Aug
11

Gold Classic Controller Pro

Goldeneye 007 Wii will be available as a bundle with a golden classic controller pro when it is released this fall.
Golden Nintendo Wii Classic Controller Pro

Jun
15

Project Sora / Kid Icarus Uprising

Project Sora was created to design a game specifically for the Nintendo 3Ds.

Graphics are extremely impressive. The Nintendo 3DS must have a much more powerful processor than the Nintendo DS. Kid Icarus Uprising is coming soon.

Your can more easily judge the distance between yourself and your enemies with the 3D graphics.

Jun
15

Nintendo 3DS

Update: Official Nintendo 3DS Specs

The Nintendo 3DS requires no 3D glasses.

Soturo Iwata shows of the Nintendo 3DS.

Touch Screen, D Pad, and Analog Controller!

Wide angle upper screen, Square lower screen. 3.5″ widescreen upper screen.

Full 3D graphics without the need for polarized glasses.

You can adjust the 3D depth with a slider next to the upper screen.

Touch and 3D do not mix well, so the touch screen on the bottom is not 3D.

The 3D screen allows you to judge the distance between your character and your enemies.

Launch Titles:

  • Kingdom Hearts
  • Saints Row
  • Madden NFL
  • Resident Evil
  • Batman
  • Assassins Creed
  • Ridge Racer

Attendees at the Nokia theatre get to play the Nintendo 3DS that have been tethered to cute girls. Why didn’t you invite me Nintendo?

Jun
15

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Retro studios, creators of the latest crop of Metroid games have been given the keys to a new side scrolling Donkey Kong game for the Nintendo Wii!

The new Donkey Kong game seems to use the New Super Mario game engine. The game comes out this holiday season! I was hoping for a new 3D Donkey Kong, but this might tide me over for a while!

Jun
15

Metroid: Other M

Trailer during presentation. Show’s a beautiful environment that is strangely empty feeling… no massive quantities of enemies attacking Samus. In stores August 31, 2010.

Jun
15

Goldeneye 007 Wii

Goldeneye 007 for Wii with multiplayer and point and shoot controls coming soon!

Jun
15

Kirby’s Epic Yarn

Yarn based game. The world is completely yarn based. Control the game / change the world by making stitches.

Jun
15

Disney Epic Mickey

Set in 80 years of Disneyland’s wasteland of rejected characters and released characters and lands. Mickey mouse is the hero who travels around the world.

Wasteland demoed during presentation.

Mickey spews green slime from his magic wand. Paint and paint thinner is available to paint or erase objects. Players can change the world to save it. Depending on how you change the world you will be told different things by characters in the world.

The game was playable at E3 convention.

Travel zones are side scrolling adventures based on Disney cartoons and give access between worlds.

Jun
15

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword!

[update] During the closed doors Nintendo developers meeting at this year’s E3 2010 Shiguru Miyamoto revealed some details about the zelda artwork leaked at E3 2009

WARNING Spoilers below!

Skyward Sword Controls

Imagine holding a sword and shield

Wii Remote w/ motion plus

  • A: Step / Set bomb down
  • B: Item Menu / Pull out bomb
  • - : Jump while locked
  • + : Read Journal
  • D-pad Down = Center

Nunchuck

  • Shake to pull out shield
  • rotate to control shield position.
  • Shake to perform shield bash.
  • Z: Lock on
  • C: ?

Link skydives

Hold sword up to charge up sword with power from heaven.

Can run and climb up cliffs / walls

Typically items are assigned to a button in Zelda games, Skyward sword is designed around the idea that all of your items are in your pocket so you press b to enter your pocket then you point your remote to choose your item with a round rubber-band style menu.

You can not only cut the grass, but also trees in the new game.

New Weapons

  • Flying Beetle: Shoot-able controllable flying beetle that allows you to pick up items from a distance.
  • Whip: in the game, you whip the remote to use.

Graphics

Cartoon style graphics w/ more detailed link, enemies and environments.

Playable at E3 on the showfloor

Skyward Sword is coming out next year 2011 :(

Jun
2

Live Stream of Nintendo’s E3 Conference!

At this year’s E3 event Nintendo will be live streaming their official conference for all to watch!

Be there Tuesday, June 15th 9:00am Pacific (Los Angeles) time at http://e3.nintendo.com/

Lets all hope they went with the uber deluxe OMGWTFBBQ bandwidth package.

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