Pre-E3 Thoughts.

E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), the gaming event of the year, is almost upon us, and things are starting to heat up.

The new Legend of Zelda game is going to be detailed there, but there have been a couple of possible leaks. According to posts from 2chan, a popular Japanese board, the game may possibly be out of the development phase. Here are some details.

Game is all but finished. Putting on final touches.
There will be a playable demo at E3.
Time travel does occur and it happens through the use of a new blade. (not the master sword)
Link’s hometown is much bigger than in previous titles.
There will be several “Majora’s Mask” esque sidequests.
Character interaction will be more involving than in any previous title.
The dungeon field dungeon method is changed, and one of the changes confirms a straight dungeon to dungeon portion of the game.
The current name of the girl in the picture is Adelle.
Combat is extremely fluent and innovative. No previous Wii title can give you a good example of it’s unique style.
The game relies heavily on sword combat versus other items.
There will be less items, but they will be used more frequently.
There will be another main weapon added for an alternative combat style.
The game will feature significant portions of flight.

Interesting details. This may serve to be one of the biggest mysteries and biggest games of E3.
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Activision/Blizzard are gearing up for E3. They are prepared to show more content for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and StarCraft II. Although they may save the jucy details for BlizzCon (Blizzard's own convention).

Along with these two major events, hundreds of games will be announced and further detailed. Sonic Colors, for example, was just announced late May, and Sega will surely give more details.

E3 is shaping up to be an interesting and worthwhile event to watch.