This is the Wii U controller. See its buttons. See its circle pads. See how it compares to an iPhone and to a 3DS. Never mind the rough shooting techniques here. We raced to get this to you. Because we love you. The Wii U will be out next year. We’ll have a ton more…
At first, our editor Brian Crecente has trouble with this rhythm-based game for the new Wii U. It’s a little tricky. Maybe he never played Rhythm Heaven. But he gets it, and you’ll “get” the Wii U, if you pay attention. This is one of several prototype demos being shown at this year’s E3 for…
As is tradition, Nintendo is projecting trivia questions—all involving Nintendo games—in Los Angeles’ Nokia Theater, as they get the crowd in their seats. So… as you get in your seats, try these trivia questions.
Xbox Live will allow gamers to save their game saves to the cloud, so they can download them and resume playing their games on other online-connected Xboxes, Microsoft announced today. That feature will match the cloud-save option already offered on the PlayStation 3’s PlayStation Plus service. But what’s brand new are “Beacons”… a way to…
There will be a new Halo trilogy, starting with late 2012’s Halo 4. That was the show-ending big news in a Microsoft E3 showcase that pushed Kinect hard. How much Kinect was there? We had Kinect Star Wars, a game that lets you control a Jedi hero with gesture and voice We had Ryse, a…
We showed you Kinect Star Wars last night. And today we’ve seen it played on stage. A lengthy play-through showed scenes pulled from several eras of Star Wars fiction, predominantly from the Clone Wars and prequel era. A live on-stage demo involved a player swinging their arms to swing a lightsaber, holding their hand out…
Do you like gladiators? Do you want to fight through the fall of Rome? Ryse may be your game. The Kinect-controlled game from the makers of the Crysis first-person games revealed Ryse today at Microsoft’s big Xbox press conference. The trailer looked pre-rendered and was definitely not showing live gameplay. But what it did show…
How did things go so wrong on the Dead Island island? The game’s new E3 trailer explains… just a little bit more.
It’s Sunday, two days before E3 technically starts here at the Los Angeles Convention Center. What you see here are signs of video games…and Rage mutants, climbing everywhere. Check out the whole gallery, photographed Sunday in sun-splashed L.A. Looks like the Saints Row people rented a parking lot… and that Zelda and Catherine are doing…
We don’t know the official name for Nintendo’s next console yet, but consider “Beem” to be an unlikely candidate. Internet sleuths have been piecing together web registration details, and they thought, for a moment, that “Beem” is it. The proof? The same Australian company, Melbourne IT, that hosts the domain nintendobeem.com hosts the official Nintendo…
If I told you which very modern game includes a surprise Descent homage, that’d be a spoiler But if you really want to see what a Descent game would look like on the Xbox 360 (or the PlayStation 3 or PC), then I suggest you watch this short clip. It’s like 1995 came back, but…
There wasn’t going to be a Gears of War 3 beta last month. The huge Xbox 360 shooter was simply going to come out in the spring, no beta to precede it. You’d be able to own the full game by now if everyone had stuck to the original plan. Things changed some time late…
XCOM, The first-person sequel to classic strategy game X-Com, will be released on March 6, 2012, for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, that last platform being newly-confirmed by publisher Take Two. The game’s got a new E3 trailer, of course, but even more revealing are the lengths Take Two appear to be going to…
What’s an action game? It’s Zelda. It’s Uncharted. It’s Kirby, and it’s Tomb Raider It’s a label for some of the coolest console and portable creations that will be at the E3 circus of upcoming video games in Los Angeles next week. Action games are the games we haven’t classified as shooters or sports games…
New comics show up in comics stores (and on many of your favorite portable devices) every Wednesday. But which ones are worth buying? As always, I have some suggestions. Comics You Should Consider Buying (from comics shops) Celluloid I wish I could tell you if this $35 book was good. I don’t know, because I…
I finished Red Faction Armageddon on Monday. I finished it in a better mood than I was in when I started it a few days earlier. This is a game that gets much better as it goes along. More importantly, it’s a game that defied my expectations. Hell, it defied what I could have sworn…
Nintendo sent us a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D a bit early. The game launches later on June 19, but we’ll be able to play it some and tell you about it. No time to play now, though! So just check out the tchotchkes Nintendo sent along (sure to be…
Rockstar and Team Bondi have more cases for L.A. Noire gamers to play soon. One, Reefer Madness, surely involves a wacky weed of some sort. The other involves the explosion you see above (well, you’d see it if not for that darn age-gate). Those cases and a pile of other additions to L.A. Noire—suits, guns,…
The long-in-the-making first-person shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines is still alive and coming out in the spring of 2012, according to a chest-beatingbursting announcement from the movie studio behind Aliens, the publisher of Sonic the Hedgehog and the creators of the award-winning game Borderlands The unlikely trio of 20th Century Fox, Sega and development studio Gearbox…
Almost four years ago today, the people who made Pac-Man tried to make Pac-Man better, by giving the game a techno aesthetic and altering—intensifying—its rules of play. Game developer Milan Nikolic’s Knight Defensenow does that for chess. Nikolic hasn’t made chess better. He’d have to be a genius to do that. But he has twisted…
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