same thing with movies, secret hidden development that no one knows about for years or whatever. You can let people know what you are working on before having an official reveal or previews surely?

Well there's a couple factors:

• Waiting until E3 can increase development time and make for a better reveal
• E3 = Hype. Putting your game in the middle of a sizzle reel in front of already excited gamers is going to guarantee you a lot of free press.
• It makes E3 more like Christmas

robio said:

I swear to god, if Sega attempts to fuck me over and not release Anarchy Reigns I will go all kinds of Super Saiyan Dark Robio on their ass. No internet message board will be safe!!!!  Doesn't sound threatening, but it totally is.

We Are Legion.

robio said:

I think the ultimate reason comes down to promotion and marketing. When movie news is released it gets mentioned all over the place; entertainment magazines, tv programs, news, newspapers, websites, etc. Games news and announcements have a much more limited number of media outlets, and therefore competition for that space is much higher. They need to have the biggest platform available to announce a game when extra eyeballs are watching (ex: E3), or they have to measure it up at a time when their announcement won't get interrupted by other big announcements

Plus you have to remember that not every project that gets started gets finished. Don,t you think Capcom would love to go back to last year and not make any mention of the now cqncelled Megaman Legends3/MMO or whatever that thing was that they pulled the plug on at a very early stage?

It seems that there are far too many people hiding games and I would rather hear about cancelled games that not. E3 is just one event, there are so many other times of the year where you could announce something, this hyper active secrecy and NDAs is overkill. You get this asinine obvious hints for months then finally they announce a game you heard about weeks or months before anyway.

NWR said:

3DS Patent Covers Vibrating Stylus, New Kinds of Control

Nintendo's filed a patent for a new kind of input on 3DS — one that requires no physical contact with the console at all.

The application uses the 3DS console's inner-facing camera along with a stylus to manipulate 3D images on the top screen without the need for buttons, touch screen or moving the console.




The inward-facing camera detects a 'marker' applied to the end of a stylus. The 3DS can calculate the marker's position in 3D space based on its size and position, using that information to manipulate an item on the top screen. By moving the stylus further away, the object could appear to 'come out' of the screen; move the stylus nearer and the object would appear to move deeper into the 3D space.




It wouldn't be limited to the inner camera either — the patent shows you could use the same stylus-marker combination to move items behind the machine, rather like moving the cards around in the system's existing Augmented Reality software only with far more flexibility.




The patent also refers to a new kind of stylus with a vibration function, giving you physical feedback when you interact with the virtual items, as well as a marker allowing it to be tracked by the 3DS camera. You wouldn't need this stylus though — the patent also shows the system works if you put the marker on your finger.




This isn't the first time Nintendo's experimented with camera-based motion control in a portable console — DSiWare has several titles available, from WarioWare Snapped! to Looksley's Line Up — but this is far more advanced. Being able to manipulate graphics on the top screen using just the stylus's position certainly sounds good, and we can see it being used well in The Legend of Zelda or Professor Layton.

Okay this is kinda cool^

And this is the list of Wii U games we know about:

Confirmed:



- Pikmin 3


- New Super Mario Bros.


- Assassin's Creed III


- Ghost Recon Online


- Killer Freaks from Outerspace


- Rayman Legends


- Aliens Colonial Marines


- Darksiders II


- Tekken worktitle


- Ninja Gaiden III Razor's Edge


- Batman Arkham City


- Injustice: Gods Among Us


- DiRT


- F1 Racing


- NBA 2K 13


- Project C.A.R.S.


- Dragon Quest X



Rumored/Hinted at



- Call of Duty Black Ops II


- Sonic & Sega Allstar Racing Transformed


- Castlevania LoS 2


- Splinter Cell Blacklist


- Ridge Racer


- James Bond 007 Legends


- Capcom game