Guide Geek: The many announcements of E3 2015

E3 has me exhausted. I wasn't even in Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, but just watching all the action from afar is pretty tiring.

Things kicked off in an exciting way on Sunday with the Nintendo World Championships followed by Bethesda's game showcase later that night, where we got our first looks at Fallout 4 and the new Doom game that's being developed here in Dallas. But some of the biggest news was held until Monday.

During their press conference that morning, Microsoft announced that the Xbox One will soon be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 games. Before now, none of the hundreds of games developed for Microsoft's last console would work with their new one, which is generally not something that people are a fan of. Now, though, Microsoft has found a way to emulate the 360 with the Xbox One hardware, meaning a lot of your old games are going to start working on the Xbox One soon. Microsoft says that more than 100 games will be backwards compatible starting this holiday season, but more will follow.

This is huge news for anyone who's been waiting to upgrade from their 360 console or those who, like me, just need to free up an HDMI slot on their TV.

Sony followed with their press conference later in the day, and while they currently have no backwards compatibility plans of their own, they broke the Internet in a very different way.

Over the past several years there have been three games that are requested from nostalgic video game fans over and over again: A remake of the classic RPG Final Fantasy VII, a sequel to the cult hit Shenmue and long awaited Sony game The Last Guardian. Sony decided to blow a lot of minds at E3 by announcing all three of them.

Now, the catch is that all three of those games are still a ways off. The Last Guardian was given a nebulous 2016 release date, reports say that the Final Fantasy VII remake will hit in 2017 to coincide with the original game's 20th anniversary and the Shenmue III Kickstarter suggests a release date of December, 2017 if all goes according to plan -- which, let's fact it, Kickstarters rarely do.

Still, it's a lot of big news, and Sony fans have a lot to look forward to for awhile.

If I were to recap all of E3 I would be standing here for hours. I mean, Street Fighter's Ryu was added to Super Smash Bros., EA gave the new Mass Effect game a name, Nintendo showed off a new Star Fox for the Wii U and all sorts of other crazy stuff. So why don't you just head to GuideLive.com/Geek and spend some time catching up, and I'll see you again next week.