Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, is at E3 in Los Angeles this week to promote Nintendo’s latest resurgence and hype people up on the coming year of Switch and 3DS games. But he’s also ready to field questions, and we had a bunch.
No wonder E3 seemed extra-crowded this year.
No wonder E3 seemed extra-crowded this year. It was extra-crowded! The ESA, which runs the event, just announced that 2017 E3 attendance was 68,400, including, for the first time, 15,000 members of the public. Up from the ESA’s count of 50,300 total attendance at E3 2016.
At E3 2017, Black Characters’ Hair Looks Better Than Ever
Games tend to have trouble depicting black hair, but this year’s E3 displayed refreshing palette of kinky, coily, textured hair. Here’s a breakdown.
Destiny 2 Director Answers Our Questions About The Open World, The Darkness, And Titan Bubbles
Yesterday at E3, my Kotaku Splitscreen co-host Jason Schreier sat down with Bungie’s Luke Smith, game director on Destiny 2. They hit a wide variety of topics including what The Darkness is, how the game’s open world levels will work, and why they’re taking away Jason’s Sunsinger res.
Despite Political Overtones, David Cage Says Detroit Is Mostly About Androids
Near the end of the Detroit: Become Human demo I saw during E3, renegade android Markus and his partner North incite a riot among recently freed androids. If you choose to set things on fire, North triumphantly declares, “Now the humans will have no choice but to listen to us.” Main character Markus, staring into the…
Monster Hunter World’s Real Star Is Nature Itself
The only thing more satisfying than a successful Monster Hunter hunt is wearing the armor you made out of the beast you took down. I watched as Monster Hunter World director Yuya Tokuda hunted down a giant beast during a demonstration at E3, and while the weapons and monsters were great, the game’s world was the most…
The Xbox Has Brand New Avatars
Remember Microsoft’s Avatars, those wobbly caricatures that danced around the Xbox 360’s dashboard? They’ve been sidelined ever since the release of the Xbox One, but that doesn’t mean the company has given up on them.
“It’s certainly the most memorable game here.”
“It’s certainly the most memorable game here.” Overheard at E3’s Senran Kagura booth. The comically pervy series has now moved into third-person shooter territory. Let me tell you, it is something else to watch a whole crowd stare in confusion as anime girls shoot each others’ swimsuits off.
E3 2017: A Cringe Compilation
Video games do not have the decades of experience that, say, sports has when it comes to live television. So when everyone gets together for an event like E3, the broadcast entertainment you enjoy at home doesn’t always go according to plan.
What Beyond Good & Evil 2 Is Now, And What Its Creators Dream It Can Be
“This is day zero of Beyond Good & Evil 2,” Michel Ancel told me on Monday. As he spoke, he was playing an early version of a game people have been expecting for nearly a decade, but that he says has only actually been in development for a few years.