On Tuesday, Nintendo will host its E3 2013 Nintendo Direct presentation. More news will follow once the broadcast ends.

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

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

A third round of Shin Megami Tensei IV downloadable content has come to Japan. Players can purchase DLC that provides a new costume for the protagonist, who can dress as Asmodeus. Atlus has also introduced the “Breaking the Archangel Wings 1” mission.

The new mission tasks players in taking on the four archangels, but only two of them are in the mission. Once the two are defeated, you can add them to your party through fusion. It won’t be easy – a powerful party will be needed to beat them.

Breaking the Archangel Wings 1 is priced at 250 yen. The Demon Skin costume pack is available for 200 yen.

Atlus will release Breaking the Archangel Wings 2 next next week.

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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

The June 16 episode of Pokemon Smash will be a “Pokemon X and Pokemon Y Special”. Game Freak director Junichi Masuda is confirmed for an appearance.

This episode follows Pokemon X/Y’s presence at E3 2013, as well as CoroCoro’s monthly magazine on June 15. There’s a good chance that Pokemon Smash will be presenting much of the same information offered through these two sources.

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Author: Patrick

Welcome to Famicompendium – a new regular (or at least semi-regular) column where I’ll be taking a look back at the best and worst the world of import gaming has to offer. From the Famicom to the Wii, I’ll be exploring some of the most fascinating titles to never be officially released in English.

I thought I’d start the column off with an adorable, charming and brutally difficult platformer from the 90s. Lately we’ve been giving a fair bit of coverage to a little 3DS game called Sayonara Umihara Kawase (and hopefully even more once an English version is announced at E3 – don’t leave me hanging, Agatsuma) so it’s worth examining just who the heck Umihara Kawase is and why we’re saying goodbye to her.

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E3 2007 was heavily lacking in new announcements. It was quite the downturn compared to E3 2006 – a show that impressed many.

One of Nintendo’s first announcements was the Wii Zapper. A few third-party games were promoted with the peripheral, including Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. Nintendo also teased a game of its own (Link’s Crossbow Training), that would be packed in with the Zapper.

Later in the show, Nintendo announced a release date for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but the game would eventually be delayed. Mario Kart Wii was also revealed, along with the Wii Wheel that would be bundled with the accessory.

Nintendo highlighted a few core titles during the conference: Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and Super Mario Galaxy.

Nintendo closed things out with Wii Fit. It’s Wii Fit – not much else to say! But we did get Reggie’s famous “My body is ready” quote from his on-stage antics, at least.

Not too exciting. But if you thought this was disappointing, wait until we look back on the 2008 media briefing…