Before letting me watch the Assassin's Creed: Revelations trailer that spoils Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, representatives from Ubisoft made me sit in this chair. It's the Animus from the series—sort of!—and is a fine chair to recline in while watching Assassin's Creed trailers.

One of the big draws of Nintendo's new Wii U console is the fact it can stream games to a controller and also use that controller as a secondary screen. While Wii U won't be out until 2012, though, this iPad game can do it a lot sooner.

For an engorged SNES controller stuffed with SNES guts, a 3.5-inch screen, a rechargeable battery and loaded up with an original F-Zero SNES cartridge, the Supaboy is surprisingly un-weighty.

This is the Wii U console, the part of Nintendo's big new gaming machine that's been getting a lot less attention than its stunning screen-based controller. I got my hands on the console today. Take a video tour with me.

There's not much to say about Nyko's wide-angle lens attachment for the Kinect—which widens and shortens the Kinect sensor's point of view, allowing you (and a friend) to play way closer to the sensor—except that it works.

Mad Catz's official Xbox 360 headsets has one thing nobody else has: They're totally wireless. There are three models, but the two you care about are the Warhead and Devastator. The former's Dolby 7.1, the latter's stereo.

What's better, a laser mouse or a standard optical mouse? That's a question answered by Razer's new 4G Dual Sensor Technology, combining laser and optical sensors to create a mouse capable of tracking at 6400dpi.

Mike got to use Power A's slightly shrinkified controllers back in January—the PS3 and Xbox models are fine, but it's the 20 percent smaller, totally rubberized Wii remote that's a surprise dynamo. And it lasts longer than before, with AA batteries replacing last year's AAA.

Like IBM, hardware company AMD has also issued a release boasting of its support for Nintendo's new Wii U console.

In a wide-ranging interview with Kotaku regarding the new Wii U console, one of Nintendo's chief game designers, Katsuya Eguchi, confirmed that the system's proprietary disc format will hold 25 Gigabytes of data. That squares with our own reporting from before E3 and puts Nintendo in a good place to run games that…

Stephen Totilo takes you on a whirlwind tour of Nintendo's latest play for the living room, the touchscreen-and-motion-control Wii U.

This morning, Nintendo unveiled the video game industry's first new major home console since 2006. Yes, it's been that long! That console is called the Wii U, and here's everything we know about the machine so far.

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.

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.

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.

Are you planning on siding with the Republic or the Empire when Star Wars: The Old Republic goes live? Either way Razer has you covered, with a line of expensive peripherals with interchangeable lights and decorations to show off your particular allegiance.

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.

Here's the tech demo Nintendo used during its E3 2011 press conference to demonstrate the graphical power of the Wii U. The video is a bit low-res, but it gets the point across. I'm impressed.

Nintendo's new controller has been revealed, a touchscreen-based device that works with all-new, high-definition hardware. This is our first official look at Wii U.