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Terrifying TriMount Connects All Your Game Console Sensors, Might Just Kill You
For anyone who owns all three of this generation’s gaming consoles, it can be a bitch setting up their respective sensor peripherals. Not anymore, as the dreamGEAR TriMount combines all three. Only it looks like a very angry Wall-E. This behemoth rigs the Xbox 360 Kinect, Playstation Eye, and Wii Sensor Bar together to form…
By Kwame Opam Published June 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Talk Amongst Yourselves
It’s been a busy week for games. We’ve seen a deluge of information from E3 and the launch of some stellar new releases (I’m looking at you, inFamous 2). So get talking—you’ve got plenty to talk about. On another note, things are looking a bit samey around here. Why? Because nobody wants to make a…
By Drew Cohen Published June 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Who Knew the New Final Fantasy Trailer Was This Sexy?
Not me! One Japanese blog did, pointing how just how erotic Serah Farron is in the trailer Final Fantasy XIII-2. The result is a catalogue of cleavage and panty glimpses. The eroticism isn’t heavy handed or gratuitous, but it’s there. チラシの裏でゲーム鈍報:『ファイナルファンタジー13-2』セラがさらにエロくなって登場！パンチラもあり！ [チラシの裏でゲーム鈍報]
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Let’s Look at Resident Evil: Revelations Screens. Together!
You’ve read Kotaku‘s Resident Evil: Revelations impressions (“frightening, delightful”). Now look at these screenshots. Hopefully you’ll find them frightening, and maybe even…delightful? Resident Evil: Revelations is slated for the Nintendo 3DS sometime next year.
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
This Vita Game Will Have You Walking On the Walls
Team Siren, a division of Sony Japan’s internal studio, is working on a Vita game called Gravity. You may not have heard about it earlier in the week amidst all the other big Sony news, and that’s a damn shame. Why? Because it looks fantastic, that’s why. With a cel-shaded visual style and motion controls,…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
“Human Tetris” Squeezed Out for Kinect
Game show Hole in the Wall, a Western take on a “human Tetris” game, is coming to Kinect. The game will be released on Xbox Live Arcade sometime this year. It will have single player or multiplayer modes (up to four players). There are unlockables like helmets and silver spandex. Hole in the Wall started…
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UncategorizedRhythm Heaven Looks as Good On Wii as it Did On DS
Brilliant DS music game Rhythm Heaven is coming to the Wii, and you can see how toe-tappingly distracting it’s going to be in this E3 trailer for the title. Looks so simple, but man, it’s going to get its hooks in you.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Cold Water Thrown on Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS
At Nintendo’s E3 press event, Nintendo honco Satoru Iwata revealed that Smash Bros. was heading to the Wii U and the 3DS. There are no screenshots of the games. Nothing. That’s because work on neither title has begun. According to Smash Bros. designer Masahiro Sakurai, “Honestly, at this point, we shouldn’t be announcing these games…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Home Consoles *Finally* Getting a Tekken Game
Tekken: Wii Successor, a temporary title, is the first Tekken title to come to a Nintendo home console. Tekken is traditionally a PlayStation series, but has also come to the Xbox 360. It’s also the first Tekken with face painting
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Gran Turismo 5 Welcomes Back the PSN With an Update
Gran Turismo 5 was just seriously updated, v1.10 of the racing game bringing not just tweaks and fixes, but some new content as well. Alongside AI improvements and campaign saving changes, GT5 v1.10 introduces online prizes for multiplayer racing, new campaign avatar wardrobe options and, best of all, a streamlined way to buy parts, so…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Talks Wii U Pricing
Wii U is the Nintendo Wii successor. That doesn’t mean the upcoming HD console is going to pick up where Wii pricing leaves off. “I don’t think we can charge the same price as we currently do for the Wii,” Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told Japan’s Nikkei Newspaper. The Wii is currently priced at under…
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UncategorizedThese Aren’t Wii U Games. They’re “Wii U” Games.
Darksiders II. Tekken: Wii SuccessorAssassin’s Creed. Dirt. Ghost Recon: Online. Aliens: Colonial Marines. These are some of the hardcore games coming to Wii U—which Nintendo showed off in its E3 press event. Jump to about two minutes in to see the “Wii U” games in action. Why the quotation marks? Because as Nintendo honcho Reggie…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
What Do the Wii U and Karaoke Have in Common?
Nintendo’s new home console Wii U has a controller with a large touch screen. In the gaming world, it’s unusual—unique, even. But not in Japanese karaoke. As Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto explains, the idea was to see content without turning on the television; thus, if someone is watching television, you can enjoy Wii U games…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011 -
UncategorizedThis Street Fighter X Tekken Trailer Packs an Iron Fist
Who do you expect to see in a Street Fighter X Tekken trailer? Probably Street Fighter and Tekken players! Here, the likes of Chun Li, Julia, Cammy, Sagat, Bob, Hwoarang, and more put in appearances.
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
E3 Day One Recap: the Best, the Worst and Everything in Between
The first proper day of the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo was dominated by one thing: a new Wii console with a silly name. The unveiling of the Wii U was the first new home console we’d seen since 2006, so people were excited. If you want to see what the fuss was about (or just…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2011 - Uncategorized
There’s Another Ace Combat Making a Fly-by
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360. But it’s not alone. There’s another Ace Combat game. Under the working title Ace Combat 3D, the game features touch screen targeting. Its release date is forthcoming.
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011
