Nintendo Wii U Hands On: An Entirely Different Way to See Things

It looks like the product of a fevered fanboy wetdream. A 6.2-inch touchscreen, surrounded by dual analog sticks and oodles of buttons. Like the portable hardcore gamers wish Nintendo made. But it’s the most incredible controller ever. I’m completely immersed in my own tiny world with the Wii U controller, staring into the screen, moving…

You Can Play El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron Right Now

UTV Ignition’s gorgeous action game doesn’t come out until July 26, but you can play it right now in the form of a downloadable demo for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It’s like getting an E3 present!

It’s Double Sonic All the Way Across the Street

There is more than one way to skate your way down a busy city street in Sonic Generations: 2D or 3D. Sega just gets a kick out of making trailers with two hedgehogs in them.

Inversion Will Turn Your Mind Upside-Down

A lot of non-gamers I’ve talked to say that one of the reasons they don’t play is because the rapidly moving camera makes them feel sick. After playing Inversion, a third-person cover-based shooter from Timeshift developer Saber Interactive, I think I understand how they feel. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, aliens have invaded earth, defeating…

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Looks As Beautiful As Rugged Adventuring Can Look

A lot of screenshots you see in this business, especially around this time of year, have been, let’s say, “touched up”. Made to look a little prettier than they will be when the game actually ships. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim doesn’t do pretty. And these new screens for the sprawling RPG show why that’s…

Now You Can Download the E3 2011 Legend of Zelda Medley

Want a copy of the stirring Zelda tribute performed earlier today at Nintendo’s E3 2011 presser for your very own? Music masters FireGS and ZREO have remastered the medley and put it online for your downloading pleasure. Rejoice!

Resident Evil: Revelations is a Frightening, Delightful Experience

This is Resident Evil as I remember it: Eerie, tense, long moments of exploration punctuated by brief, startling encounters. Resident Evil: Revelations, due out next year on Nintendoʼs 3DS, is a brand new title with roots firmly planted in the early days of Resident Evil, back when the game was unequivocally about surviving the horrors…

Infamous Real-Life Mercenaries to Star in Blackwater, the Video Game

Blackwater Worldwide, the real-life mercenary team linked to the killing of civilians and noncombatants in Iraq during U.S. operations there, will be the subject of a Kinect-supported video game coming to the Xbox 360 later this year. Published by 505 Games and titled, simply, Blackwater, the game is being produced in consultation with the private…

Paper Mario Is As 2D As The 3DS Could Possibly Be

Paper Mario, you have been a delight on every Nintendo system you have ever appeared on. Don’t go changing that with the 3DS version! Not that there’s any reason to doubt the series, given what’s on show in the above E3 trailer.

Rise of Nightmares Will Tie You Up in a Dirty Basement and Stab You in the Eye

You want a mature Kinect title? Sega’s got your mature Kinect title in Rise of Nightmares, featured in this E3 trailer that looks like one of today’s edgier horror films threw up. When I first saw Microsoft’s Kinect in action, my immediate thought was “Finally I can play a game in which I truly feel…

You Are the Hero In Super Mario Bros. Mii

If this looks familiar, that’s because Super Mario Bros. Mii is basically Super Mario Bros. Wii. Only for the Wii U, and instead of controlling lesser Mushroom Kingdom stars, your Mii can pull on some overalls and get to work. Remember, although Nintendo is releasing media for this and has playable demos, it remains just…

Smile, it’s Animal Crossing 3DS’ E3 Trailer

I swore I was done with Animal Crossing. That too many same-same games and too many wasted days meant I was finished with the franchise. But this just looks so…charming

The Places and Faces of E3 Day One

More walkin’ around shots from our talented photographer, Isaac Viel

Devil May Cry’s E3 Trailer Brings The White Hair

Don’t like the new Dante’s look? You may want to watch this. You know, this still looks nothing like a Devil May Cry game. And as someone who was never really interested in Devil May Cry games before, but likes where this is going, that’s a good thing.

What’s Under the Wii U’s Hood? IBM Spills a Few Chips

While Nintendo normally doesn’t like to talk numbers when touting a new system’s capabilities, the companies providing those capabilities have no such qualms. Like IBM, who today issued a press release boasting some of the Wii U’s hardware specifications, including the fact the microprocessor serving as “the heart” of the console is a custom 45nm…

Mario Kart 3DS Adds Miis, Flying and…Oh yeah, 3D

If you thought for a second that Nintendo wasn’t going to bring Mario Kart to 3DS, than I guess today is your lucky day. For most of us however, the game’s biggest surprise is the addition of flying and undersea racing. Nintendo has also added Mii support and the standard array of 3DS features; Spot…

Animal Crossing 3DS is a Link to the Past

Are you ready for a radical departure from the Animal Crossing formula for the game’s foray on the Nintendo 3DS? That’s just not going to happen, but here’s a guy dressed as Link. Animal Crossing; Animal Crossing never changes. Those were the words famously spoken by actor Ron Pearlman in my head the last time…

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Lets Go Hands-On and Take a Closer Look at the Wii U

Here are a bunch more photos of Nintendo’s new platform taken from every angle. If you’re more interested in the tech specs, you should check those out here

Seven Different Ways to Play the Wii U

Combining the Wii U’s innovative new controller, the console itself, the stylus, and Wii remote and nunchuk controlers, here are seven different ways you’ll be playing with the Wii U come 2012.