This years Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is just around the corner! Just like last year, we here at WingDamage are going to throw down some predictions. Will we make total fools of ourselves? Will we make people suspicious that we have psychic powers? Only time will tell!

Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory

What will really happen:
3DS shown alongside some games making use of the new tech. Will be playable on show floor.

3DSWare Shop will be revealed as well as video streaming or downloading and publication reading features. Music streaming and other DSi features will all be included, too.

Zelda Wii will be shown, but won’t be playable on the show floor afterall.

New F-Zero game to commemorate 20th anniversary of series

Some sort of Vitality Sensor related software

Nintendo manages to not show a new Wii peripheral (crazy, I know)

New Wii Motion+ Software besides Zelda Wii

WiiParty will make people ignore anything good coming out of the Nintendo conference in favor of making fun of another minigame collection

Capcom announces sequel to a major franchise handled by a Western developer: Resident Evil 6, includes moving and shooting at the same time

PSP Resident Evil spinoff shown

Marvel vs Capcom 3 playable on Show Floor

Actual gameplay of The Last Guardian shown

Lots of Natal and Move info, including actual retail software from third party developers (but probably nothing groundbreaking)

Halo: Reach campaign shown off

First glimpse of Metal Gear Rising

Wishful thinking:
OMG MEGA MAN LEGENDS 3!!!1!!

Capcom’s new Western Developed sequel is Strider

Treasure to work on next Star Fox game

New Zone of the Enders finally official

Jonah “spambot” Gregory

Nintendo will show off several cool looking, core games, including Pikmin 3. The internet will say they are shocked to see a non-casual game on the Wii and that the graphics look good, to which they will quickly add “For a Wii game” so as to maintain their “street cred”.

Sony & Microsoft will try to convince us that motion gaming is going to revolutionize the industry (again); especially because of (wait for it) new 3D technology that they will both introduce at the show. They will try to play it up, but it will be either impracticable for home use or technologically underwhelming.

The most talked about game at the show will once again be something creative and interesting from a 3rd party or indie developer that no one has ever heard of; probably involving cute characters and a concept that, when you try to explain it to your peers, makes you sound like a crazy person.

Stuff I Want to See Announced

Borderlands 2. Addition of character creation, addition of armor loot that shows on character models. Guns that shoot guns that shoot armor onto your allies?

Pac-Man CE 2: Pac-Harder. They already said there is some new big surprise in store for Pac-Man. I want another game as amazing as Pac-Man CE.

Mass Effect 3. We all know it’s coming. A tease from Bioware would not be unexpected, nor unwelcome.

PSN Download service for PS2 games. It seems inevitable because of the lack of backwards compatibility, but Sony has still never done anything with it. Now is the time, Sony.

Dave “shaolinjesus” Corvin

Riding off the success of Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar will announce GTA 5. When asked about the setting and story for the game, Sam Houser, President of Rockstar, mumbles something about stealing cars and goes back to swimming in a pile of money, Scrooge McDuck style.

In a move that surprises exactly no one, Capcom will announce Super Street Fighter 4 Tournament Edition.

Following in Killzone 3‘s footsteps, a 3D Resistance 3 will be announced featuring 16-player co-op.

In an effort to compete with Apple, Nintendo’s 3Ds will pack some unexpected power. The system will be twice as powerful as an N64 with a much larger hard drive.

EA announces a new freakin’ Burnout. Sadly, it won’t be developed by Criterion since they are busy working on the new Need for Speed game.

With the OnLive gaming service launching during the show I expect a full on Rex Ryan style media blitz.

Wishful Thinking:
In a move that brings tears to the eyes of gamers everywhere, Capcom and Nintendo partner up to bring the world Capcom vs Nintendo.

Nintendo realizes there is a dump truck full of cash to be made and decides to make New Super Mario Bros. 2.

Fans of Giant Mechs and EXPLOSIONS rejoice as Microsoft announces Mechassault 3.

Probably won’t happen, but:
Microsoft brings back some of their forgotten franchises: Bloodwake, Quantum Redshift, and Blinx. Voodoo Vince is seen crying in a corner.

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