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Last year, Kotaku published an article that was filled to the brim with allegations about Silicon Knights and Denis Dyack. Through information provided by anonymous sources, the piece discussed the supposedly troubled development of X-Men: Destiny and how Eternal Darkness 2 was secret being made alongside the project.

Dyack is now with Precursor Games, but these allegations aren’t behind him. While Precursor has been focusing on its crowdfunding efforts for Shadow of the Eternals, Kotaku’s piece continues to be brought up on a regular basis.

And so Dyack has responded to the situation with a 30-minute response video. You can find it below:

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Konami’s E3 2013 pre-show will be about Metal Gear Solid V, Castlevania: Lords of Shadows 2, and Pro Evolution Soccer. But that’s not all. The company is also teasing “key announcements” for the show.

In its announcement regarding the pre-E3 show, Konami states that the event “will also make a number of additional key announcements.” Further information was not provided.

You can watch Konami’s pre-E3 show on June 6 at 10 AM PT / 2 PM ET.

Source: Konami PR

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SEGA is working in partnership with Nintendo on three Sonic games: Sonic Lost World, Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, and an unannounced project. Could that last one be some kind of racer from Sumo Digital, the maker of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed?

Sumo executive producer Steve Lycett sent out a few very interesting tweets last month. Lycett’s messages allude to the fact that he’d like to follow-up Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed with a new game that “could finally settle some arguments” such as “Who’s really win a kart race”. When one user mentioned a Pac-Man World Rally crossover, Lycett said he “was thinking there are bigger rivals” – like Mario and Sonic, maybe?

I can imagine two possibilities: a completely brand new game involving Mario and Sonic, or some kind of appearance in Mario Kart’s new Wii U outing. On the other hand, it’s possible that this is nothing at all and we’re completely looking into things.

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures may not be the only new Pac-Man game in the works. Yesterday, Namco Bandai registered trademarks for “Pac-Man Dash!” and “Pac-Man Monsters”. What exactly these trademarks are related to are currently unclear, but I’m sure we’ll find out in due time.

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Disney has registered a whole slew of domain names that point to a new racer of some sort. These include DisneySpeedster.com, DisneySpeedsters.com DisneyKart.com, DisneyRacers.com, DisneyKartRacing.com, DisneyKarting.net, DisneyRacing.com.

Interestingly, there’s a Twitter account already registered for “Disney Speedsters”. It’s unclear if it’s official, but the account is following a trio of other Disney Twitter handles.

Hey, maybe Disney is cooking something up for E3. You never know!

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New Nintendo Direct also showcases range of Wii U games coming this spring and summer

17th May 2013 – The next game in SEGA’s Sonic the Hedgehog series will be exclusive to Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announcing details of a worldwide partnership with SEGA during a new Nintendo Direct video announcement today. Sonic Lost World is a new action-adventure platforming game, and more information about it will be announced before the E3 2013 video game trade show begins on 11th June.

The Nintendo Direct also announced a new addition to the Mario & Sonic series, the first appearance for the series on Wii U, as well as revealing launch dates for Pikmin 3, The Wonderful 101 and New Super Luigi U.

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North American presentation is 29 minutes long. Japanese presentation is 39 minutes long. Will begin at 10 AM ET / 7 AM PT.

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Nintendo has been catching a lot of flack for its involvement with “Let’s Play” videos on YouTube. The crux of the matter: some content that was previously monetized by creators is instead accompanied by third-party ads.

Quite a few folks have weighed in on the situation since the news dropped in yesterday – including developers. Thomas Was Alone creator Mike Bithell had this to say:

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I don’t think there was any doubt about this at this point, but yes: Mario Kart, Super Mario Bros. Zelda, and Smash Bros. will all be appearing at E3 next month. Nintendo reconfirmed the news in its NPD response today.

The excerpt states:

“At the upcoming E3 trade show in June in Los Angeles, Nintendo expects to show attendees upcoming Wii U games from the Mario Kart, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Super Smash Bros. franchises.”

Mario Kart Wii U and the new 3D Mario title for Wii U will be playable. Super Smash Bros. will be shown in at least image form, while the Zelda reference is likely pointing to the Link to the Past sequel for 3DS.