Nintendo's performance at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June boosted purchasing plans for Wii U by 50 percent, according to a new report. A survey carried out by IHS on behalf of the Gamer Network polled 1,000 "core" gamers about their purchasing intentions for various consoles and games before and after the annual trade show in Los Angeles.

Evolve was the big winner among critics - the game was honored with four E3 2014 Game Critics Awards including Best of Show, the awards organizers announced today. Evolve is an action game developed by Turtle Rock and published by 2K Games, pitting hunters against a monster in an arena - with players taking on the role of both monster and hunters.

The awards are chosen by games journalists from 29 publications.

No Man's Sky was the second biggest winner, picking up three awards including Best Original Game and Special Commendation for Innovation.

The latest episode of the Conan O'Brien segment "Clueless Gamer" chronicles the lanky talk show host (weeknights on TBS) visiting the Electronic Entertainment Expo (which took place last week in Los Angeles) where he goofs off with "booth babes" and attendees, and plays a number of games including Hyrule Warriors, Sunset Overdrive, Forza Motorsport 5, a luge game using Sony's Project Morpheus VR headset, and a whole lot more.

It's goofy fun for 70 percent of the family. You can check out the video to your left.

A new blog post from Twitch reveals that its deal with the ESA to live-stream E3 Expo press conferences (and other content) was a smashing success for the company.

We held an impromptu live episode of Super Podcast Action Committee to sound off about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Electronic Entertainment Expo that ended on Friday. What better day than Friday the 13th is there to do a podcast? What could possibly go wrong? Find out by watching this video of the show featuring hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight.

Microsoft hasn't been the best of friends with the PC gaming community over the last few years. While the company says that it has a lot of faith in the PC gaming space, you can always tell how strongly they feel about something by how much they highlight it at E3. And at this year's E3 Microsoft didn't even talk about PC games or show any that we know of.

The Entertainment Software Association released attendance numbers for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which is still taking place in Los Angeles. According to the trade group representing the video games industry, 48,900 video game industry professionals, investor analysts, journalists, and retailers from more than 100 countries attended this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles.

In another interview with Polygon about female character options, this time in Far Cry 4, another Ubisoft employee blamed an increased work load for the game not featuring more options. Far Cry 4 game director Alex Hutchinson said that the team were "inches away" from allowing players to choose between a man or woman co-op buddy in the upcoming shooter's multiplayer... but it never materialized.

Investment research firm Baird Equity Research has released a report related to E3, providing predications and opinions on the biggest players. One of the more interesting predictions is that Sony will preload digital copies of Bungie's Destiny and Blizzard's Diablo III beginning this fall. The firm says that this will be an optional thing for consumers. This "should drive higher sell-through for Activision, but at the cost of retail sales," the firm notes.

It's E3 week and Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sony and Nintendo are doing their damnedest to convince us to buy their stuff.

Earlier this week, Nintendo had a digital event announcing it's upcoming games while the other four hosted full press conferences.  Who had the best show?

If you need a refresher, you can read our recaps here: 

Last week we asked our readers, Who Will Have the Biggest Gaffe During Its E3 Presentation? A slight majority of those who voted believed that Microsoft would have the most mistakes during its Xbox E3 press event that took place on Monday.

Ubisoft is taking a little bit of heat this week for not including female co-op character options in its latest Assassin's Creed, but developers working on the game say that those options were not included because they ran into "the reality of production."

On this week's show hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight talk about who the GamePolitics community thinks will make the biggest E3 gaffe this year, President Obama name-dropping The Witcher, the new GOG.com DRM-free and platform-agnostic multiplayer client (Galaxy) and Verizon threatening to sue Netflix for talking about its service performance (This show was recorded prior to all of this week's E3 press conferences and announcements).

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime attempted to address concerns that there has been a real lack of third-party titles for the Wii U announced so far this week, but didn't actually mention any third-party titles. During Nintendo's E3 Direct feed yesterday Nintendo didn't highlight one company outside of its own brand that is developing a game for the Wii U or even the 3DS.

Here's a pretty rare occurrence: a game that is not only on the Wii U in the first place but also "only on Wii U." A game being a Wii U exclusive and not a first party title is rarer than catching Bigfoot ordering 12 Big Macs at the McDonald's drive-thru.

Nintendo announced that a bundle featuring the GameCube controller adapter is coming this holiday season. The Super Smash Bros. for Wii U controller bundle contains a Nintendo GameCube controller and adapter for Wii U. It will be available this holiday season for a recommended price of $99.99, the company revealed during its E3 2014 Digital Event.

The Wii U adapter allows four original Nintendo GameCube or WaveBird controllers to be hooked up to the Wii U for use with Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. The adapter connects to the Wii U USB port.

Nintendo's Digital E3 Event opened with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime facing off against Nintendo president Satoru Iwata in a fight to promote Super Smash Bros. on the Wii U. The fight then transitioned into a fight in Super Smash Bros. using Miis of both Nintendo executives, but the tide of battle changes when Satoru uses a Mario action figure that brings Mario into the match for a two-on-one fight against Reggie.

After last night's press conference Sony released further information on the Glacier White PlayStation 4 and pricing on games available on its PlayStation Now service. Sony said that the special Glacier White edition of the 500GB PS4 console that will be bundled with Bungie's Destiny will cost $449. It will also come with a glacier white DualShock 4 controller, a copy of Destiny and a 30-day PlayStation Plus voucher.

Last night at Sony's E3 press conference the company announced that Grand Theft Auto V would be coming to the PS4 in the fall. What the company did not mention (and why on earth would they?) is that Rockstar's latest title in the hit series would also be coming to the Xbox One and - yes, finally - the PC.

"Grand Theft Auto V for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC will take full advantage of the power of new generation systems to deliver the ultimate open-world experience," said the studio in an announcement last night.

Once again the Entertainment Software Association is hinting that it may very well end its relationship with the Los Angeles Convention Center for the Electronic Entertainment Expo if the venue's ongoing construction issues are not resolved.

Andrew Eisen's latest video offers ten far-out predictions about what Nintendo will announce at its E3-releated Nintendo Direct press event today at 9 AM PT. We won't spoil the video for you, but most of these predictions are way over the top and possibly the bi-product of Andrew's sometimes over-active imagination and a lack of sleep. You can watch the video to your left.

Here's a crazy prediction from us. Nintendo will finally announce that a proper sequel to the SNES version of Earthbound will be coming to Wii U and 3DS in November.

Prior to the launch of its two-hour E3 press conference, Sony released a trailer for Killzone: Shadowfall Intercept online. Intercept basically adds four-player coop to the game from Guerilla Games.

Like EA's E3 press conference earlier today, Ubisoft avoided talking about business (it could have bragged about Watch Dog sales or talked about uPlay) and focused on the games it has in the pipeline. It also avoided talking about specific platforms, with the exception of a couple of games.

To celebrate the launch of the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles tomorrow Humble Bundle has teamed up with Twitch and others to present an E3 Digital Ticket. While watching the live stream on Twitch, you can pay want you want to get a bunch of digital goodies.

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson opened the EA E3 press conference by showing off Aliens Isolation - a new shooter set in the Aliens universe (a universe that no one seems to be able to make a decent game in) - and the new Star Wars Battlefront game. The company didn't show off any live demo play throughs during the show, instead opting to offer behind-the-scenes documentary style vignettes and loads of trailers.

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer opened Microsoft's E3 Xbox briefing to talk about nothing but games. Microsoft avoided talking about sales numbers, upcoming Xbox Live features, and entertainment; focusing exclusively on all the games coming out by year's end and 2015 and beyond. The company spent its 90 minutes talking about and showing games through sizzle reels and live action demos. The company also focused on many of its core franchises coming out this year.

Reminder: You can watch the biggest E3 press conferences on Twitch, starting at 9:30 am PST (that's 12:30 pm EST) with Microsoft's big E3 event.

Later today Electronic Arts will host its press conference, followed by Ubisoft, and then way later in the evening Sony will host its event for the show.

The Electronics Entertainment Expo is next week and kicking it off is a round of press conferences where the biggest publishers will try and dazzle you with game announcements and spectacle in an attempt to win your dollars.

Of course, these presentations rarely go off without a hitch.  Everything from technical failures such as Nintendo's Skyward Sword demo from 2011 or EA's Battlefield 4 false start last year to horrible hosts such as "Mr. Caffeine" from Ubisoft's 2011 presser and Jamie Kennedy who MC'd Activision's show in 2007.

The ESA and Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS), have announced the exhibits for the 2014 Into the Pixel Collection at the Electronic Entertainment Expo next week. In its 11th year, the exhibit will feature art inspired by or directly from such games as Assassin's Creed Unity, Destiny, Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved, Dota 2, Guild Wars 2, inFAMOUS Second Son, Killzone Shadow Fall, Sunset Overdrive, The Banner Saga, and more.

Earlier this year, game streaming service Twitch announced that it had inked a three-year deal with the ESA to stream content live from the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Today the service revealed its streaming schedule for next week's show. Twitch will start its coverage on the morning of Monday, June 9 with Microsoft's media briefing at 9:30 am PDT, then EA's press conference at 1:00 pm PDT, followed by a series of reveals and streams showing off new games.