Yesterday, we learned that the video game publisher THQ is sitting on 1.4 million unsold copies of uDraw, a hugely unsuccessful game designed around a tablet peripheral. uDraw was such a disastrous investment—it cost the publisher around $100 Million on production and lost revenue—that it is almost singlehandedly…

Contrary to what the title led me to believe I was not instantly transformed into an artist upon starting up uDraw Studio Instant Artist, the pack-in software for THQ's new uDraw Tablet for the Xbox 360. I did, however, manage to record an entire video without drawing one penis.

Ever since I played the Wii U last month at E3, I've been running through my memories of the surprisingly abundant Wii U-ish experiences I've had with other gaming hardware, some of which I've written about.

uDraw is THQ's...drawing platform. This past May, an HD version was mentioned, and at this year's E3, it's been shown off for the PS3 and the Xbox 360.

Publisher THQ had some good news and bad news to deliver today, starting with the not-so-great results from its last financial year. The publisher lost a cool $136 million USD. But it had some good news for fans of Metro 2033, Homefront and the very successful uDraw gaming tablet that hit the Wii last year.

With the arrival of fall comes the arrival of expensive shopping decisions. You can shell out for games, but what about game hardware? Do you need the Kinect? The Move? One of the new video game guitars? Or even a new console?

Do you look at the Wii Remote and see the potential for an advanced fishing rod or bowling ball? Imagine it as part of a drawing tablet. I tested that set-up this week. It's what Mario Paint Wii could've been.