Gaming
Nintendo 3DS Touchscreen Tech Chosen For DS Compatibility
The 3DS, despite being a higher-end piece of hardware than the DS — and, yes, bearing a much higher-end price — still bears the same resistive touchscreen technology as its seven-year-old forebear. Why would Nintendo opt for older touchscreen technology, eliminating the possibility of multitouch and forcing the use of a stylus? 3DS hardware producer [...]
Kinect Sports: Season 2 preview
Microsoft announced the inevitable sequel to Kinect Sports during its press event at E3 this year. Kinect Sports: Season 2 features a slate of new sports, including tennis, darts, skiing and, American football and golf. I was able to try out the latter two games. One of the two didn’t seem to have much substance, [...]
Nintendo’s ‘Goal’ For Mario Kart 3D Can Play 8 Player Online
Mario Kart 3D has more improvements in store than just hanggliders bolted to the backs of all the cars. It currently features eight-player local wireless racing, and, if everything goes as planned, it’ll feature eight-player online as well.
Xbox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel Review
The Xbox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel, on the other hand, is rather more manageable — and affordable, with a $59.99 price. It’s a simple, lightweight thing, with an over-sized trigger on the back of each grip. These have very low resistance, so they tend to clap against the back when you mash the throttle, but [...]
Rocksmith Also Available In $200 Epiphone Guitar Bundle
Rocksmith allows you to use any guitar as a music game controller, and for interactive music lessons. That’s so awesome if you have an electric guitar! But what if you don’t have a guitar? What then? What do you do? How does that work?
THQ uDraw GameTablet Goes HD
Nintendo’s Wii U controller is a gaming display, video conference device, and yes, a stylus-toting tablet, but no such tool has been announced for those other consoles, so PS3 and Xbox 360 owners who want to get their sketch on will have to turn to THQ’s new uDraw GameTablet instead. Tablets for both gaming systems [...]
Hyperkin SupaBoy Portable SNES Console Hands-On
Sure, all the morning’s news may have been surrounding a vowel-augmented console from Nintendo, the Wii U, but a certain other Nintendo console that has fewer vowels is also seeing some well-deserved love here at E3 2011. It’s the classic SNES, and its been reborn as the SupaBoy, courtesy of Hyperkin. It’s a handheld version [...]
E3 2011: Taking Battlefield 3 Online
DICE keeps talking about jets, boats, helicopters and the huge potential for stage destruction with its Frostbite 2 technology in Battlefield 3, but in its first reveal of the game’s multiplayer mode, these elements are left out. Instead, on display at E3 2011 was an online conflict set in Paris, taking place across a series [...]
Nintendo DS Lite Price Drops to $99
REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The portable Nintendo DS™ Lite system is getting a new suggested retail price. Effective June 5, the system will be available at a suggested retail price of just $99.99 in the United States. The Nintendo DS family has become the best-selling video game system in history. More than 48.9 million systems in [...]
Nintendo WiiWare, DSiWare, and Virtual Console Downloads for Week of May 30
This week’s new downloadable games for Nintendo systems include two different ways to get behind the wheel – one futuristic, the other retro. InFAST – Racing League for the WiiWare™ service, players can fast-forward 100 years into the future to experience antigravity racing thrills. In Valet Parking 1989™ for the Nintendo DSiWare™ service, they can [...]