The Damned

Playable Skyward Sword demos, as well.

Playable demo units on the floorshow. Girls with 3DSs on stage, walking around. Fuck. I wish I was there.

The 3DS ate Sawata and Miyamoto! It's evil! EVIL, I TELLS YA! No, Regi! Stay away! It will get you too!

OK, it's obvious that the 3DS is the thing Nintendo is going to concentrate on. Thy got more stuff for it than they do for Wii, and they have all those developers talking about how awesome it is. Yeah, 3DS is the new Wii.

RIIIIDGE RAAAACER! It's Ridge Racer!

When he announced (very subtly, I might add) NintenDogs + Cats, you could hear some in the audience moan. Batman game for the Wii? Metal Gear Solid and even Ridge Racer (tentative title)? It's Ridge Racer! Riiiiiidge Raaacer!

Uhm... I may have to break my promise to myself about not buying a 3DS right away. First iteration of hardware and all that. Must... not... rub against pants. Must... not fondle... analog wheel with tongue. Damn it, I'm buying one now, aren't I?

Holy shit! Retro-fest or not, this is a good showing of titles people have been asking for for years! This is just great.

Project Sora? Never heard of it. It's a game made specifically for the 3DS. KID ICARUS? KID ICARUS!

PLAYS 3D MOVIES! Confirmed! Dreamworks, Disney, Warner Bros, etc. Actual movies, not just game stuff or clips. Actual movies in actual 3D, portable.

Looks like it has two very small cameras on the back of the top half. Might be a tracking system? So, graphics are confirmed as "improved", so... yeah. OK. Motion sensor and analog pad confirmed. Show us some games? Maybe? Please? Two cameras n back confirmed. It's a 3d camera, so you can take 3D pics.

There it is... Looks like a slightly different DSi so far. Slightly wider top screen. Big round circle above d-pad.

SHOW THE FUCKING 3DS ALREADY, DAMN IT! I will kill you, Regi. I will.

Wait. Everything is coming out this holiday, or late early fall. This might be the biggest string of releases so far.

New Donkey Kong game from Retro Studios. Christ, is the stream I'm watching slightly delayed or something? Everyone keeps posting the same thing I do, but like, a minute earlier.

Get to the 3DS already!

Hardly. I may have beaten the campaigns on Expert, but I still had to work at it. I've seen guys blast through Realism Expert pretty much on solo. Those guys are the ones that you should talk to. Crazy jive turkeys, every one of them.

Wait a minute... Link gets a whip. Now Kirby gets a whip. Samus has a whip of a sort for a long time, but forget that. Castlevania references galore! NEW CASTLEVANIA GAME (pretty much) CONFIRMED!

Kirby Wii! Yay! Kirby's Epic Yarn, a sewing and knitting simulator from Nintendo, this fall.

Golden Eye! FUCKING GOLDEN EYE! This November!

Golden Sun footage! Dark Darkness or something. Who cares. GOLDEN SUN! This winter is the release date.

Yeah, another mini-game pack. Awesome. Yes, I was being sarcastic. WHERE'S THE FUCKING 3DS? METROID?

Links are for commies and fags.

Curse you, Schwaltzvald. I was editing the first post and watching everything while you added that in. Also, curse you, Nintendo, for playing the Zelda video first and distracting me. Linklevania?

New Zelda trailer! Starts off by showing Link from the previous models. The game is called "The Skyward Sword". Miyamoto confirms it uses Wii Motion Plus (duh) and that proper stances will affect the use of the sword and shield. Like, if you hold your nunchuck up, the shield will work better. Enemies will be cut differently depending upon the angle you swing your sword at. One example is a door with an eye in it. It tracks your sword, but if you try to cut it, it will close its eye. So you have to use a special attack at the right time and way to hit it. Using the shield can deflect enemy attacks back at them, sort of like the old Mirror Shield. Enemies with weapons will hold their clubs or shields to defend themselves, and you have to swing your sword to get around them. Items are handled as if they are in a pocket. So you have to "reach in" with the Wiimote to access them, and then turn your Wiimote to slect them. Also, with Motion Plus, you no longer have to aim at the screen when using the slingshot (and I would suppose the bow and arrow). Bombs can be rolled by using the same motion as bowling. Incidentally, Miyamoto isn't very good at his own games. Designer first, player second, I guess. There were a few comments from Miyamoto about "wireless interference", which may be true. Lots of cellphones and laptops everywhere. Miyamoto says the game will be out next year.