It's been confirmed that Retro Studio's secret project was the new Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, but they almost went with another Metroid game. I guess we'll have to look beyond Retro Studios for some Star Fox love.

Super Smash Bros., for both 3DS and Wii U was shown, and Fox makes his expected appearance, but no other Star Fox characters were seen. Keep an eye on the official game site for new character reveals. There have already been two today: Animal Crossing's Villager and the Female Wii Fit Trainer.

Other than that, Nintendo had a great press conference, in my opinion. They showed lots of good looking, interesting games and provided a couple of nice surprises like the sequel to Xenoblade. The only thing that could have made this presentation perfect would be a surprise Star Fox (obviously) or actual footage of the new 3D Zelda game they're apparently working on (NOT the Wind Waker remake, which also looks fantastic).

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Nintendo tweeted today the date and time of their E3 Nintendo Direct for North America, where they are expected to reveal most, if not all, of their games for the Fall and early 2014.

Tuesday, June 11th @ 7AM Pacific

This corresponds to the first official day of E3 expo proper, but the day after the official keynotes of Microsoft, Sony, Ubisoft, and EA. Might actually be a smart move, because Nintendo's announcements will likely be the "newest" news available that day, everyone else having already revealed their stuff the day before, fighting among themselves for attention.

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The Nintendo Direct WILL feature a video of the new Super Smash Bros. Source

As you all probably heard, Nintendo will not have a keynote at E3 this year. Instead, they will do more of their own Nintendo Direct video presentations leading up to the show, and present small, closed-door meetings at E3 proper (and likely have a show floor presence).

An announcement was made today that tomorrow morning, at 7AM Pacific time, we will be getting our first Nintendo Direct of this type. This one is to be about upcoming Wii U games for summer and fall 2013. You know what that means! If they are set to reveal Retro Studio's new game, and actual details on the next Smash Bros, this is the first place we might see them. Fingers crossed!

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There will be other Nintendo Direct for Europe tomorrow as well, and possibly Japan, so be on the lookout for news.

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No Star Fox or Smash this time. The direct was mostly about the new Mario and Sonic Winter Olympic Games, Pikmen 3, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, Resident Evil, New Super Luigi U, and a bunch of little details and launch dates on games that we already knew about or expected. There will be another Nintendo Direct coming "around the time of E3," so we'll have to look forward to that.

Engadget is reporting (via GoNintendo) that recent checkins of Google's Chrome OS have used Fox, Falco, Slippy, Peppy, Mario, Sonic, etc as placeholders for upcoming devices that will boot directly to Chrome OS. Glad we have some fellow Star Fox fans among the engineers at Google.

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As promised, here's a new episode of the Krystal Archive Podcast. This time I go over Further Confusion, my current life situation, and some plans to use third-party systems to improve the Krystal Archive.

If you want to go ahead and join the DeviantArt group, it can be found here: Krystal Archive on DeviantArt

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I made a couple of small changes to the Krystal Music page, a couple of the files were missing and an astute person mentioned that we didn't have the song from when Krystal gets trapped in the crystal.

I'm planning to do another podcast episode this weekend. There's been a LOT of stuff going on in my RL life, so I have much to tell with regard to updates and why I haven't been responding to emails. Thanks for being patient. All will be explained soon.

Sorry for the long wait. After years of delays and many hours of editing the past couple days, I'm proud to finally be able to release the interview you've all be waiting to hear. I decided to make it a video interview much like the previous FATPodcast episode we posted a couple months back. Which voice actress? I'll give you two guesses!

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Happy April Fools' Day Everybody!

Sorry for the delay, but DarkFantasyTV has posted his interview with Alésia Glidewell, the voice of Krystal in Star Fox Assault and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, among other characters. There is also some extra, behind the scenes video (language warning) and some additional blog posts about Alésia's more recent work.

DarkFantasyTV (aka SketchBook, aka Nestor) is planning a video interview with Alésia Glidewell, the voice of Krystal in Assault and Brawl, and the voice of may other characters. The interview is scheduled for March 15th.

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As promised, her's two other videos of Ayano cosplaying as Krystal from Further Confusion 2011. The first video is someone handing her their Subway sandwich, a la the "Krystal can't enjoy her sandwich" meme. The second one is about a small wardrobe malfunction she experienced. The little clips on the sides of her loincloth have a tendency to fall off (one fell off this year too).

Downloads of the full version are available too!

• Krystal Finally Enjoys Her Sandwich
• Wardrobe Malfunction