E3 is once again upon us and since we’re providing a lot of live E3 coverage this year, we decided to make a page dedicated to our liveblogging of the three major press conferences. You can access it easily by clicking the “E3 Liveblogs” button in the sidebar or by going to:
This page will stay there throughout the E3 conferences, so you know exactly where to go when the time comes. We’ll keep you up-do-date on any additional E3 information as it breaks.
[UPDATE: A spot opened up for Game Usagi at the Sony E3 Press Conference this year, so with our last-minute invitation to Sony’s press conference now confirmed we can provide you with the latest and best gaming news from all three major video game companies!]
Sony announced the time of their E3 2012 press conference a couple of weeks ago, but we were holding off on posting anything about it until we heard back from them regarding whether or not we were invited to attend. We’ve heard the official response, and we have not been invited to attend Sony’s press conference this year!
The conference will be taking place at 7:00 PM CST on Monday, June 4th, and we’ll be able to give you our impressions on whatever Sony unveils then on Thursday, June 7th after our booth tour. Make sure to visit us frequently during E3 as we’ll have the latest insider info on all of the hottest gaming announcements and impressions on how all of the upcoming games/systems play.
Nintendo announced their conference time a little while ago, but much like with the Sony conference we didn’t want to comment on it until we were sure of whether or not we are attending. Well, our invitations arrived today, so we can tell you for sure that we will be present and liveblogging at Nintendo’s E3 conference this year!
Aside from being a lifelong dream come true for us, this also means that you will be getting the best up-to-the-millisecond coverage of all the wonderful announcements Nintendo surely has in store regarding the launch of the Wii U and the expansion of the 3DS’ software lineup. The presentation takes place on Tuesday, June 5th at 10:00 AM CST. We’ll have a liveblog set-up a little before then and will be providing you with pictures as well as words telling you how much your mind is to be blown.
As E3 draws ever nearer we’ll make placeholder pages for our E3 conference liveblogs so that you know exactly where to go when the fun begins in less than two weeks.
Supposedly leaked by a TT Games (the makers of the LEGO games including the upcoming LEGO City Stories exclusive for the Wii U) employee, the Internet now has what may well be the first image of the final retail version of the Wii U controller. As with the leaked 3DS dev kit board that we analyzed to great acclaim almost precisely two years ago, this single image has a ton of information that may be gleaned from it. Read on for an in-depth analysis of what’s changed and what that tells us if this image is indeed genuine.
Microsoft has announced the time and place for their E3 2012 conference. Held once again at the Galen Center, the conference will be taking place on Monday, June 4th at around 10:00 AM CST. The other great thing about this is that we’ve received our invitation to attend the press conference so we’ll be honest-to-goodness liveblogging it as it happens this year to give you the best up-to-the-second coverage possible! Tell you friends, Game Usagi is the place to be on June 4th.
We just received confirmation that we’ve been accepted to attend E3 this year, so be prepared for the best-ever E3 coverage from Game Usagi! We’re still working on attending the big press conferences so that we can liveblog them for you in a more… lively fashion, but we’ll have all the goods from the showfloor this year for the first time ever! We’ll keep you posted as we learn more about attending the press conferences. Just be prepared to tune in to us come E3 for all of your insider news, previews, and reviews!
There’s a new rumour today that the PS3’s successor is codenamed Orbis. When we consider this with the confirmed codename of Durango for the next Xbox 360 and the as-far-as-we-know final name for the Wii U, it’s going to be one funny E3 this year for video game system names.
The rumours currently peg the Durango and Orbis for a late 2013 launch, so it would make sense if they were at least announced in some form at this year’s E3. How Microsoft plans to get around the Mexican state/Dodge SUV/Ford Truck association with their codename is anybody’s guess, but Sony isn’t far behind in the awkward codename choosing game. Orbis already has 16 entries on Wikipedia for everything from a German municipality to a few different book publishers. Perhaps the Wii U name isn’t sounding so bad now after all, considering the even less origianal alternatives.
Any way you look at it though, there’s going to be a lot of people looking very silly talking about the Durango Vs. the Orbis’ graphics pretty soon if all the rumours are to be believed, so start getting used to the names now or you’ll be left behind in the early 2000s with your silly names like Xbox and Playstation.