Games Inbox: Breath Of The Wild 2 Nintendo Direct, Splatoon 3 clones, and Assassin’s Creed apathy

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Giant-sized special So we’re getting a 40 minute Nintendo Direct today (Tuesday)? That is an unexpected bit of good news. I thought they’d just talk about the rumoured Wii U ports, maybe have another brief Zelda tease, and that’d be it. But that’s the length of an E3 Nintendo Direct!

I know it’s easy to get carried away with that fact, and it’s always best to expect nothing and not be disappointed, but surely we’ll be hearing about some new games as well. The only game scheduled for next year is Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2, so now would be the ideal time to reveal more new games. I’ve no idea what they’d be, but there must be plenty else that Nintendo is planning and they’ll want to give people a good reason to invest in a new Switch at Christmas.

Even if that doesn’t happen Breath Of The Wild 2 has got to be a shoe-in, I just don’t see how it doesn’t get at least a brief teaser and I’d hope and expect much more. After a desperately dull summer for games news and releases hopefully this is the turning point, or at least one good day.Onibee

Bad weekend I watched all of the Ubisoft Forward at the weekend but I really wish I hadn’t. I know some people are down on it but I’ve always been a fan of Assassin’s Creed and yet despite most of the show being about it they managed to announce so many games and then not