What did we do to deserve this?

Crimson Dragon — also known as "the best reason to have a Kinect right now" — has been delayed.

The new shooter from many of the staff behind Panzer Dragoon was scheduled for release in Japan on 13th June, but Microsoft has put the release back for unspecified reasons.

We didn't have a final Western release date so this delay isn't really a big deal, but does mean we won't get the game for a while. Xbox.com currently lists its release as 31/12/2799, by which time we'll probably all have real dragons and laugh at the idea of video games.

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NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (puts Kinect back in box) "Kinect Exclusive Crimson Dragon Delayed" http://t.co/2bOy56wt

Just booked my tickets to see The Dark Knight Rises at the Bradford IMAX. The hype begins.

Just saw some Nintendo Letter Box stationery lets you jump right to the relevant game page in the eShop. Very smart!

I realise I'm in the 1% by saying this but I really like the look of Nintendo Land.

Prepare yourself

Nintendo's E3 showing this year gave plenty of stage time to some less familiar faces: Katsuya Eguchi and Scott Moffitt both spoke at length about Wii U and 3DS respectively, while president Satoru Iwata — traditionally the conference mainstay — mostly stayed behind the scenes to tweet. This video is probably his finest ever work, though.

If ever you've wanted to see one of the most powerful men in gaming talk to a toy and give the camera a thumbs-up (and that's a pretty specific desire) you'll like this video a lot.

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Had a great week @nintendolife, now ready for a chilled-out weekend before next week really gets motoring.

Crimson Dragon has a release date on http://t.co/mXIQhZVc. "ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 12/31/2799".. nnnooooooooooooo! http://t.co/Qawsn4K1

When (if?) I get through these next few days I think I'll treat myself to some Panzer Dragoon Saga.

Several in the works

Last year's Zelda HD experience was certainly graphically impressive, but as always Nintendo was keen to stress it was just an example of what's possible; we know from past experience Zelda tech demos often vastly differ from the finished product. Nintendo's main man Shigeru Miyamoto told Entertainment Weekly there are various Zelda Wii U experiments on the go, but nothing he's ready to talk about.

Miyamoto discussed the increasing trend towards "more casual experiences", musing on how Zelda might fit in:

But one thing that’s interesting is we’re seeing how the way that tastes are broadening in video games and you have some people who prefer more casual experiences, and you have some people who prefer sort of those more in-depth experiences. Obviously, as a company that’s been making games for a very long time, we tend to be more on the deeper, longer game side of things. But really what we continue to ask ourselves as we have over the years is, “What is the most important element of Zelda if we were to try to make a Zelda game that a lot of people can play?”

Miyamoto and team haven't settled on an answer yet:

So we have a number of different experiments going on, and [when] we decide that we’ve found the right one of those to really help bring Zelda to a very big audience, then we’ll be happy to announce it.

We have a feeling we might be happy too. Until we see more, you'll have to get your Zelda fix in the The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest game in Nintendo Land.

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