For a while there it felt as though the Honest Trailers YouTube series had gone, I dunno, a little soft in the gills.

It used to be so brutal and then it was sort of harmless. Well, for the first time in ages Honest Trailers has bared its teeth, and poor old Star Fox Zero is the target of its ire.

Thank god for Jim Sterling, a game critic whose recent YouTube antics forced YouTube's copyright system to eat itself alive. Here's how he did it.

Video: The official Star Fox anime isn't the only animated short that came out recently. Animator and voice actor Matthew Gafford and his team of enthusiasts spent more than six years establishing their fan project, set in the Star Fox universe, called A Fox in Space.

Even if you can get used to the awkward controls, Star Fox Zero is merely mediocre. It's as disappointing a major Nintendo console release as there's been in some time.

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has just published a statement on the company's Facebook page saying that Star Fox Zero for the Wii U has been delayed. Bummer.

I wasn't sure just how much Nintendo game designer Yugo Hayashi was joking when he recently told me that he thinks he got the gig directing the new Star Fox because of how close he sat to his company's top game designer. Well, the man himself, Shigeru Miyamoto, was right there, so I asked him.

I'm optimistic about many things in gaming, but I'm a confirmed Amiibo sceptic. I fear the day a Zelda dungeon or Smash Bros. character is locked out for those who didn't purchase the right $US13 Amiibo figure. Well, at least I don't need to fret about the new Star Fox's use of Amiibos.

Nintendo kicked off this year's digital E3 event by transforming its most public faces into puppets, and then Star Fox characters. These guys.