COMING 1984 It seems Konami couldn’t wait till the morning. The E3 trailer forMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painhas appeared online, and it’s one hell of a tease for whats to come. In the last few months, series creator Hideo Kojima shared some details about what to expect from this trailer — claiming that it would be light on action and more about the struggles and trials the characters will go through in the game....

IGN had a moment with Miyamoto himself, and quizzed him on potential franchises he would like to see on the Wii U. Out of all of the great series and IPs that Nintendo has to offer, Miyamoto focused on just two:MetroidandStar Fox. Miyamoto fawned over the idea of aMetroidgame using the Wii U’s Gamepad, stating, “withMetroidit’s very easy to imagine some interesting implementation for Wii U. I think that having another screen with the gyro built in really gives you a lot of interesting opportunities for development, and we can bring a lot of our games to life in a completely unique way with that....

More good news on the Sony front. According toPSU, Sony Online Entertainment and Midway have recently formed a collaboration to release six classic games on the PlayStation Network in 2007. All you lucky PS3 owners will soon be downloading and playingMortal Kombat II,Joust,Rampage World Tour,Rampart,Gauntlet IIandChampionship Sprint. Naturally, these will all be playable online. “We knew these titles would be a perfect fit for the PLAYSTATION Network, and based on Sony Online Entertainment’s legacy in the online space as well as their intimate knowledge of the PLAYSTATION Network, it was an obvious decision they would be a top company to work with to bring this project to fruition,” said Steve Allison, chief marketing officer, Midway....

Guest starring my blurry camera Last week, I was given a tour of the National Videogame Arcade in Nottingham, England by the Director, Iain Simons. Going in, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. I knew it wasn’t your bog-standard arcade withTime Crisis, Dance Dance Revolution, but I also wasn’t entirely sure if it was closer to a museum either. Since it opened in March 2015, I’ve heard plenty of things about events hosted there –Minecraftweekends, Gamejams, developer meetup evenings and the like, but never really about what’s there on a more permanent basis....

Also, Pok?mon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity DLC There’s quite a bit of diversity today on the Nintendo Download front, as the Wii U, 3DS, and Wii are all getting content. The Wii U will frontToki Tori 2(Wii U eShop, $13.49 until April 25th), which I’ll have a review up for today. The 3DS is gettingReal Heroes Firefighter 3D(3DS eShop),Gabrielle’s Ghostly Grove 3D(3DS eShop), and the originalCastlevania(3DS VC). Colors! 3D(3DS eShop) is also getting a free title update,escapeVektor(3DS eShop) is getting a half off sale until April 18th (now $4....

Hopefully this project lives on When Nintendo sent word over to the creator ofPokemon Prismthat he was to cease his efforts on his fan project immediately, that directive technically only applied to him. Although he can’t share, facilitate, update, or even talk aboutPrismanymore, the community hastaken to reddit, provideda walkthrough, and shared apastebinof their intentions, which include widely sharing the game and working on updates themselves to fix some major bugs....

If there’s one thing I’ve learned as a videogame fan, it’s that you’re able to always depend on being amused by what people in or associated with the gaming industry have to say during interviews. I usually look to names like Kutaragi and Pachter to get my daily dose of comedy gold for the day, but sometimes other sources make their presence known. Take for instance the following statements that the president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, said during an interview on Shigesato Itoi’sblog:...

Heart of darkness Two newZelda: Breath of the Wildvideos in one night? Everything’s coming up us! Eiji Aonuma couldn’t make it to The Game Awards, but he delivered a “we’re busy finishing this game!” message and handed it off to a video of Nintendo Treehouse playing through a previously-unseen jungle area. Come for the accordion-playing parrot man, stay for Bill Trinen’s Great Failure. Nintendo is sticking to its vague “2017” release target forBreath of the Wildon Wii U and Switch, and with the way this footage looks performance-wise, I am unquestionably going for the latter platform....

It’s like that movie Cars, but good Back in the ’90s, they had a mascot platformer for everything —a glove,a bandicoot,a star,the red dot from the 7UP logo— you name it. So why not an anthropomorphic taxi cab named Deppy that walks on its hind wheels? That’s what you get withTryrush Deppy, a Japan-only game for the Sega Saturn released in 1996 by developer System Supply N-Tech. The game takes place during a race across the United States....

Watch the above video.Just watch it. If what you see there doesn’t interest you, I’ll gnaw my arm off. I’m serious, just watch it before moving onto the next paragraph.Howdy. I find it extremely difficult to talk aboutBraid. As I’ve rightfully garnered a reputation as something of an “indiefag” here at Destructoid, seemingly lauding every independently-developed piece of software I touch until my face turns blue, most people find it difficult to take me seriously when I get really, really excited about an indie title....

Behold, courtesy ofJeux-France,delicious TV spots for Nintendo’s DS chapter in the venerableLegend of Zeldaseries,The Phantom Hourglass.Both the above video and the one contained after the jump show off the stylus controls that bring classicZeldaactions – such as the spin slash and boomerang throw – to life. While the sole use of the stylus is interesting, I remain quietly apprehensive about it working in practice. Tapping the screen to make yourAnimal Crossingcharacter move around, for example, was more an inconvenience than anything else, but if any title’s going to get it right, it’ll be one of Nintendo’s most treasured franchises....

We’ll all be featured on Hoarders Hey everybody, After the great response to Retroid’s first episode, we were eager to record another one for you. Unfortunately, I made a mistake during recording that made it take a lot longer to edit this show than the first one. Bear with me, I’m learning as I go. Fortunately, we had a backup recording going, but you might notice that Topher sounds a little different than you’re used to....

He’s a legend, no matter what It feels like yesterday, but the originalSonic the Hedgehogwas released in North America 25 years ago on June 23. Growing up as a Nintendo manin elementary school, I was mostly able to experienceSonicat my friends’ houses. It sounds like an overstatement but I was blown away at how great the gameplay was (especially when I’d play as Tails in the second entry), and all of the little secrets within (like the search for all the chaos emeralds, orSonic & Knuckle‘scart interconnectivity)....