Wired:
We’ve heard quite a bit about the games that made the biggest splashes at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. But several titles were conspicuous by their absence.
E3, which took place June 15 to 17 in Los Angeles, is the premier trade show for the global gaming industry. Every major maker of videogame software and hardware saves its big guns for the expo, hoping to outshine the competition with the best games and most shocking announcements.
Sometimes the biggest news at the dog-and-pony show comes from the dogs that don’t bark. Whether the silence stems from publishers focusing on other products, or is an indication that the game’s development is in trouble, an E3 no-show doesn’t exactly inspire a vote of confidence.
With this year’s event in the rearview mirror, Wired.com rounded up a list of the top 10 games missing in action at E3 2010, arranged in ascending order of how surprised we were that they didn’t make the big show.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Its a good list, I think everyone was expecting at least a few of those to be present. Personally AGENT would have been the only game on that list that wouldve made up for the rest IMO.
And maybe now people can realize why everyone is so underwhelmed with kinects offerings. Look at how little MS delivered with kinect compared to the earlier promises.
"Did you guys play that martial-arts game that uses Kinect, Microsoft’s promising new motion controller for Xbox 360? Or the one where you smash a city as Godzilla? Or the skateboarding game where you scan in your own decks? Or the facial recognition software that lets you try on new clothes? Or the four-player quiz game? Or the Netflix app that lets you flick and wave through movies?
Oh, you mean none of that actually exists and all you played was a knockoff of Wii Sports?"