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  Razer’s Artemis is an Elaborately Sexy Way to Play Mechwarrior Online

  My very first E3 2012 appointment this morning was with peripheral company Razer. At the forefront of their booth beneath a glass case sat this thing. My first question for the team: “What the hell is that thing?” The Razer Artemis is a concept device aimed at giving players of Piranha Games’ Mechwarrior Online a…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 5, 2012
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  See How Portal 2’s New PS3 DLC Actually Works

  Portal 2 on the PS3 is getting Move support and some “new” levels. It’s also playable at Sony’s E3 booth, so we popped on over to take a look, see how the Move actually worked with the game.

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012
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  Wizardry Online Doesn’t Look Like any Wizardry I Know

  One of the first PC games I ever bought with my own money was Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant. These screens from Sony Online Entertainment and Gamepot’s Wizardry Online show off a game that’s completely dissimilar to that one. For me, Wizardry will always be walking turn-based corridors in a first-person perspective. Can this…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 5, 2012
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  The Rubbery, Goofy Gorn Will Be the Star Trek Game’s Main Bad Guys

  In an interesting choice for the upcoming co-op Kirk/Spock Star Trek game, the goofy Gorn will take the role of the primary villains. Probably best known for the legendarily bad fight scene between my namesake and a Gorn, hopefully the ones in the game will be more fearsome. The press materials from Namco Bandai are…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 5, 2012
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  That Very Strange, Very Japanese Pokémon Game is Still Coming Over

  Just in case you thought it was a bad (or good!) dream, here’s a trailer to remind you that, yes, Pokémon Conquest – otherwise known as Pokémon + Nobunaga’s Ambition – is inexplicably seeing a Western release

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012
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  Trine 2: Director’s Cut Will Swing, Leap, and Slice Across Wii U

  Puzzling platformer Trine 2 is bringing its trio of heroes to Wii U with a Director’s Cut of the game. Indie title Trine 2, like its predecessor Trine was well-received when it debuted on Xbox Live, PSN, and PC. The game has the player switch on the fly among three characters—a knight, a thief, and…

  By Kate Cox Published June 5, 2012
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  Japan’s Wonderful Animal Fighting Game is Still Coming to the West. YES.

  Tokyo Jungle, Sony Japan’s game about post-apocalyptic fighting animals in a devastated Tokyo metropolis, may seem like the most Japanese thing ever. And it is. That’s not stopping the game from coming to Western PS3 consoles, though. While the game was originally revealed for European PS3s all the way back in 2010, the resulting silence…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012
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  Mad Catz Collects the Whole Set With Tritton Headsets for the Wii U, Vita, and 3DS

  Accessory maker Mad Catz officially supports every major gaming platform with the announcement of the Tritton Kunai line of headsets, delivering quality personal stereo sound to the PlayStation 3, Vita, 3DS and Nintendo Wii U. Can you guess which one is which? If you guessed the black Kunai was for the PlayStation Vita and the…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 5, 2012
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  Of Course There’s a Rabbids Game for the Wii U

  It wouldn’t be a Wii launch without a Rabbids game. And so here we have the trailer for Rabbids Land. Has the charm worn off these once-quirky Ubisoft mascots? I’d say the charm worn off long ago. Sorry, little guys.

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012
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  Portal Picks Up a PlayStation Move Controller, Returns to the PS3 With New Levels

  Developers Sixense have announced that a bunch of new Portal content is coming to the PlayStation 3. It’s called Portal 2 In Motion, and is DLC for the existing game that takes full advantage of Sony’s PlayStation Move peripheral. Crafted as DLC for the core game, P2IM was developed by Sixense, and brings 20 new…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012
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  Luigi’s Ghost Mansion Is Kind Of Like Pac-Man In Nintendo Land

  Ghosts? Check. Four color-coded characters? Check. Chasing each other around a dark, hallway-ridden setting? Check. Watch Stephen play the ghost in Luigi’s Ghost Mansion in Nintendo Land, and get demolished by the Nintendo reps playing the ghost hunters in this video.

  By Nick Vannucci Published June 5, 2012
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  Darksiders II Will Have You Kill Everything on Wii U

  THQ is having a rough go of things right now, but their kill-fest Darksiders II is right on track. Really, in a way we play Death in a huge number of games, whether or not that’s the character’s real name. It’s almost refreshing to take on the role of the Grim Reaper himself. Darksiders II…

  By Kate Cox Published June 5, 2012
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  Not Even The Elder Scrolls Online’s Cinematic Trailer is Helping

  It’s a sad state of affairs when you’re not even feeling a game’s cinematic trailer, but then, that’s about par for the course with me and The Elder Scrolls Online. The game itself just doesn’t look, or sound like an Elder Scrolls title. And neither does this trailer. If you’d told me that was Lord…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012
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  Nintendo Didn’t Show This Wario Game, But Maybe it Should Have

  The 3DS Excepted, new Nintendo hadware launches over the last decade or so have almost been defined by the Wario games released at or near their launch. Combining quirky mechanics with an almost requirement to play them socially, they do as good a job of any game of making the most of a system’s unique…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012
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  This New Wii U Game is About Tanks! Tanks! Tanks!

  Pardon the excitement there, it actually wasn’t excitement. Namco Bandai’s debut Wii U game is actually called Tank! Tank! Tank! It looks like the union of a 90s arcade game, Facebook titles and my worst nightmares about giant mechanical spiders. Which now I see them together doesn’t look like such a bad thing.

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012
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  Skulls of the Shogun‘s Undead Samurai Strategy Battles Will Be a Freakin’ Blast

  Giant AAA games tend to dominate the discourse during E3 week. But sometimes it’s only the indie-developed titles that give you the buzz you’re looking for. Say you’re a fan of great animation, Wu-Tang style hip-hop-inflected feudal Japanese soundtracks and turn-based strategy. Nothing shown at Microsoft’s de-press event scratched your itch. But 17-Bit’s Skulls of…

  By Evan Narcisse Published June 5, 2012
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  The British Zombie Game Shows What the Wii U’s Controller Screen Can do

  Ubisoft’s ZombiU had one of the more interesting trailers from yesterday, but, um, all we saw was cinematic stuff. Nothing from the actual game. This? This is nothing but the actual game. OK, Nintendo (and Ubisoft), you know what, you want to sell people on just what that second screen can do, this is helping.

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012
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  Dead Island Returns With Sequel to Hoodoo Your Voodoo

  Dead Island, the zombie survival action game from 2011 that some hated and some couldn’t get enough of, returns with a sequel, Dead Island Riptide. Techland’s game will be for “consoles” and PC, and will be…well, that’s all we’ve got.

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012
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  Pikmin 3’s E3 Trailer is a Sight for Sore Eyes

  Ah, Pikmin. It’s been too long, my little friends. Too long. See the third game in the series’ reveal on the Wii from earlier today here

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012
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  Get a Good Look at the New Black Wii U

  The Wii U doesn’t just come in white. It now comes in black too! Get a good look at it here.

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012