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"After a day of press conferences out the way, the E3 show floor is just moments away from opening - but not before Nintendo reveals its own games. The firm has already said not to expect new hardware, so instead expect a game-focused presentation. Expect plenty of Super Smash Bros, but in terms of new games, a Wii U Legend of Zelda is heavily expected as well as a new 3DS game. Otherwise, fingers crossed for a new Metroid.  Follow our ongoing E3 2014 coverage You can keep track of the announcements with the following live stream or via our blog updates below. The conference will start at 5pm UK time (12pm ET, 9am PT).  17:48And Nintendo&amp;#039;s digital event is over! Thanks for joining me. Stick around Digital Spy as we look to get up all the new trailers Nintendo debuted on the site. 17:45Kid Icarus and Link are doing battle in an anime-styled cutscene. Link&amp;#039;s about to deliver the final blow, but Palutena saves Icarus. The goddess is a new Smash Bros character on 3DS and Wii U. 17:43Reggie bids us all goodbye for now. But one more thing... 17:40The designers are talking the Wii U GamePad features and the strategy and layers they&amp;#039;ve added to make it overall an enjoyable experience. Splatoon&amp;#039;s out 2015. 17:37Here&amp;#039;s Splatoon, an 8-player 4v4 action game where you control territory by splattering ink everywhere. You&amp;#039;re a person/squid hybrid. Start off as a person to shoot ink. Transform into a squid at will to swim quickly in your own ink. 17:35It seems pretty intuitive and fun, but no details yet on sharing features and such. It&amp;#039;s out in 2015. 17:34Animated Reggie just shot laser eyes at a journo (ha) before Mario Maker is introduced. Create your own custom Mario courses. Super Mario Bros and New Super Mario Bros U skins are both included, which is ace. 17:32Monolith Soft&amp;#039;s Xenoblade Chronicles: X on Wii U. Some cutscenes where everything&amp;#039;s fighting each other. 2015. 17:30Kirby on 3DS in a new platformer. Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, coming 2015. 17:30Hyrule Warriors is coming along fine. Plenty of video of that. September 26, 2014. 17:27Bayonetta 2 time. Again, a nice amount of in-game footage. Includes the original Bayonetta... and you can dress up as Link? Or did I just imagine that? Anyway, Bayonetta 2&amp;#039;s out in October. 17:24Pokemon. Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire or whatever they&amp;#039;re called. A trailer&amp;#039;s showing plenty of in-game footage of the remakes of the Game Boy Advance entries. Looks neat. 17:23A creature is chasing Link on horseback. It catches up to him, but Link gets his bow out and... fade to white. &amp;quot;2015&amp;quot;. 17:22Eiji Aonuma is talking Zelda Wii U. It looks pretty. 17:18Next up... Wait, there&amp;#039;s a Toad game? An actual game where Toad is the lead character? Seems like an isometric puzzle platformer, inspired by Toad&amp;#039;s Mario 3D World minigame. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, out holiday 2014 on Wii U. 17:17There&amp;#039;s a two-player mode, where players can help each other out. Good-Feel wanted a handmade look to the game as well. Officially titled Yoshi&amp;#039;s Woolly World. 2015. 17:16Yarn Yoshi&amp;#039;s focused on exploration, and Yoshi&amp;#039;s abilities and the fact that he&amp;#039;s made of yarn are designed for that. 17:14Developer Good-Feel is talking about their upcoming Yarn Yoshi game. It looks pretty adorable. Much bigger than Yoshi&amp;#039;s New Island, that&amp;#039;s for sure. 17:11Smash Bros Wii U is the first game to support Amiibos. Mario Kart 8 will as well, but details will be unveiled at a later date. 17:11Reggie is talking about the Mario figurine Iwata used earlier. It&amp;#039;s one of the first in a new line of toys-to-life products called Amiibo. A special chip is embedded in every figure. Touch on it on your GamePad, and the figures spring to life. Character data is downloaded into the game you&amp;#039;re playing, while information can also be sent back to the figure. 17:07The 3DS version is almost complete. A trailer of sorts is showcasing new footage of the game. If you enjoyed sandbag home run, that&amp;#039;ll be on the handheld. October 3. 17:05Yep, everyone can use their own Miis in Smash Bros. Some work&amp;#039;s been done so they fit in with the game. Miis come in three varieties: brawlers, swordfighters and gunners. Each type is treated as a separate fighter, and each can choose four special moves from 12 options - a total of 36 total specials. 17:03Then Iwata gets out a Mario figurine, plonks it in proximity of the Wii U gamepad, and Mario delivers a beatdown on Reggie&amp;#039;s Mii. 17:02And... Satoru Iwata and Reggie are embroiled in a bizarrely and fun fight. Then they sit down to play some Smash Bros, using their Miis. Reggie wins. 17:01An animated version of Reggie announces there&amp;#039;ll be no new Mario games. It&amp;#039;s a pretty amusing clip, as Reggie fires a fireball or two at a journalist. 16:59Right, let&amp;#039;s get started. 16:57Smash Bros news is expected. There&amp;#039;ll probably be a Zelda reveal. That Mario Maker leak looks genuine enough. But I wouldn&amp;#039;t mind seeing some new original first-party franchises from Nintendo as well. 16:55Me personally, I would love a brand new 2D Metroid for 3DS. I know many swear by the Prime trilogy, but I&amp;#039;ve always preferred Zero, Fusion and Super. 16:51The digital event promises &amp;quot;updates on Nintendo&amp;#039;s upcoming projects&amp;quot; as well as fresh game announcements. One of them seems likely to be a new Star Fox game for Wii U, which I know would delight a few people in the office. 16:48Nintendo Direct is starting in just over ten minutes. In the meantime, the stream is throwing out a few tidbits. Did you know it was ten years ago in 2004 when Reggie Fils-Aime made his E3 stage debut? 16:46Hello and welcome to Digital Spy&amp;#039;s coverage of Nintendo&amp;#039;s E3 presentation! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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