After the Nintendo Direct finishes, Reggie Fils-Aime will reveal the four titles that will be playable at Best Buy locations next week. This information will be distributed through Nintendo’s social media channels.

According to official PR sent out by Nintendo:

Remember to visit http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct on June 11 at 7 a.m. PT to view Nintendo Direct@E3 2013, which will provide updates about upcoming Wii U games. After the video, Reggie will announce the four Wii U games that will be available during the Nintendo Experience at Best Buy on Nintendo’s social media channels. Fans can play these unreleased games at select locations around the country. For more details, visit www.bestbuy.com/NintendoEvents.

Source: Nintendo PR

Skylanders Swap Force due out in October

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Activision’s next Skylanders game is due out in October. The company announced today that Skylanders Swap Force will be hitting store shelves on October 13 in North America, Europe on October 18, and Australia on October 16.

Pricing is as follows: starter pack, $74.99; individual action figures, $9.99 for core characters, $14.99 for new SWAP Force characters.

Vicarious Visions is developing Skylanders Swap Force for all console versions of the game except for Wii, which Beenox is handling. n-Space is creating the 3DS version once again this year.

Source: Activision PR

Pikmin 3 footage

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Activision’s E3 2013 lineup

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Activision has announced its lineup for E3 2013.

The publisher intends to highlight three games at the expo this year: Call of Duty: Ghosts, Skylanders: Swap Force, an Destiny. The first two will be playable; the latter will not.

Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg said:

“This is obviously a big year – not just for Activision, but for the entire industry. There’s a console transition coming and naturally, everyone wants to see what new possibilities that will unleash in the games. We remain laser focused on delivering the things we know our gamers care about most: great gameplay, immersive worlds, and cool innovations. And that’s what our amazing lineup at E3 this year will deliver.”

Source: Activision PR

Resident Evil: Revelations HD – Lady Hunk, Rachael Ooze trailers

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Lady Hunk and Rachel Ooze are coming to Resident Evil: Revelations HD on June 11 as DLC. Both will be playable in Raid Mode.

“Nintendo@E3 2013 Community” launched on Miiverse

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Nintendo has opened a special Miiverse community for E3 2013. For a limited time, fans can partake in the official “Nintendo@E3 2013 Community”.

You can access the main section on your PC/mobile device here. There’s also a “Backstage” section, located here, which is for more official announcements and such.

Read the official announcement post here, or find it below.

2K Sports confirms no NBA 2K14 for Wii U

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Would you look at that… yet another sports title will be skipping Wii U.

2K Sports confirmed to GameSpot that NBA 2K14 will not be available on the platform. Senior vice president of sports operations Jason Argent explained that the company “didn’t want to take resources” from the other versions.

Argent said:

“We are not doing a Wii U version this year. The decision was made internally that resources would be best put toward building a really, really amazing current-generation and next-generation game and we didn’t want to take resources away from creating amazing experiences on…all those platforms.”

Are any major sports titles heading to Wii U this year? There’s no Madden, FIFA, UFC, NHL, or PES titles planned.

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