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ABOGJ’S 2015 BIG E3 HUB

E3 time is here! Seeing as we’ll be posting quite a bit about it, this page is here to serve as a hub for all of our E3 2015 related content!

Pre-E3 Coverage

Damn, am I Excited For E3 Again – Editorial

Disembarking the Hype Train: Reasons to Stem Your E3 Excitement – Editorial

Bethesda Conference

New Doom Looks So Goddamn Cool Oh My God – News

Dishonored 2 Is Happening, Act Surprised – News

Fallout 4 Blows Up The End of The Bethesda Conference – News

Xbox/Microsoft Conference

ReCore: Keiji Inafune At Work! – News

Xbox One Gets 360 Backwards Compatibility… NOW – News

Now It’s Confirmed: Dark Souls 3 – News

Rare Replay: 30 Games, $30 – News

Rare Might Not be Dead! Sea of Thieves is Coming – News

Gears 4 Coming Holiday 2016 – News

EA Conference

Mass Effect: Andromeda Announced for Holiday 2016 – News

Gotta Go Fast: Need For Speed FMV Edition – News

EA Dropping New IP Unravel – News

Finally! Star Wars Battlefront Gets Gameplay Footage – News

Ubisoft Conference

South Park is Back in The Fractured But Whole – News

Ubisoft Has a New IP and Genre: For Honor – News

Get Ready for Space in Anno 2205 – News

Trackmania Gets a Coat of Paint: Trackmania Turbo – News

Excuse Me Ubisoft? Ghost Recon Wildlands Seems Mildly Interesting – News

Sony Conference

THE LAST GUARDIAN LIVES AND IT’S COMING 2016 – News

Horizon Zero Dawn Coming From Guerrilla Games – News

Hitman is Back as Hitman – News

That Final Fantasy VII Remake You Wanted Exists – News

Uhm, No One Knows What Dreams is – News

You Can Make Shenmue III Happen – News

Nintendo Digital Event

StarFox Zero Lets You Become An Ostrich – News

Zelda Co-op Comes Back in Tri Force Heroes – News

Hyrule Warriors on the Go – News

Fire Emblem Fates is Emotional Anime Goodness – News

Xenoblade Chronicles X to Hit Dcember 4, 2015 – News

Live the Dream of Interior Decorator in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer – News

Animal Crossing amiibo Festival is Mario Party? – News

Yoshi’s Woolly World Rolls Onto Wii U October 16, 2015 – News

Whatever YO-KAI WATCH is, You Can Play it Holiday 2015 – News

Good Name: Mario & Luigi Paper Jam – News

Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash is Giant – News

Metroid Prime: Federation Force is Unexpected – News

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water Completely Dodges Digital Event – News

Square Enix Conference

Thank You Shadow Lord! New NieR in the Works – News

Square Enix Announces Project Setsuna – News

Handheld Games Are Still Important, Shut Up

I’m sitting in an extremely busy airport, assaulted with the scent of Cinnabon, three hours early for my two-and-a-half-hour flight. So what is there to do? I could play Terra Battle, that sounds good. Oh wait, my boarding pass is on my phone, and my battery is terrible. If I do that, I might not be able to even get on the plane in the first place. I can write this article, sure, but not everyone is willing to lug around a laptop like me. And this is a gaming laptop, so the battery life is for shit anyway; it’ll die just before boarding. If only there was something that I could play games on that I wouldn’t have to worry about if the battery ran out. Why aren’t things like that relevant anymore?  Continue reading Handheld Games Are Still Important, Shut Up

China, the Ouya, and the Future of Console Games

Today, Ouya announced that it had received an investment from China’s Alibaba Group. Along with the investment comes an agreement for Ouya to port their software to Alibaba’s YunOS. These are the potential first steps towards the eventual goal of selling Ouyas in China, perhaps the first plan for console distribution in the country since it recently lifted its ban on video game consoles. This is perhaps the last chance for the Ouya to become as successful as it seemed it would be in its Kickstarter days. If it does, it may cause a major shift in the console market around the world.

Is that really a good thing?

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Why MAGfest is What Videogame Conventions Should Be

What do you think of when I say (or write, whatever) the phrase “video game convention”? Probably things like E3, PAX, maybe even Comic-Con depending on your familiarity with video games (hint: Comic-Con is not a video game convention). But for myself and many like me, the first think that pops into our brain and tumbles out of our mouth almost before you can finish the question is MAGFest.

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