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Square Enix’s E3 press conference will now take place at 6pm UK time (10am LA time) to avoid a clash with Nintendo. The press event was due to take place an hour earlier, but that clashes with Nintendo’s digital event, which takes place at 5pm. There is a large number …
Read More »Nintendo World Championships return for E3 2015
The Nintendo World Championships – last held in 1990 – will be making a comeback at E3 2015, Nintendo of America has announced. The company revealed the news as part of its E3 plans. Nintendo fans can compete for a spot in the Championships on May 30th at select Best …
Read More »Iwata reiterates Nintendo NX no-show at E3
Nintendo remains adamant that it will not be announcing any news about the in-development NX console at E3 next month. The message is no different to that given by boss Satoru Iwata when the machine was first announced, when he said that we shouldn’t expect any more information until 2016. …
Read More »Guillermo del Toro’s production company rumoured to have produced Fallout 4 short
The evidence of a potential Fallout 4 unveiling at E3 2015 next month is growing. Videogamer reports that an online CV dug up on LinkedIn suggests that Guillermo del Toro’s production company Mirada Studios has been making a cinematic trailer for Bethesda’s still unannounced title. The artist in question worked …
Read More »PC gaming finally gets its own E3 press conference
PlayStation and Microsoft (and possibly Nintendo?) will this year be joined on the E3 stage by a conference dedicated solely to PC gaming. AMD has teamed up with PC Gamer to host the PC Gaming Show on June 16th, bringing with it speakers including Dean Hall and Cliff Bleszinski as …
Read More »Microsoft promises ‘surprises’ and ‘something different’ at this year’s E3
This year’s E3 will offer something a little different from the norm from Microsoft and Xbox, US marketing boss Aaron Greenberg has said. "Expect a lot of surprises," Greenberg told The Inner Circle Podcast, as reported by GameSpot. "We have some ideas to do some things different at E3 this …
Read More »Bethesda to host first ever E3 press conference
For the first time in the vent’s history, this year’s E3 will host a press conference from Bethesda. The immediate conclusion? Fallout 4. Although of course the studio has a number of other projects on the go, including the new Doom and the console version of The Elder Scrolls Online, …
Read More »E3 2015 dated for June 16th
Next year's expo could be the last at the Convention Center
Read More »E3 2015 back in LA June 16-18
E3 will return to the Los Angeles Convention Center in 2015, with the ESA announcing the expo will run June 16th-18th. The dates fall in line with the usual Tuesday-Thursday run for the show floor, meaning Monday June 15th will almost certainly be the big press briefing day for the …
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