Tag Archives: E3 2017

***Updated with YOUR winners and losers (opens in new tab) from the show*** The E3 2017 press conferences (opens in new tab) have been and gone. Overall it feels like a solid yet safe year for games on all platforms – while there were a few surprises, no-one really shocked …

As part of its game showcase during E3 2017 (opens in new tab), Nintendo announced a project that fans have been clamoring about for decades: a core Pokemon game coming to a home console. Yup, Pokemon for Nintendo Switch is definitely A Thing That Is Happening. There are no details …

Short and sweet – that’s the way! Nintendo showcased a ton of new Nintendo Switch games (and shunned the 3DS) during its newest Nintendo Spotlight, streaming before the E3 2017 show floor opens to the public. New Metroid Prime and Pokemon games for Switch are confirmed to be in development, …

Star Wars Battlefront has changed, and so far, it seems, all for the better. Where the original, multiplayer-only game is the most consummately, lovingly released Star Wars theme park outside of a Disney land-holding (albeit one with a limited number of number of rides and attractions, and an ultimate depth …

Ubisoft’s E3 2017 press conference (opens in new tab) made it official: Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is happening and… wait a minute, it actually looks pretty good? We already knew it existed thanks to a bumper crop of leaks (opens in new tab), but the presentation made it actually …

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sure, the games of 2017 are virtually unrecognisable from the earliest slices of software we marvelled at in the early 80s, yet there’s a common set of values that have always run through them. A ‘good’ game is one that …

Electronic Arts closed out it’s EA Play event (aka EA’s own private E3 2017 (opens in new tab) party) with 30 minutes of Star Wars Battlefront 2 (opens in new tab) gameplay and… I mean, holy bantha poodoo. There’s so much we saw that we had to break it all …