Wal-Mart Canada appeared to leak dozens of surprise E3 2018 announcements this week, but it’s blamed the whole thing on a “glitch”. Speaking with Motherboard, a spokesperson for the embattled retailer said that all of the software was “speculative” – despite the fact that no one was asking for a RAGE sequel and it appears to be real.
“Wal-Mart experienced a technical glitch that allowed certain items to be posted to our website for a short period of time,” said a perspiring Anika Malik, director of communications for the company. “The items posted were speculative in nature and only game publishers can confirm the announcement of a release.”
Translation: we made a huge cock up and now behemoth video game publishers are very angry with us, so we’re telling you that our error was a “glitch” in the hopes that you’ll buy it. Oh please believe us – there are big business deals on the line here and we may have just lost them all. Where’s Will Smith with one of those memory zappers when you need him?
[source motherboard.vice.com]
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That's one hell of a glitch
Doesn’t this happen every year like amazon France
Sounds like someone was bored as hell at work and listed the upcoming games by accident.
A big ol' whoops.
Love that last paragraph!!!! Yup, someone really messed up at Walmart!!!! Still though, I'm sure there will still be many nice moments in E3! Did they just give a list of the PS4 and XBONE ones, or was nintendo also included in the deal?
@JLPick There was nothing from Nintendo that wasn't already known to be a game, mainly Yoshi, Smash and Metroid Prime 4.
Everything unknown was strictly other systems.
Looks like that will have few surprises on E3 after the leak.
The only thing that makes me sceptical about it being true is there isn't one new IP there. I would have assumed if it was a leak then some unannounced games would be there
Note to retailers: do NOT put the boss' nephew, your new 'intern' on stock listing duty just because 'he's good with computers and stuff'.
@mrobinson91 EXACTLY what I thought. Surely Sony and MS will be announcing new IP at E3? I can't see both pressers going off without at least one new announcement.
Well next time don't tell retailers before you announce! Sounds pretty stupid to me
@Clutch_Nixon @mrobinson91 it's not like they leaked ALL e3 games...only the ones that were announced to the retailers!
Surrre Walmart...I look forward to seeing the real E3 announcements, even if these rumors turn out to be mostly false aside from games we already knew about.
@AFCC ah. I stand corrected.
@Clutch_Nixon I mean...if this was the only new games, it would be the worst E3 in years xD only sequels and some of them sequels to ok games
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