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Two Controllers Slows Down Your Wii U Games
While Nintendo is making a big deal about the Wii U supporting two Wii U GamePads, don’t get excited just yet. Via Twitter, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said, “When you use two, the framerate halves to 30 frames per second.” So that means all those 60fps Wii U games Nintendo has been banging on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Oh Dear, the Wii U’s Controller Battery Only Lasts For 3-5 Hours
Here’s some E3 buzzkill for you: it seems the battery in Nintendo’s Wii U control pad only lasts for 3-5 hours. That’s…wow. That’s less than a lot of you would spend during a serious session with a game. This is going to be a problem given the nature of the controller; it’s one thing to…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedAssasin’s Creed on Vita Manages To Make Combat Easier, Yet Harder. It’s Complicated.
I’ve just had a chance to see a hands-off demo of Assassin’s Creed: Liberation, the new Assassin’s Creed game exclusive to Sony’s handheld Vita. I’ve complained in the past that Assassin’s Creed combat is way too easy, and yet this newest iteration in the franchise manages to make combat even easier Though well, it also…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
See Mario’s Creator Act Like a Goofball On Stage at E3
The highlight of today’s E3, for me at least, was seeing Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto take the stage at the company’s press conference and finally take the wraps off Pikmin 3 The reveal itself was welcome, but what I really liked about it was seeing the dude go crazy with it. For many people, his…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedI’m Knee-Deep In Synthetic Bad Guys in Halo 4’s Bold new Multiplayer
When Halo 4 launches on November 6th later this year, it will ship with a full season of a multiplayer mode called Spartan Ops I got to check out a quick chapter of said episodic content today on the E3 showfloor, where the Majestic Spartan team met those red-laced synthetic enemies from the demo that…
By Tina Amini Published June 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
Wow, Final Fantasy XIV, You’ve Changed
Final Fantasy XIV’s launch was so terrible that Square Enix had to pull the game and promise to not bring it back until it was fixed. I don’t know if their gameplay tweaks have had any effect, but I do know the game is at least looking a lot nicer. Stay tuned later tonight for…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedSee This? See This Blend of Sports Skill and Dancing Rhythm? Yeah, Owen’s Gonna Try That on Video
No, NBA Baller Beats, a Kinect rhythm game, is not a joke, but I’m sure as hell going to look like one attempting to play it when I swing by Majesco’s booth later this week at E3. I can’t do a crossover dribble. I can’t even dribble with my left hand. Now, I can dribble…
By Owen Good Published June 5, 2012 -
UncategorizedOh, If Only This Majora’s Mask HD Trailer Had Been Real
Earlier today, pranksters tried to pass this video off as official. Something Nintendo would actually be showing at its E3 press conference. It didn’t, of course, because it’s fake, but just because it’s fake doesn’t mean it’s not terrific
By Luke Plunkett Published June 5, 2012 - Uncategorized
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 - Uncategorized
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 -
UncategorizedThe 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 -
UncategorizedThat 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 -
UncategorizedTrine 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 -
UncategorizedJapan’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 - Uncategorized
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 -
UncategorizedOf 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 -
UncategorizedPortal 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 -
UncategorizedLuigi’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 -
UncategorizedDarksiders 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
