AND THE WINNER IS ... !!!

So it's the end of E3 week and it's time to look back at those predictions cast by the lame JB and awesome Dan CC!

Wii Party

Dan CC - "less than 10 mins" coverage / Jonny - "10 - 20 mins" coverage

Winner - Dan CC! (approx 5 mins)

Wii Vitality

Dan CC - "15-30 mins" coverage / Jonny - "less than 15 mins" coverage

Winner - NO-ONE! (it didn't appear - but it still exists! ;) )

Zelda Wii

Dan CC - "playable press demo" / Jonny - "playable showfloor demo"

Winner - Jonny!

3DS Name

Dan CC & Jonny - "still 3DS name"

Winner - Dan CC & Jonny! (aww)

3DS

Dan CC - "shown + playable + on showfloor" / Jonny - "shown + playable + behind closed doors"

Winner - Dan CC!

Epic Mickey

Dan CC - "appears and changed in appearance" / Jonny - "appears and not changed in appearance"

Winner - Dan CC! (yummy yummy)

Goldeneye

I did change my prediction (one day after my original and well before E3 started) to the correct one, but Jonny is doing so badly I think I'll give him a break here! ^_^

Dan CC - "rumour is true / doesn't appear" / Jonny - "rumour is false / doesn't appear"

Winner - NO-ONE! (both true AND appeared)

Xenoblade & Last Story

Dan CC & Jonny - "hoped for the very best"

Nintendo - FUCK YOU DAN CC & JONNY! (Here's hoping for TGS...)

Wii HD (alternate title: Jonny's personal crusade against Nintendo)

Dan CC - "Jonny is betrayed (No Wii HD!) / Jonny - "Jonny is vindicated (Wii HD!)

Winner - Nintendo & Dan CC

Retro Studios project

Dan CC - "not revealed" / Jonny - "revealed"

Winner - Jonny!

Iwata

Dan CC & Jonny - "comes out"

Winner - Dan CC & Jonny (Iwata is gay!)

Shigsy

Dan CC - "appears" / Jonny - "appears dressed as Nintendo character"

Winner - Dan CC! (he appeared with wiimote & nunchuck which for a fleeting moment were superimposed with sword and shield on screen - was not a character appearance like this)

Super Scribblenauts

I'm not really sure how to call this one, unless we look at impressions? Not that it matters though, as you'll see below! ;)

Mario DS 2

Dan CC - "not announced" / Jonny - "announced"

Winner - Dan CC! (oddly enough not even for 3DS!)

Pikmin vs Kirby

Dan CC - "Kirby will appear" / Jonny - "Pikmin will appear"

Winner - Dan CC!

Starfox vs Kid Icarus

Dan CC & Jonny - "Starfox"

Winner - Dan CC & Jonny! (well it might not have been announced on-stage as Kid Icarus was, but it was part of the E3 line-up announced - we should have voted in opposition for this as it would have been the sweetest double victory of the lot if we had.)

SO THE RESULTS

DAN CC - AN ALL-MIGHTY 10 POINTS!
JONNY - a measly 5 points!

DAN CC IS THIS YEAR'S E3 WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is going to get pretty ugly

E3 PREDICTIONS

Wii Party will take up how much time?	Won’t appear	Less than 10 mins	10-20 mins	20 mins+
Wii Vitality	Won’t appear	Less than 15 mins	15-30 mins	30 mins+
Zelda Wii	Only talked about / more artwork	Trailer or video footage shown	Playable Press demo	Playable showfloor demo
3DS name	Still ‘3DS’		New name
3DS	Only shown and talked about	Shown + games	Shown + playable games behind closed doors	Shown + playable games on show floor
Epic Mickey	Won’t appear	Appears and not changed in appearance	Appears and changed in appearance
Goldeneye	Rumour is false / doesn’t appear	Rumour is true / but doesn’t appear	Rumour is true / appears
Xenoblade	NOTHING (fuck you Nintendo)		Western localisation announced
The Last Story	NOTHING (fuck you Nintendo)	Mentioned and some details	Trailer or footage but no word about Localisation	THE WHOLE SHIBANG BABY YEAH
Wii HD	Jonny is vindicated (Wii HD!)		Jonny is betrayed (No Wii HD!)
Retro Studios project	Revealed		Not revealed
Iwata	Comes out.		Stays in the Closet
Shigsy	Non Show	Appears	Appears dressed as Nintendo Character
Super Scribblenauts	Adjectives pretty limited	AWESOME ADJECTIVES.
Mario DS 2	Announced	Not announced
Pikmin vs Kirby	Pikmin	Kirby
Starfox vs Kid Icarus	Starfox	Kid Icarus

MegadamegadamegadaMAN!

Megaman 10 came out this week on WiiWare.

It's the type of news that fills you with 80s-style NES-powered irrepressible joy.



And if you're Jon Bon Jovi and filled with 80s-style NES-powered irrepressible joy, this happens.

So Steam is coming to the mac?

YEAH. You already know right?
Well that's the downside to doing a videogame blog.

YOU CAN'T JUST POST A FUCKING PRESS RELEASE.

Because the whole world got there before you. You've got to actually have some kind of interesting commentary or amusing tale to share.

Well sorry, but I don't.

Steam on mac just makes me fucking happy. Almost as happy as the Portal 2 tidbits that Valve are prickteasing us with. I'd buy Left for Dead again purely to play on some of the awesome user created missions that I CAN'T FUCKING GET ON MY 360. Yes, I realise most other WELL-RESEARCHED blogs would assign a separate link to an 'awesome user created mission' to each individual word in that phrase. But to be honest with you, I can't be arsed.

What this blog lacks in content, it more than makes up for in HONESTY.

Nintendo European Summit - HIDDEN INFORMATION EXPLOSION

We have found a startling discovery hidden away in the deepest crevices of the Nintendo European Summit. Quite LITERALLY in the text of "Nintendo European Summit"...

Nintendo European Summit = N.E.S.

Mind Blown.

SURELY this can only mean that an official N.E.S. Wii controller is on the way. We rang up Nintendo to ask them about it and they 100% confirmed our suspicions with this comment...

"Nintendo do not comment on rumour or speculation"

REMEMBER PEEPS: A DENIAL IS PRACTICALLY A CONFIRMATION!

Wahoooo!

EXCLUSIVE LOOK AT MARIO GALAXY 2's THIRD WORLD

Unfortunately due to 'security concerns' Blow Your Cart could not attend this week's Nintendo European Summit.

NEVER FEAR THOUGH!

We rang up our Ninty mole (Let's just call him Mr R) and he leaked us an EXCLUSIVE shot from Mario Galaxy 2's, until now, unseen Third World. Nobody else on the interwebs has this!

As this is SO top secret we've had to host the image on a separate server located in Denmark. When you're ready, continue reading by clicking that lovely little READ MORE link down there.

Nintendo Summit takes place on some undetermined orbital space satellite

So on Feb 24th Nintendo gave us an insight into some of the shizzle they got going down for the first half of this year.

Joanna Dark Cammie Dunaway was first on the scene to show she still retains the ability to list impossibly large numbers ad nauseam as well as demonstrate she has acquired Steve Job's magical ability of XLing hardware with the power of her own hands.

Nintendo also reaffirmed its new strategy for Yoshi torture: including inflation fetishism and setting its ass on fire to make it run faster. But without a doubt the biggest bombshell dropped at this year's summit was...

9:14

Cammy was vacationing in Fl. Might explain the new hairdo. ;P

Cave Story, S&P2, Dragon Quest IX, Monster Hunter Tri and Metroid: Other M also got a mention.


Aside from her new perfectly dark look, Cammie seems to be on a mission to earn herself brownie points among the more avid gamers as she later teased the release of Zelda Wii for the latter part of 2010 in an interview with Wired:

Wired.com: You’ve announced major games for the first half of the year. Do you see the game industry moving toward a more year-long release schedule, in general?

Dunaway: One of the things that’s true for Nintendo is that we’re not driven by a calendar for our release dates. When the games are ready to go, when the quality is perfect, that’s when we release. We all benefit if we can keep a pretty steady pace, so the development teams have worked hard to make sure that we’ve got a full lineup this year. If you compare the first half of 2010 with the first half of 2009, it’s night and day. And from some of the things that Mr. Iwata has talked about, and that we will talk about at E3, like Zelda, you know that we’re going to have a good back half of the year, as well.

Wired.com: I think people were really interested to know, are they going to release Mario and Metroid and Zelda all in one year?

Dunaway: And you said we wouldn’t. You bet no, right?

Wired.com: I bet no. Are you going to hold me to that? Do I owe you a steak dinner?

Dunaway: I think you do.

But one mystery still remains...

Where was Reggie in all this?