#E3 2013

[ethernalium]

[lrandconkdors]

I have been p🤬🤬ed about this one joke in Brawl in the Family for years.

like, the joke seems to be "it's supposed to be the year of Luigi, yet we keep hearing about new Mario games! 🤓" yeah no duh. Is this comic arguing that if Nintendo really wanted to do Luigi justice, they would have simply. not announced all these big-hitter games at E3, pushed the release of 3D World to the next year, and removed Mario from Smash and replaced him with Dr. Luigi or something? and people thought our universe's Year of Luigi led to disaster.

[bassforte]

It’s getting closer to June which is game announcing season, and I swear to god I’m going insane Capcom please put Bass in something new that isn’t a gacha game, it’s been 14 years I’m-

[thepastisalreadywritten]

20 January 2023

Despite the fact that 2023 has only started, the cosmos are already poised to create history. 

A comet that was just recently identified will be visible in a few weeks during what is likely to be its one and only documented appearance.

The comet is expected to have traveled billions of kilometers from its thought beginnings near the fringe of our solar system.

In March 2022, the comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was initially seen when it passed through Jupiter's orbit.

It's a long-period comet that NASA believes originated in the Oort Cloud, the furthest area of the solar system, which is described as "like a gigantic, thick-walled bubble formed of frozen chunks of space debris" and may grow to be even larger than mountains. 

According to estimates, the inner boundary of this zone is located between 2,000 and 5,000 astronomical units (AUs), or 186 billion and 465 billion miles, from the sun.

This indicates that C/2022 E3 (ZTF) has traveled on a unique, exceptional voyage to be near Earth.

C/2013 A1 Siding Spring, a recent comet of this sort, already visited the inner solar system and passed close to Mars in 2014.

However, the space agency estimates that it won't return for around 740,000 years.

According to Jessica Lee, an astronomer from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the E3 comet may provide a similar scenario.

The freshly found E3 comet will now reach its closest approach to the sun on January 12.

It has been seen to have a vivid greenish coma and "short wide" dust tail.

On February 2, it will get as near to Earth as it will.

According to NASA, the comet will be seen with binoculars if everything goes according to plan and its brightness trend continues.

Away from city lights, it could also be seen with the unaided eye. According to NASA, the comet will be visible in the morning hours of January in the northern hemisphere and in the early morning hours of February in the southern hemisphere.

[smallmariofindings]

Promotional photo of Yoshiaki Koizumi, director and producer of a wide variety of Mario games, at E3 2013, wearing Cat Mario ears and paws to promote Super Mario 3D World (which he also was the producer of).

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[suppermariobroth]

High-resolution Dream World background included in promotional E3 2013 material for Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.

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[purplelurkinghini]

You, sir, have been to church. Very good. (x)

Da Vinci's Demons (2015) S3:E3 || Batman Unburied (2022) S1:E1 || Da Vinci’s Demons (2015) S3:E3 || Batman Unburied (2022) S1:E3 || Da Vinci's Demons (2015) S3:E3 || The Harvester by ilovedust || Blake Ritson as Girolamo Riario in Da Vinci's Demons (2015) S3:E6 || Batman Unburied (2022) S1:E1

Welcome under the cut!

Now that you’re here, I advise you to sit down for a minute while I talk at you about this post.

It’s been sitting in my drafts since February. I actually got around to screen capping and gif making as soon as I finished season 2 and 3 of Da Vinci’s Demons. I had already watched the first season back in 2013. And I’m pretty sure I was the only one watching it. Well, there was me and the mysterious stranger who put it up on this one illegal streaming website that I’m not even sure exists anymore.

However, everyone else was all about ice zombies and fire-proof dragons back then, so I had nobody to talk to about it. I ended up having GOT watch parties with my friends and putting DVD in the back of my mind.

Now, why did I binge two entire seasons of decade-old television? Because Pinterest recommended a couple of Count Riario (Blake Ritson) pins to me and I experienced a flashback to my first ever exam season. Yes, I did take breaks to snack on junk food and watch David S. Goyer’s Renaissance Men Fight Demons (Bisexuality).

Why, yes, the show does have the same producer/head writer as Batman Unburied! The man sure loves himself some Tortured Geniuses (Leonardo & Bruce) and Catholic Guilt-Ridden Serial Killers (The Harvester & The Count in the last season). And so do I!

Alright, you can get up now!

Thank you for reading!

[zeldauniverse]

Breath of the Wild Was Too Ahead of its Time

It has now been over a decade since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was first revealed at E3 2014. A game that still feels fresh, especially with its recent sequel, has captivated audiences since its release seven years ago. The journey began on January 23, 2013, when series producer Eiji Aonuma announced that the new mission for the series would be to “rethink the conventions of Zelda.”…

[finfinfan1997]

During E3 '98, Fujitsu announced a TEO spinoff called "BioPunX".

It never released and the trademark was abandoned in 2002. Very little evidence of this game exists beyond a few publications.

"The latest product that is intended to appeal more to men is the computer game " BioPunX "."

- Wirtschaftswoche - Volume 52, Issues 46-49 - Page 116 (1998)

"This is a simulation program, featuring four "BioPunX" creatures. Each has a unique personality and attitude. The idea is to train them so they can complete a mission. Not yet reviewed."

- Complete Sourcebook on Children's Software (1999 and 2001)

"...a new generation of games in which artificial creatures save the earth in 3D animation. Anyone who wants to can even communicate with the "Biopunx" using voice recognition."

- DIE WELT: Mehr Glück im Computerspiel (27.08.1998)

In 1999, Fujitsu Interactive went out of business. However, Shigetoshi Akasaki, the president of Fujitsu Interactive, announced that the game was still being worked on in a GameSpot article a year later.

Two years after this announcement, the "BioPunX" trademark was officially abandoned.

In 2013, the rights to "Biopunks" and "Biopunx" were acquired by some German lawyers who have held onto it ever since.

This wasn't really Fin Fin related but I just wanted to talk about this because nobody has compiled info about this game anywhere else.

[bcofl0ve]

where to buy/rent/stream every piece of media austin butler has ever been in, a comprehensive masterpost

(a lot of these things you can pirate one way or another, but for the sake of promoting media consumption that benefits the creative teams and casts i only included official links/platforms)

The Faithful (2007) : LOST MEDIA outside of the trailer here. If you have any leads on where to find this please let me know!

Hannah Montana (2006-2007) Season 1 E11 and Season 2 E7: Buy the individual episodes on Amazon or stream on Disney+.

Neds Declassified (2005-2007) Season 2 E1-20 and Season 3 E1-21: Paramount+, or you can buy each season on Amazon for $12.99 each.

iCarly (2007) Season 1 E4: Stream on Paramount+, or you can buy the individual episode for $2.99 on Amazon.

Out Of Jimmy's Head (2008) Season 1 E16: Unfortunately I couldn't find the episode in English anywhere but if you just want to see bby Austin you can watch it in Romanian here.

Zoey 101 (2007-2008) Season 3 E11 and Season 4 E4-12: Stream on Paramount+, or you can buy the individual episodes on Amazon.

Aliens in The Attic (2009): Stream on Max or rent/buy it on Amazon.

Ruby and The Rockits (2009): Buy on Amazon.

Zeke and Luther (2009) Season 1 E17: Stream on Hulu.

Wizards of Waverly Place (2010) Season 3 E10: Stream on DisneyNow or buy the episode on Amazon.

Jonas (2010) Season 1 E1-E2: Stream on Apple TV or Disney+

CSI Miami (2010) Season 9 E8: Stream on Paramount+ or buy from Amazon.

The Defenders (2010) Season 1 E10: Buy on Amazon.

Betwixt (2010): LOST MEDIA. If you have any leads on where to find this please message me!

Life Unexpected (2010-2011) Season 1 E5, 6, 8, 9 11 Season 2 E3, 5, 7, 9, 13: Stream on Paramount+.

CSI NY (2011) Season 7 E17: Stream on Hulu or Paramount+.

Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure (2011): Stream on Disney+.

The Bling Ring (2011): Stream on Hulu.

Are You There, Chelsea? (2012) Season 1 E3: Watch for free on Daily Motion.

Switched at Birth (2011-2012) Season 1 E4-8, 10 Season 2 E11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22: Stream on Hulu or ABC.

My Uncle Rafael (2012): Rent or buy from Amazon.

Intercept (2012): LOST MEDIA. If you have any leads on where to find this please message me!

Life Life in Space Space: LOST MEDIA save for this trailer. If you have any leads on where to find this please message me!

The Carrie Diaries (2013-2014): Stream on the CW or buy from Amazon.

Arrow (2014-2015) Season 3 E7 Season 4 E11, 13: Stream on Netflix or buy from Amazon.

The Intruders (2015): Rent/buy from Amazon.

Yoga Hosers (2016): Stream on Tubi, The Roku Channel or Pluto TV. Rent/buy from Amazon.

The Shannara Chronicles (2016): Stream on Tubi or buy from Amazon.

Dude (2018): Stream on Netflix.

The Dead Don't Die (2019): Stream on Cinemax or rent/buy from Amazon.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019): Stream on Starz or rent/buy from Amazon.

Elvis (2022): Stream on Max and (in some countries) Netflix or rent/buy on Amazon.

Masters of The Air (2024): Stream on Apple TV!

Dune Part Two: In theaters in early 2024!

The Bikeriders: In theaters June 21st 2024!

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

Love reading all the new articles and updates about Dragon Age and it's really hard at this point to reign in my expectations. The gameplay showcase made me want to go back to the Inquisition demos that I watched during 2014 that got me super hyped. I was curious just how much from those gameplay reveals didn't make it into the release version of the game; I could remember bits and pieces that I was disappointed didn't make it in, but going back over these vids I'm shocked at just how much was overpromised in the months leading up to release. The demos Bioware showed during 2014 were a completely different beast from the final game. Just in the PAX (Sept 2013, so a year pre-release) and post-E3 demos (Jul 2014, four months pre-release) we've got:

Different camera controls allowing for a more over-the-shoulder style, very similar to what we've seen for Veilguard actually

Combat while moving for mages, as well as drastically different combat animations for everyone, including autoattacking with one's hand rather than the staff

Hyperviolence that never made it into the final game like that one enemy being magicked into a skeleton

The mounts actually speeding up travel

Promises of dwindling bear numbers in the environments the more you kill

Environmental things like boats actually moving across the water in real time

Dynamic events and attacks on the keeps the Inquisitor can claim, rather than the keeps sitting around

On that note, I didn't even remember one of the most bold-faced lies during that Crestwood demos "You can burn these boats to cut off the Red Templar's retreat", crazy stuff

Big choices like choosing between saving villagers or saving your keep

The promise that you can upgrade the keeps once captured

That whole cutscene with Varric that didn't make it into the final game

The content from that post-E3 demo in particular is from pretty much where Veilguard is now. You can see in this IGN vid from August 2014 (roughly two months pre-release and two months after the post-E3 demo) just how much changed in that marketing cycle.

Something I think is really interesting about this retrospective is just how much the gameplay of this unrealised Inquisition game is similar to the Veilguard content. Does that mean that the Reveal gameplay, with the camera POV and smooth action combat isn't representative of the final result? I should hope not. I would hope that the faster gameplay is what Bioware has been aiming towards all along, and have just been stuck with platform limitations until now.

Anyway this was an interesting exercise in examining my own history with the games and why I take everything Bioware tries to market to me in the next few months with a very healthy dose of skepticism. Don't get me wrong, the game looks great, but Inquisition also looked a little too good to be true in a lot of aspects

[glitchdecay]

Suzuki Tatsuhisa Talks Behind-the-Scenes of FFXV: Part 1

Part 1 of a series of translations I did! Check more here~

Listen along here! This part goes from 1:17–3:24.

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The video is an episode of 島津真太郎の週末ゲームCAMP (Shimazu Shintarou's Weekend Game Camp), a radio show that brings in people from the video game industry to chat about what they do. In this episode, host Shimazu Shintarou (CEO of event company groundinglab Co., Ltd., with years of experience in the VG industry) is assisted by voice actor and singer Kubota Miyu.

The guest is, of course, voice actor and former OLDCODEX frontman Suzuki Tatsuhisa, the voice of everyone's favorite sleepy prince, Noctis Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy XV!

Shimazu Shintarou: You've played Ban in Nanatsu no Taizai, Takao in Kuroko no Basuke, and Tachibana Makoto in Free!... But I wonder. Because to me, you'll always be that guy from Final Fantasy XV.

Suzuki Tatsuhisa: I get it. I was involved with it for a long time, after all. It took about 10… Maybe 12 years? Until it came out. 

SS: I mean, it used to be something else, right? [Final Fantasy] Versus XIII, wasn't it?

ST: Yeah, yeah. Speaking of which, the people at Square Enix were battling themselves with fear at the time. They always told me not to tell anyone about it.

SS: You had to be careful about it.

ST: Yeah, yeah.

SS: I'll tell you what happened from my perspective. The game was supposed to be a spin-off game of Final Fantasy XIII. And [Tatsu] was supposed to be in it. That was what I heard behind the scenes. 

SS: Yeah, and I was amazed. He's going to be in a Final Fantasy game. A Final Fantasy spin-off.

SS: Every year, I'd be involved in this thing called E3 in Los Angeles where all the world's biggest game companies… It's no longer a thing this year, though. 

ST: Yeah, it's no longer a thing.

SS: I was there every year. There was an announcement at the Square Enix booth, and when I watched it… It wasn't the Square Enix booth, but the Sony one. A Sony conference booth.

ST: Sony conference.

SS: Or something like that. They were about to announce what would happen to Versus XIII. [T/N: Watch here for the FFXV announcement trailer at E3 2013.]

SS: And I thought, "That's the one Tatsu is in. What's gonna happen to it?" At the very end, the Versus XIII logo got all "drdrdrdrdr" and changed. It wasn't a XIII-related title, but XV. 

ST: Yeah, the 15th main title. 

SS: The 15th main title.

SS: And it [the ordinal number "15th"] was read in Tatsuhisa's voice.

SS: So I was like, "What? It's going to be a numbered title?" That's when I realized that my friend, whom I've known since the days he couldn't get cast in anything, was in the game series that had some of the best games in my life, as the protagonist of a numbered title in that series. 

ST: Yeah. It was going to be in the form of an alternate game, but it ended up becoming one with a numbered title. At the time, Shinta was working with Square Enix and heard about the development, but he didn't expect that it'd be a numbered title. I wasn't allowed to talk about it either.

Kubota Miyu: Of course.

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[reluctantjoe]

Yonderland (2013-2016) / Hitmen: Reloaded (2021)

MATHEW BAYNTON Christopher Payne | 3.03: The Bird & The Bee Kieran Roberts | E3: Impersonation

[roamingberry]

It looks like there's leaked footage from the Gamescom/E3 2013 demo for SoT. It takes place during the School Attack and has some UI differences. Tweek's voice is also unfinalized and it sounds like Stan. Here's the link to the video: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x146qwl

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

Against my better judgment, in honor of E3’s death, I’ve decided to share my tags for it over the years, documenting only a small portion of the insanity the kh fandom has gone through

E3 2013 Madness

E3 2014 Madness

E3 2015 Madness

E3 2016 Madness

what happened in 2017 lmao

E3 2018 Madness

[ryurakayano]

Watch "FINAL FANTASY XV - Announcement Trailer | E3 2013" on YouTube

This trailer came out on June 12 2013, which makes it 10 years old as of today.

I would love to see the dimension where this stayed Versus XIII and was released as something like this trailer showed