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Best Buy Nintendo Experience E3 2013

Friday, June 14th, 2013

We attended the Nintendo Experience event at our local Best Buy yesterday and took a few videos/pictures for you to show you what it’s all about.  Basically, you come and schedule a time with one of the games with a Nintendo rep and then collect yourself some swag of varying impressiveness (from cool Luigi hats and coins given only to the first couple people to show up down to brochures, Mario Kart flags, and Wii U/Animal Crossing New Leaf pins).  Check after the jump for more videos and pictures!

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E3 2013 Day #2 Summary

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

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Nintendo has a good showing with their Nintendo Direct@E3 2013 showcase this morning.  New details were given for many of their highest profile first and third party games and the new Smash Bros. was shown running on the Wii U and the 3DS along with three of the characters being introduced in the game: Mega Man, Villager from Animal Crossing, and the female Wii Fit Trainer (hopefully the only random choice this time around in a similar vein to ROB and Mr. Game & Watch).

The rest of the details released today were as follows:

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E3 2013 Day #1 Summary

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

Perhaps the most memorable E3 conference day of all time happened today.  We’ll have a handy list of what we learned about the Xbox One, PS4, and other various sundry future game products up soon, but for now the single biggest news of the day: PS4 will not have any of the hated game restrictions of the Xbox One and will retail for a full $100 less at $399.99.

With a 500 GB HDD, a faster architecture than the Xbox One, no forced (or initially included) camera peripheral, huge indie support, the ability to share/sell used games, the ability to play offline indefinitely, and all of the long-standing benefits of PlayStation Plus (except that it’s now required to play multiplayer online *shrug*) the PS4 well and truly blew the Xbox One out of the water today, even considering the fact that the excellent-looking Titanfall from ex-Infinity Ward studio Respawn Entertainment is exclusive to the Xbox One and PC.  Unless Microsoft seriously rethinks its life and does a complete 180 on its policies, we definitely know which console we’ll be buying first for the office. 

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Best Buy Canada Locations for Nintendo E3 Demos

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

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In an unprecedented move Nintendo is letting the general gaming public have a go at the same game demos it will be showing off in LA at this year’s E3.  What makes this news even better for the general public in North America is that there are over 100 Best Buy locations that will be demoing these games the day after they’re announced, first on Wednesday June 12th from 4:00pm to 8:00pm local time and then on Saturday June 15th from 1:00pm to 5:00pm.  If you go early enough you can even net yourself some form of Luigi swag.  Here are the lucky Canadian cities whose Best Buys will be hosting these events:

Ontario: North York, Toronto, Mississauga, Windsor, London, Ottawa, Kingston, Brampton, Oakville
Quebec: Montreal, Lasalle
Manitoba: Winnipeg
Saskatchewan: Saskatoon
Alberta: Edmonton, Calgary (2 locations)
British Columbia: Vancouver, Langley, Richmond
Nova Scotia: Dartmouth

We’ll be covering the event in Saskatoon, SK in person, so stay tuned for more info as E3 draws ever nearer.

E3 2013 Conference Times

Friday, May 24th, 2013

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Just as a heads-up, here are the times of the major E3 media briefings in CST.  Since as we mentioned before we won’t be attending E3 in person this year, we’ll instead be supplying links to the official streams of the conferences as well as any liveblogs from other websites that may be particularly well maintained. 

Monday, June 10

Microsoft:
10:00 AM CST

Electronic Arts:
2:00 PM CST

Ubisoft:
4:00 PM CST

Sony:
7:00 PM CST

Tuesday, June 11

Nintendo Direct:
8:00 AM CST

The Bittersweetness of E3 2013

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

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E3 media briefing invitations are rolling out making it a bit bittersweet for us as we have to reject them this year due to scheduling conflicts in our press team.  We had a blast last year (with a couple of exceptions and the fact that LA is largely horrific) and we do plan to bring you the best coverage we can from home base, but I thought I’d share the unfortunate feeling of having access to these awesome events without the ability to attend.  Rest assured that next year we are already planning to bring you the utmost first-hand game conference coverage, but we’ll have to miss out on playing all of the lovely new systems before they hit store shelves this time.