Woo. That was a frustrating little head-cold. But now I’m back on my feet, and I have a whole notebook full of scrawled notes and shorthand, which is unfortunate because I don’t read shorthand. Oh, wait… yeah, that was just a coffee stain. Fortunately, it didn’t seep through to the beautiful pages I reserved for our sit-down with director Hajime Tabata and artistic director Isamu Kamikokuryo. You might know them as the creative forces behind Square Enix’s The Third Birthday, the long-awaited next chapter in the Parasite Eve saga. If you don’t, you do now. They answered questions!
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We got some hands-on time with Fallout New Vegas, as each of us applied our respective talents to various aspects of the game: Jordan did the talking, Derek did the looting, and I smacked a dude with a five-iron. Obsidian’s Chris Avellone was on hand to answer questions about things we didn’t have time to test.
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The new Pokemon has a female professor. The world is ending.
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Our west coast adventure concluded, we return to bring you yet more goodies straight from Nintendo’s E3 offerings. In this update: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn and Dragon Quest IX.
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I sat down with Jason Fader, technical producer for Fallout New Vegas to ask him some questions about the upcoming game.
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In the closing hours of E3, Roku and I got a close look at a live demo of the mythical Deus Ex: Human Revolution. For this ardent Deus Ex fan, what followed would answer a lot – and I do mean a lot – of questions, and raise almost as many. Fair warning: for a pre-alpha version, the game looked remarkably intact, so this impression may spoil some of the full game.
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More new screens out of E3, featuring, Atelier Rorona, Trinity: Souls of Zill O’ll, Fable III, and Trinity Universe.
Oh and don’t worry, Slayer’s not dead. I promise I didn’t kill him with an overload of Nintendo E3 media yesterday or anything like that.
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If Nintendo wants me to buy Ocarina of Time again they’ll insert a dating sim option with Malon.
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Square Enix’s support of the iPhone continues unabated, as the company announces the release of two classic games for the App Store. The first, Final Fantasy Tactics, is actually a release of the updated PSP version, and has a projected release date of September 15th. The second is Secret of Mana, the classic multiplayer Super NES title, which unfortunately has no release date as of yet.
John Boske and I had the pleasure of being invited to a round table interview with Tetsuya Nomura about the upcoming Kingdom Hearts games.
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Even at E3, F.O.E. Atlus formally announced a North American release for Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City today. The game is due out September 21, and the official site is available here.
Those of you who know of the tangentally related IOSYS flash are hearing it in your heads right about now. Those who haven’t, well, you got a few minutes?
THQ doesn’t publish RPGs. Thus, I can accept this XBox 360 I just won at their booth with no question to my jounalistic integrity. Here’s a super-cute Final Fantasy game.
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In a move sure to surprise some of the lawyers involved with the controversy surrounding this game, Interplay announced that Fallout Online will be accepting Beta applications starting immediately. Head on over to the game’s official site and take a look.
Fallout Online has been at the center of a legal dispute between Interplay and Bethseda for a while now, with suits and countersuits calling the eventual release of the game into question. In fact, Interplay previously announced that it would be attempting a Beta in 2012, making this announcement all the more surprising.
Following up on the DLC train, BioWare announced the release of some new content for Dragon Age: Origins. Called Leliana’s Song, it covers the story of a young Bard named Leliana and her mentor as they get involved in some nasty underworld schemes. The DLC includes fully voice acted cinema sequences, and a vaguely defined reward that will transfer to your Awakening and Origins campaigns.
Leliana’s Song will be available July 6th, and will cost around about $7.
Sitting here in the E3 media lounge, chicken caesar wrap on my lap, writing this post on my DSiXL. I call it convergence.
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There were press conferences! And WE WERE THERE, MAN. WE WERE THERE. In ur briefings, eatin ur croissants and BBQ tacoz. Then we all went up to the beautiful RandomNPC studios in sunny Los Angeles, California (read: our hotel room) and, in various states of sleep-deprivation, yammered on about the things we saw.
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Following on the heels of the announcement of a new Zelda game for the Wii, Nintendo has announced via its Twitter feed that it will have company on the 3DS in the form of a remake of The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time.
Nintendo also put forth the names of a couple of first and third-party titles that will be appearing on their new handheld, including Kingdom Hearts and Paper Mario. Unfortunately, none of these titles received much more than a name drop, so stay tuned for updates as they become available.
Apparently eager to learn from last year’s lackluster E3 conference, Nintendo started off its show with quite the fan-pleaser: a new Legend of Zelda game. Called The Legend of Zelda: The Skyward Sword, Nintendo brought out Shigeru Miyamoto to demonstrate how the controls had been streamlined since Twilight Princess, and how the game used the Wii Motion Plus accessory. He also showed off a couple new items, including a whip, and an item called the Spying Beetle, which allows players to see ahead in an area.
The Legend of Zelda: The Skyward Sword will be available for purchase sometime in 2011.
In a move sure to please fans of the series, Nintendo revealed a release date and a subtitle for the upcoming DS continuation of the Golden Sun series. Now known as Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, the game will be on store shelves this holiday season, though no more exact date was given.
Today, BioWare announced a couple of new toys for both the PC and Xbox360 versions of Mass Effect 2. The first is a 90-minute demo, featuring the opening cinema and mission of the game, and will allow players to save the progress they make on the demo for use on the full game.
The second, and probably more interesting announcement, is that new DLC will be available for the game come tomorrow. Called Overlord, it adds five new areas to the game, as well as two new achievements. There wasn’t much in the way of further details, but the content will put players back 560 points, either in Microsoft or Bioware’s Internet Funbucks, depending on which platform you’re on.
