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Nintendo was holding back at their conference, it appears.
Platinum Games - developers of Bayonetta, Madworld and the upcoming Metal Gear Solid Rising: Revengeance - unveiled their first foray onto the Nintendo Wii U in the tentatively titled Project P-100. The game was demoed live on Spike TV shortly after the conclusion of Nintendo’s E3 press conference.
Epic Baltimore formed from remains of Amalur studio.
Last month, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer Big Huge Games was suddenly and unceremoniously shut down after their parent company 38 Games missed a loan payment to the state of Rhode Island. Just like that around 80 employees were out of work. While some former employees were able to secure work with other area developers such as Zynga East and ZeniMax Online, a vast majority were still unemployed. Until Epic Games stepped in, that is.
Welcome to Nintendo's foray into social media.
Nintendo has long been criticized on their online strategy – something their attempting to address with both the 3DS and Wii U. While we await a more robust presentation concerning online functionality at Nintendo’s press conference on Tuesday, Sunday’s Nintendo Direct presentation shed some light on what kind of functions we should expect with the revelation of Miiverse.
It looks more than a little familiar and it comes in black too!
The main focus of Nintendo’s pre-E3 video presentation may have been on the newly dubbed Wii U GamePad and some of the online functionalities, but there were a couple of other surprising details slipped in as well – chief among these being the revelation of yet another Wii U controller called, the Wii U Pro Controller.
The PixlBit Staff sounds off before this year's big show kicks off.
Each and every year E3 brings about the biggest gaming announcements of the year and this year appears to be no exception. With the Wii U coming later this year, the 3DS and Vita picking up steam, and the next generation looming on the horizon, we're surely going to see some megatons dropped. But what will they be?
One stop shopping for all your E3 conference needs.
E3 is a hectic event. With so much going on, it’s very easy to miss something. That’s why we here at PixlBit have put together this little guide to the events at this year’s expo. Below you’ll find the dates, times and viewing information on the many press conferences which are sure to host a plethora of mind blowing announcements.
Gearbox supplies us with another awesome special edition
Gearbox software sure knows how to do a special edition. Coming off the announcement of the multiple and expansive editions of Borderlands 2, Sega has announced that the developer’s other big title, Aliens: Colonial Marines, will also be getting an equally cool set.
Lara lands in a world of hurt in this visceral look into the game.
The reboot of Tomb Raider is one of many games to slip from a 2012 to a 2013 release. While this may have bummed out more than a few gamers there is some good news now being shed. In the latest trailer for the game – specifically the E3 trailer – a firm release date has been announced.
This new trailer gives us a sneak peak at the game's first gameplay footage.
Being one of the more hotly anticipated games here at PixlBit, the promise of a new gameplay centered trailer for Dishonored was exciting to say the least. Now we have that trailer, as it was revealed late last night, and it looks to live up to the hype.
The father of Harvest Moon has a new IP coming out.
If Natsume is known for anything, it has to be for their cartoonish farm/life simulator series Harvest Moon. Combining addictive game mechanics with a wholesome aesthetic styling was par for the course for series creator Yasuhiro Wada and it looks like he may be ready to strike that chord again with an E3 unveiling of Codename: Project Happiness.
