• On day one they mostly showed off some indie titles that were going to be released on the Wii U's and 3DS's eShop. Some of these games were Jotun: Valhalla Edition, Runbow Pocket, Axiom Verge, and Severed.
• Also, while not shown by Nintendo themselves, Noitu Love: Devolution was confirmed to be coming to the both the Wii U and 3DS eShop this July.
• On day two they started to get out of first gear and showed their more anticipated stuff. Some new pokemon were shown off in Pokemon Sun & Moon and some new gameplay elements were shown off in the form of Battle Royals in which you and three other trainers face each other in a free-for-all battle.
• In the Zelda department, the new Zelda title that had been in development since 2013 now has an official name, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. More info about the game was shown off in great detail during Nintendo's live Treehouse stream during the second day and they talked about many new features about the game such as rock climbing, hunting, weapon and armor crafting, amiibo support, and a world and story that are VERY non-linear. An official release date hasn't been announced yet, but I would estimate that it wouldn't be released until at least late spring of 2017.
• A bunch of new amiibo were shown off as well, three for Zelda (Archer Link, Rider Link, and a Guardian with posable arms) and seven for Mario (Wario, Waluigi, Daisy, Rosalina, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and a glow-in-the-dark Boo).
• Paper Mario: Color Splash now has an official release date of October 27, 2016.
• On day three they decided to wind down with some smaller info in the form of portable titles. Mario Party: Star Rush was announced for the 3DS and features a rather unusual gameplay style in which all players move at the same time on an open board while you recruit other Mario characters to help you in the game.
• A brand new IP was revealed for the 3DS called Ever Oasis and judging by the gameplay video, it looks like it might be an action RPG hybridizing the gameplay styles of Animal Crossing and Monster Hunter.
• Pokemon Go Plus is shooting for a July release with the wrist add-on costing around $34.99USD.
• Both versions of Yokai Watch 2, Dragon Quest VII for the 3DS, and BoxBoxBoy!! were all confirmed for localization.
• And finally, Rhythm Heaven Megamix was released later the same day as an eShop exclusive title on the Nintendo 3DS.

If you wish to watch the recorded Treehouse stream that Nintendo did for E3 in its entirety, you can watch the above video, but until then, I'll be seeing you.

The Technomancer

Actual RPGs are hard to come by these days. Many people mistaking label leveling up a skill in a linear corridor shooter as an RPG, but developer Spiders know the truth. The Technomancer is an open world cyberpunk RPG set on Mars with a heavy emphasis on storytelling and unique melee combat. The Technomancer is also a spiritual successor to the severely underrated Mars: War Logs. Spiders have a proven track record when it comes to developing a proper RPG with compelling story aspects, so we're excited to see if The Technomancer can keep Spiders' track record polished.

We Happy Few

If you thought the underwater city of Rapture from BioShock wasn't fueled by enough fictional drugs, We Happy Few is for you. We Happy Few is a psychological horror game set in an alternate 1960's England where all citizens are required to take a drug called "Joy." More about the game will be known once it is released to Steam early access and Xbox Game Preview July 26th.

Cuphead

Cuphead is a 2D platformer with the artstyle of a 1930's cartoon. At the beginning of the game, the player loses a bet with the devil and spends the rest of the game attempting to repay the lost bet. Recently announced for Cuphead were more platforming areas to compliment its brutal boss fights. One of Cuphead's hooks is its punishing difficulty. See for yourself.

Vampyr

From the developers that brought you Life is Strange... comes Vampyr. Vampyr is a third person RPG that casts you in the role of a doctor turned vampire as he deals with the duality of saving lives and taking them. The video game industry has been absolutely starved for a good vampire game since Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Let's hope that Dontnod Entertainment can revitalize this undead genre.

Yooka-Laylee

Banjo-Kazooie fans rejoice! No longer are you trapped under the mighty boot of Microsoft. After a very successful Kickstarter, many of the original Rare Ware developers were able to fund the Banjo-Threeie that we never got. Yooka-Laylee is a third person platformer that takes more than a few pages from Banjo's playbook. The colorful, cartoony visuals are back, as well as the collect-a-thon gameplay that gamers from the early 2000's know and love.

Transcript:

Good\r evening from County Durham in England, I’m Jodis Welch for\r NovoGamer.com and as promised, a special comment following the\r statements made by some in the gaming press in relation to the\r horrific massacre that took place in Orlando, Florida on Sunday 12th\r June.

I\r have held off for a week to do this first because of constant\r re-writing but also because I am of the depleting number of people\r that say that people should avoid politicising tragedies and that\r care should be used before speaking as shock that inevitably comes\r with terrible moments in our lives can make us do or say things that\r are out of character, or ill timed, or just flat out wrong.

However\r the decision on whether or not to respond had in the end been made\r for me because in the majority of cases we do not live in a world\r where people are able to contain themselves in times of crisis and do\r not have the mindfulness, or the empathy, to think before they blurt\r out nonsense either because their lives are shaped by their ideology\r and their ideology demands everything and everyone change to suit\r that specific ideology, or worse still, just doing it for the sake of\r getting as many damned clicks for that damned ad-sense revenue.

While\r I hope that I respond aware of the trappings of shock which I\r experienced not only in the shootings in Orlando but here in the UK\r later that week with the murder of Member of Parliament Jo Cox and a\r personal shock with news of the passing of a former work colleague in\r what appears to be a suicide, I trust myself that I am responding in\r good conscious since I can’t trust anyone else to respond,\r especially without injecting their own political leanings in order to\r try score points against their opposite number and I am certainly not\r doing this for financial incentives.

I’ve\r never been interested in betting on any horse in the ridiculous\r contests between Left and Right and I currently do not get paid for\r what is a side activity on Novogamer. If you happen to see an ad on\r Novogamer or hear one on Soundcloud, I have no control or say over\r that and I do not receive any money from them.

I\r respond this evening because the ideas of Jack Thompson, that we\r thought ceased following his disbarment in 2007, that not only\r threatened to remove harmless material from law abiding citizens but\r threatened the livelihood of game development staff is very much\r alive and well.

Mr.\r Thompson of course was not the first to demonise an entertainment\r medium as being responsible for evil perpetrated in the world. You\r can go back far in human history to find Puritans lamenting the mass\r public reading certain books. It is common knowledge that before he\r could entertain the audience with performances at The Globe Theater,\r the writings of William Shakespeare had to be vetted by authorities\r lest it contained content that could damage or disparage The Crown or\r more ridiculously, The Faith.

However\r it was the crusading antics of Fredric Wertham that started the trend\r of decades being associated with entertainment mediums being used as\r evidence of corrupting the populace, in particular, its youth. With\r Wertham and others in the 1950’s the blame was on comic books. In\r the 70’s music was attacked. The 80’s saw violent movies labeled\r as video nasties as well as the emerging popularity of table-top role\r playing games like Dungeons and Dragons erroneously touted as\r inspiring Satanism.

Video games however have bucked the trend as their demonisation has been\r rolling along for over two decades now. The claims that violent video\r games lead to acts of real life violence began in the early 90’s\r just as gaming was starting to become a mainstream hobby. This\r carried on until around the beginning of this current decade which\r then seamlessly morphed from the religious right positing that gaming\r causes violence to the equally zelotus left claiming gaming caused\r sexism and racism and as if the intention was to validate The\r Horseshoe Theory, they have now come full circle and have embraced\r the long since discredited notions of Jack Thompson and Keith Vaz\r here in the UK and others that violence with guns is perpetuated\r because shooting games exist.

It\r is no small irony that the gaming journalists and commentators that\r promote this theory have in recent years spent significant time and\r in one case, produced a monotone song of all things, to deny that\r they are anything like Mr. Thompson. Just as the irony is not lost\r that the same press, that did do it’s job of joining game\r developers and players in the debate against Mr. Thompson and Mr. Vaz\r and Joe Lieberman and Leland Yee are now attacking developers for\r creating such content and players enjoying said content.

The\r pearl clutching on Monday was first noticed with an indie developer.\r The creator of Braid, Jonathan Blow tweeted saying “The lesson from\r E3: Game studios are working very hard to build fantasies about how\r cool it is to be a mass murderer“. He would then invoke what I\r jokingly refer as Welch’s Law, complaining that after espousing his\r questionable statement on a public forum that the public responded\r using said platform to highlight that his statement was questionable.

To\r you Mr. Blow my question is, what are you credentials in psychology or\r sociology? Your academic history shows studies in Computer Science\r and Creative Writing which is more than relevant and suitable for\r your profession as a game developer. But where, sir, can you show\r superiority over the likes of Dr. Cheryl Olson or Dr. Lawrence Kutner\r or Professor Tanya Byron? Academics and researchers who have said,\r with the validation of their peers that there is no plausible,\r scientific link between violent video games and real life violence,\r that correlation still does not equate causation, 100% guaranteed\r every time.

And\r why should these same academics and other educators or just the\r public at large take you seriously when you act online, like a\r wailing child flailing their arms about because they aren’t getting\r their own way, because the majority are not interested in\r contemplating your quote, unquote question? It is true that academia\r and scientists are always open for questions being asked, for\r theories to be challenged on the premise that there could be a\r mistake in their interpretation or that new data needs to be tested\r and possibly integrated into a theory. However you would think there\r would be some level of understanding that the same academics and\r scientists find it annoying and tiresome that time and energy is\r wasted by ideologues drugging up old theories and notions that have\r long since been debunked.

Then\r came the headline editorials and the tweeting from the news arm of\r the industry. “It’s uncomfortable to be at E3 with all this gun\r championing following Orlando“

“How\r can EA and E3 sell violence after this tragedy?“ as if E3\r organisers, game publishers or developers were directly profiting\r from or were responsible for anything that happened in Orlando, or\r responsible for the attacks at Charlie Hebdo and wider Paris in 2015,\r or the Virginia Tech massacre, or the Columbine Shootings which saw\r Mr. Thompson’s rhetoric reach it’s peak in the early 2000’s..

Rather\r than repeat the previous question, as it is also relevant to these\r alleged journalists my next question is, Where in any product\r released by game companies give suggestions to players that being\r LBGT is a sin worthy of execution? Or that random people should be\r killed because of race, religion or sexual orientation? Can you\r really, with a straight face, point to a specific game or games that\r influence explicitly the exact insane justification multiple shooters\r come up with for carrying out their atrocities?

It\r is as if I really need to point it out, is a rhetorical question\r because no game exists that suggests to players that they should, for\r any reason kill, maim or rape other people in real life. Violent\r characters and situations have been created in all works of fiction\r for centries. It can be poorly written just as much as it could be\r brilliantly executed but in either case the vast majority of people\r that buy these stories know that it is merely fiction and that\r fiction is a completely different entity to reality.

You\r are aware of the difference between fiction and reality are you not?\r As I said the majority of people do and that is why to us the concept\r that by engaging in fiction we will act out the same in reality is\r ridiculous. I do know that some actually say with great certainty\r that you can not possibly separate fiction from reality and frankly\r it goes against any notion of sanity to the point where I have to\r suggest, without cynicism but sincerity seek professional help.

For\r some reason mental health is never brought up by the left or the\r right in these debates, save for a few exceptions. Maybe that is\r where the focus should be. Forget the scapegoating and forget trying\r to change the world and instead to use the effort to help the\r individual out of empathy, not fear. Help before harm. I accept that\r you cannot fully eradicate these event from ever happening but surely\r focusing on troubled individuals before their mind is too far gone to\r save them and others, is more productive than banning nasty material\r from the world around them.

\r Next\r question, why are you ignoring the obvious fact that gaming culture\r is not contained within a vacuum that covers the United States?\r Ignorantly the same shooters that you lament for apparently fueling\r gun culture in the US are also very popular internationally, because\r video games have been a global hobby for quite some time now, even in\r countries that have the gun laws that you wish the US would copy.

I\r can’t possibly speak for every gamer in the UK, let alone Europe\r but I can say with all likelihood of being accurate that European\r gamers are not en masse demanding legislators change our laws to\r match the US Constitution's second amendment because we just love\r Doom, Halo, Call of Duty, and Gears of War so much!

And\r please resist the urge to find a handful of gamers that do identify\r as right wing and do say that Europe should copy US gun laws and then\r claim they speak for all gamers. It’s a flawed method of argument\r that you have been guilty of for the last few years now and it only\r serves to highlight your incredulity and hubris as well as your\r hypocrisy since you, correctly have highlighted your opponents doing\r this in the past.

My\r next question is this, what were you expecting E3 and EA and everyone\r else to do exactly?

Were\r you expecting E3 to cancel Monday and demand everyone else in the\r country cancel other events planned and join in an impromptu national\r day of mourning and apologise for having events even planned? The\r truth is E3 organisers and publishers had obviously no way of\r foreseeing the massacre in Orlando occurring. EA didn’t\r intentionally pick out their shooters to display on Monday because\r “Well a shooting happened yesterday so seems like an ideal time to\r promote them!“ The games in question are already in development\r and are due out within the next year so they would have planned to\r show these games months in advance of E3 happening.

And\r really, no one would have canceled for two reasons. First doing so\r would only give credence to this asinine suggestion that game\r publishers are culpable in all these shootings or that it was somehow\r bad taste to show shooting games following Sunday. If EA was showing\r a game like Hatred, which specifically puts you in the role of a\r psychopathic killer committing mass murder on as many innocents as\r possible, then arguably the outrage would be justified and I think\r enough of us would agree in saying, “We don’t need to see this\r right now“, but that wasn’t the case of course. The games EA\r showed off involving guns was in battle situations where two sides\r were able to shoot back at each other. The situation in Orlando,\r horrifyingly, can’t be anywhere close to being equated the same.

Secondly,\r E3, EA and everyone else carried on as planned on Monday because it\r was the right thing to do! It’s not like the events of Orlando were\r ignored, the flags around E3 were flown at half mast and presenters\r on stages and on streams acknowledge the tragedy and paid tribute and\r then carried on, not out of cold hearted malice and not to pretend\r that the shooting didn’t happen but because getting on with the\r daily routine helps coping with one’s own shock and sadness along\r with with everyone else around you that very likely needs that help\r to cope too.

\r There\r is also the reason of not letting the perpetrators of these crimes\r achieve their goals. It is well established nowadays that acts of\r violence is only part of the sickening plans of those that enact\r terror, attempting to shock the rest of the populous enough that they\r stop doing what they do everyday to exacerbate that terror. Whether\r it is to hold everyone in fear of possible follow up attacks or to\r hurt the country economically or simply just out of the self centeredness of keeping the focus on the killer and what they have\r done. It is only a small victory by not allowing these killers the\r satisfaction of crawling into balls of fear but in terrible moments\r like this where there is very little in the way of victory to be\r found, you take what you can get.

The\r only acceptable reason to shut down E3 on Monday was if authorities\r claimed that they had enough credible intelligence that a similar or\r worse attack was likely to happen at the convention. No one would\r care about time, money or energy lost, making sure that they and\r their fellow humans were safe would be the only thing on anyone’s\r mind.

I\r suspect in the case of these supposed journalists however that they\r would be only thinking about saving their own skin because what\r should be considered from the comedy of errors articles last week is\r that the only reason these people are doing this, is to quench the\r thirst of their narcissism, their own ego. They couldn’t give a\r damn about about the victims in Florida, or those directly affected,\r or everyone trying to deal with the shock, it’s all about them.

“I\r don’t feel right about this, I demand this stops, why aren't you\r doing what I say? You disagree with me? How dare you, show some\r empathy, I’m right and you're wrong, can’t you see I’m trying\r to help you?“

I\r am grateful that E3 organisers and publishers did not give a moment’s\r thought to this megalomaniacal noise. As I’m sure many of you know\r even if you foolishly give in to the demands of these wailing\r children, it is never enough. You can imagine what the follow up\r editorials would be even if the industry had caved in and canceled\r all events on Monday.

“E3\r have canceled today’s events but let me tell why they should still\r hang their heads in shame for even thinking of going ahead with this.\r Forget panels and talks about upcoming games and how to get into the\r industry, put me and my friends on the panels and let us lecture you\r all on how removing all themes of violence will cause all real world\r violence to disappear and how you can financially contribute to my\r program which allows me to tell you how you can be a better person\r like I am!“

There\r would have been much bragging how they managed to stick it to those\r nasty capitalist board of directors and investors and sure, a\r cancellation of E3 on that Monday would have likely caused some stock\r values to drop noticeably but I doubt it would have been enough to\r really make those at the top feel it.

What\r about those that aren't at the top board or investor level? Did you\r ever think about how this might have affected the developers, writers\r and artists. We are in an era where the assumption is developers are\r underpaid for the amount of time they give in order to meet deadlines\r and to meet bonus pay which may go someway to compensate the overtime\r given in a games development. Sure the big publishers could probably\r re-arrange an event to promote their new catalogue of games but the\r developers, already worried about reaching the targets set to obtain\r those bonuses wouldn’t want that worry to be amplified.

However\r that’s developers involved with major publishers. What about the\r indie developers? Those who might have only scraped enough capital to\r be seen on one day at E3, desperate to get the level of exposure E3\r can offer and gain enough sales just to break even. Unable to\r reschedule for another day and missing that potential coverage could\r be fatal to a small company.

Then\r there are the fellow journalists, at least the ones that want to be\r at E3, who have a passion for gaming and wish to share that with\r readers or viewers but perhaps work on one of the smaller sites.\r Those that only got to E3 though the kind donations of the supporters\r of their website even if compared to big publishing backed\r organisations, are small in number. The need to get viewership,\r especially given how volatile and precarious online news media is in\r the current climate, that could obtained from the biggest show in the\r gaming calendar, hindered if they have nothing to talk about.

Then\r there are those at E3 that aren’t part of the industry and take\r whatever minimum wage job they can get that is on offer for a few\r days. Those handing out leaflets, pointing out directions. Whatever\r that role may be for a few days and then hoping they can get another\r few days elsewhere in Los Angeles because they need to earn whatever\r they can to pay this month’s bills.

If\r you had the chance to ask any of these phony moral crusaders if they\r for a moment gave a thought to those who could potentially lose out\r on E3 not running for a day over an argument and charge that is\r obviously a non sequitur. In all likelihood most would not and\r probably would say that they are irrelevant to the quote unquote real\r world saving cause. Afterall reality is very different from the tiny\r narrow world they usually occupy by themselves. To them, that’s a\r problem.

Which\r takes us back to how they are no different to Jack Thompson, because\r it is not just simply due to those in the gaming press using the same\r arguments as Mr. Thompson. It is the fact that they, like Mr. Thompson\r delusionally think they are saving people.

When\r Mr Thompson ran against video games in his mind he was saving\r children from the horrors of mass shootings or becoming the mass\r shooter. Even though the data from academic research or scientific\r testing, or just observable common sense in reality, proved him wrong that those argued against him were, in his mind, morally repugnant.\r Afterall why would anyone prevent him from saving children?

After\r losing what would turn out to be the last suit against a game\r publisher he brought to court, Mr. Thompson would give the judge a\r letter about how they had potential child’s blood on their hands\r for allowing violent games to continue to made available and possibly\r played by children. The Florida Bar decided they were going to nip\r that nonsense in the bud and with his disbarment, we thought we saw\r the end of this crusade against gaming.

We\r haven’t of course and we now see it within gaming itself which to\r some, they might find perplexing but given that most of these\r Thompson-like crusaders have in recent years shown utter disdain for\r games and gaming culture it really should not be surprising at all.\r Just as Mr. Thompson did they crow about how they are just trying to\r save people and anyone that disagrees with them is, if not morally\r repugnant, at least morally questionable.

Yet\r again for failing to understand that gaming is an escapist medium,\r not for people to bury their heads in the sand and ignore all the\r problems in the world but just a chance to step away from the\r troubles for a few fleeting hours, not to mention ignoring the old\r adage of “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat\r it“ these puritans, who are already quickly becoming irrelevant\r with the rise of new media alternatives, will make that irrelevancy\r become absolute.

Which\r leads to my final question. How many more times are we going to go\r through this? It is as pointless as it is monotonous but people still\r insist in raising this debate. Whether you look at the 20 years\r gaming has been attacked for spurious reasons or entertainment in\r general from the 50’s onwards being smacked around as the cause for\r the ills of the world, gamers, academics and commentators are tired\r of this claptrap.

If\r it isn’t the existing studies that have already said that there is\r no link in violent games to real life violence then the sheer numbers\r of gamers who continue to pay for and play violent games will\r ultimately win the argument. I know that has me entering Argumentum\r Ad Populum however the numbers don’t lie. If somehow these moral\r crusaders convinced a company that violence or fun should not feature\r in future titles, gamers will simply take their money to another\r company that won’t cave in to puritan demands, so all that would be\r achieved is a significant number of developers will be out of a job\r and the gaming websites responsible fading into the abyss.

Don’t\r believe me? What happened with developer Tale of Tales? Or how about\r the “megaphone“ who claimed to be the epitome of Games\r Journalism?

So\r why continue to go down this road? History shows that this is a\r fool's errand with the only outcome being academics and scientists\r refusing to take you seriously, becoming the laughing stock and meme\r fodder for gamers and eventually being almost forced to fade into\r obscurity.

If\r you don’t want that to happen, rethink this debate. Leave gaming\r out of it and instead concentrate on something that is more relevant\r to the problem. If you do not want to be likend to Jack Thompson and\r all the trapping that entails, I cannot put this any more succinctly.

Stop\r being Jack Thompson!

Good\r night, and good luck.