If the world doesn’t end before the 2012 holiday shopping season rolls around, it sounds like there’s a decent chance we’ll actually see Nintendo’s Wii U on Sunday, Nov. 18. That’s the date plucked by WiiUDaily from an email it …
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‘Xenoblade Chronicles’: Winning Friends, Shooting Hoops and Ducking Robots
There’s a long-awaited Wii roleplaying game out this Friday that you’ll want to start thinking about now, assuming you didn’t import the English-translation version when it hit Europe and Australia last fall. It’s called …
What’s in the Next Xbox? Blu-ray, ‘Always Online’ Requirement Claims Site
It sounds like nonsense because it probably is: an Xbox with a Blu-ray drive? But that’s what VG247’s claiming, that the next Xbox — they’re dubbing it the Xbox 720, which you can bet is precisely what Microsoft won’t call …
What if Sony’s So-Called ‘PlayStation Orbis’ Really Does Kill Used Games?
Here we go again: There’s a new next-PlayStation rumor out, and like most early-days scuttlebutt, it’s full of stuff no one cares about (or ought to, anyway), like the system’s name. “Orbis.” There you go, look it up if you must. …
The 10 Best-Looking HD ‘Retina’ iPad Games
Does that iPad game you’re thinking about downloading support the latest model’s 2048-by-1536 pixel high-definition display? Here’s a list of 10 that do.
Kinect 1.5 Launches in May, Adds ’10-Joint Skeletal Tracking’
Microsoft’s Kinect motion-tracking sensor for Windows and Xbox 360 can today, out of the box, keep track of basic body parts like your arms and legs. It’s not very good at keeping track of rapid motion, and the lag can be …
Can an Energy Drink Really Make You a Better Gamer?
Warning: Part of this story may resemble an advertorial, because when I first bumped into it passing by AllThingsD, that’s what it read like to me. The idea’s that there’s a new energy drink called GungHo (hey, at least it’s not …
‘Assassin’s Creed III’: On Slavery, Native Americans and Death-Dealing Gameplay
Assassin’s Creed sits at or very near the top of my favorites list as enthusiast-grade video games go. (I apologize for calling it “enthusiast,” but I don’t have a better word, and I want to distinguish it from stuff like …
U.K. Retailer GAME Goes into Administration, May Close 600 Stores, Fire Thousands
That circling-the-drain sound you’re hearing is the U.K.’s largest games retailer, GAME, officially going into administration, as the Guardian reports the company could close up to 600 stores — half its U.K. presence — and …