At the tail end of a new interview with Edge which dealt primarily with Wii Music (but somehow failed to ask about the game’s lackluster sales), Nintendo’s legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto has admitted that the Wiimote-Nunchuk combo is not the be-all, end-all of gaming controllers. In fact, he hints that Nintendo may be considering new possibilities [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 25, 2008
$150 — That’s what it will cost you to buy the officially licensed, Mad Catz-produced, S-kill and MarkMan-designed, Sanwa-inclusive, Capcom-approved “Street Fighter IV FightStick Tournament Edition” controller you see immediately above, on February 20th, 2009. That is, if any are left, when all you Street Fighter junkies hear the official description (after the jump) and realize [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 30, 2008
The rumors have been swirling about for quite a while now, and while preliminary confirmations had already been spotted by clever investigators over at Joystiq, MTV hosted a joint conference call with Apple Corps, Ltd. to simultaneously confirm and dash our hopes. Officially announcing one of the most impressive “gets” in the music-game licensing war, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 24, 2008
If you’re over the age of twelve, I’m willing to bet that the Nerf Switch Shot EX-3 isn’t exactly on top of your holiday wish list. This might have something to do with the fact that it is made of brightly colored plastic… the fact that it is used to launch harmless foam darts through [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 15, 2008
GameCyte got the band back together for our review of Rock Band 2 from Harmonix and MTV Games. We checked out the new songs, played a couple of battles, and checked out as many new features as we could count, and slowly realized: We're more or less playing an enhanced version of Rock Band 1. But that's all right with us -- We love Rock Band 1.
Continue reading...Friday, September 5, 2008
Nyko takes us beyond the papercraft with a hands-on demonstration of their new Wing controller. We spoke at length with Nyko representatives about the design decisions and motivations behind bringing a new, wireless Classic Controller solution to gamers everywhere at a special retro-themed event.
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Today at the official PlayStation.Blog, Sony product manager Anand Agarwal finally confirmed what GangstaKilla26 at the PS3Forums told us way back in March — Sony has a badass, feature-packed Bluetooth headset ready to ship with SOCOM: Confrontation this October. Just how badass?
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 2, 2008
History has not been kind to the Need for Speed series on Wii. A quick glance at Metacritic can tell you that the first two attempts to build a motion-controlled racer resulted in games that were solidly average at best. So why has Logitech, who builds force feedback wheels for the likes of racing icon Gran Turismo, decided to stake a $100 peripheral entirely on the performance of game No.3? Perhaps because there's more under the hood of EA's new Wii racer than you might expect.
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Last week, we went semi-hands-on with a paper-based preview of the Nyko Wing, a new wireless solution for the Nintendo Wii’s Classic Controller. Today, as promised, Nyko has delivered the full details on their new controller: It’s coming out in October, and it’ll run you $29.99. Also, Nyko has released the paper prototype to the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Hardware announcements and price cuts are big news in this business, but when E3 2008 revealed that both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 were simply getting larger hard drives, some were understandably disappointed. Today, at the Leipzig Games Convention, Sony unveiled considerably more; but once again, you’d be ill-advised to expect more than a hardware [...]
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