As of today, Nintendo has announced a Mini NES micro console, releasing on November 11th and coming bundled with 30 games and a controller. America has a price of around $60, so barring the pound falling any further, I’d have wagered a £40-50 price tag.
All day I’ve been trying to be calm. Just try and step away and let this whole miserable day happen. Try and stay collected and approach this with restraint. Letting the people who voted leave have their moment, see how things evolve in the day ahead.
But I can’t. Everything I see is so utterly frustrating. So many people seem to have fundamentally misunderstood what this referendum was about.
So Ubisoft then.
Well, No Assassin’s Creed this year. Doesn’t mean no teaser, but don’t expect any gameplay. The same can be assumed for Far cry as well.
South Park, The Fractured But Whole, For Honour and Ghost Recon: WIldlands are all but guaranteed to be getting release dates and big features, I would also expect another look at the Division expansion.
Maybe we will see Watch Dogs 2. But I want to hope they’re keeping that all to its little announcement ceremony before E3 proper. Because otherwise it’s just likely to give people snark to work with.
And there’s always the persistent hope that Beyond Good and Evil 2 and Prince of Persia will appear.
Bethesda had their first conference last year, and it was easily one of the most impressive. But that was largely due to the presence of Doom and the hype for Fallout 4. Now, can they match up?
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Pre-E3 Pre Amble.
Not technically going with a conference this year, EA is hosting EA Play Events in Los Angeles and London, but also broadcasting their new trailers in a timed message around about the same moment.
So nothing really changed then for the majority of the audience watching at home.
All of the following times are UK. As is my tradition, recaps and reactions are going to be going up shortly after each one is completed.
So E3 this year has begun early, with multiple new titles all being unveiled in the weeks prior to the event. The thinking behind all of this is that the games won’t be lost in the crush of the main conferences, or get overshadowed by bigger, more entertaining announcements. So in that respect, let’s look at this crush of games that all hit at once and that I’m gonna lump together.
Directly to you. Through me.
So shall we try that again? No Pokemon to steal the show this time.
Nintendo Direct for the 3rd of March 2016, covering all the games of spring and summer. Presumably this will be taking us right up to E3 and the NX announcement.
Speaking of which, no news here. They’re holding off on that, even more so than expected. This does mean that if we don’t hear too much about Zelda WiiU here, I’ll be putting more faith in those rumours about the NX and the double platform launch.
So today, 26th February, Nintendo will be gracing us with the second Nintendo Direct of the year. As the first focussed only on Smash Bros, the second will similarly be an all Pokemon agenda.
So what can we expect?
Superhero TV shows have some identity issues. Constantly being asked to prove they’re mature and meaningful, as a genre, it looks like modern shows want to follow the trend of their big screen family.
Jessica Jones is looking dark and filled with distressing plotlines, Daredevil is filled to the brim with brutal fight scenes, Arrow has more angst going on than most Young Adult shelves in the bookstore. The Flash is probably the only one that’s consistently filled with optimistic characters and hope, but as a spin off from Arrow, it’s still tied in on that CW angst tinged universe.
Supergirl is a breath of fresh air. A show that is so earnest, so sincere and positive, that it’s easy to overlook the flaws which run through it. This is a show that’s coming through the tradition of The adventures of Lois and Clark on television, (Dean Cain even playing Kara’s adoptive father) and silver age heroes of comics. It’s goofy and silly, and entirely aware that it is about a woman who can fly, shoot beams out of her eyes and throw cars around.
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