Wii U

Nintendo’s new console combines the classic Wii motion controls experience with HD graphics and a tablet-like touchscreen controller. Better still, Nintendo is committed to making many of the games released for the console available as digital downloads on day one. Sorry, GameStop.

With Miiverse, the Nintendo Wii U is a gamer’s social network

With Miiverse, the Nintendo Wii U is a gamer’s social network

Nintendo took the first swing in the melee that is E3 2012, the biggest video game industry convention in the United States. The company held a live webcast tonight and revealed details about the final iteration of the Wii U’s new controller, the Wii U GamePad, plus a detailed outline of how multiplayer and social features will work on the [...]

Video: Watch the first Assassin’s Creed 3 gameplay trailer

Video: Watch the first Assassin’s Creed 3 gameplay trailer

Game publisher Ubisoft has released the first trailer of Assassin’s Creed 3 featuring actual gameplay footage. The video shows the game’s protagonist, a Native American assassin named Connor, climbing trees and battling redcoats and bears. Like its predecessors, this game tasks you with leading an assassin through complex battles, parkour climbing, and stealth missions centered around blending in with crowds. [...]

New Wii U games will be day-one digital downloads

New Wii U games will be day-one digital downloads

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have offered digital downloads as alternatives to retail store shopping for a while now, but they’ve rarely offered new, full-priced games as downloads the day they’ve come out. Rather, downloadable versions have come weeks or months later. Nintendo will buck that tradition; first-party new Wii U games will be downloadable on their release days, [...]