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  • Introducing Project Shield, Nvidia’s Surprise Entry Into The Handheld Market

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    Nvidia surprised a lot of people at their press conference during CES 2013 by announcing their own handheld system, Project Shield. The Android device has a 5-inch 720p retinal touch display and houses Nvidia’s new Tegra chip which they showed off by giving a demonstration of the handheld using the Unreal 4 engine.

    Project Shield can run in 4K through an HDMI port on the system for those 0.5% percent of TV owners that have a 4K television. You should be able to get 5-10 hours of gameplay or 24 hours of video playback. No price or release date was given.

    Most things like this tend to fall by the wayside quickly but a handheld that is running Unreal Engine 4 and is open to developers should excite some gamers.


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  • Iwata Comments On Wii U Sales

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    Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, recently gave his impressions on the Wii U’s early sales figures.

    “At the end of the Christmas season, it wasn’t as though stores in the U.S. had no Wii U left in stock, as it was when Wii was first sold in that popular boom. But sales are not bad, and I feel it’s selling steadily.”

    At least he is being honest about comparing the system to the meteoric start of the Wii back in 2006. Because it was near impossible to find a Wii until well into the new year whereas I just saw Wii U Deluxe Sets out in the wild this past weekend. Iwata goes on to explain that the sales may also be because of the company introducing two console sets.

    “It was the first time Nintendo released two models of the game console at the same time … and I believe there was a challenge with balancing this. Specifically, inventory levels for the premium, deluxe package was unbalanced as many people wanted that version and couldn’t find it.”

    Look, I think Nintendo is realistic about how the Wii U is going to sell. The original Wii was one of those concepts that hit at the exact right time with its motion controller and has gone on to sell over 100 million units. The Wii U is going to be a much harder sell but can keep up with the next generation given that Nintendo announces some killer apps that will be definite system sellers (i.e. Zelda or new 3D Mario).

  • IGN, Kotaku, Others Hand Out Their Game Of The Year Awards For 2012

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    While our own “Best of 2012” will be out in a little while I thought it would be good to share the games that were honored as games of the year by other sites. There was not a whole of of differing opinions between most of the major video games sites. Take a look below to see which games were 2012’s best and be sure and keep an eye out when we announce our “best of” awards.

    IGN– Journey
    Joystiq– Journey
    Kotaku– [amazon_link id=”B006WQR3V0″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]XCOM: Enemy Unknown[/amazon_link]
    Rev3Games– Journey
    Game Trailers– XCOM: Enemy Unknown

    With The Walking Dead winning GOTY at the VGA’s, this year was really a great year for smaller games. XCOM may surprise some people but it is good to see the turn based RTS get back into the premier game talk and on consoles no less.

  • Want A Reason To Pick Up A Pre-Owned Wii U? Here You Go.

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    File this under rumor for right now but a poster over at NeoGAF has found what might be a slight (not really) oversight by Nintendo. He purchased a pre-owned [amazon_link id=”B009AGXH64″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Wii U[/amazon_link] from a local retailer and found a pleasant surprise. He was able to re-download all of the digital games that the previous user had purchased digitally on the Nintendo e-Shop.

    The oversight is that Nintendo Network ID’s are connected to their specific Wii U console and even after the previous user had deleted his account information, the NeoGAF user, DSN2K, was still able to download the games after he created a new account on the system. So the games seem to be linked to the system, not just to the Nintendo Network ID. So if you are out looking for a [amazon_link id=”B0050SVHZO” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Wii U[/amazon_link] you might want to try getting a pre-owned system and you may end up getting some free games in the process.

  • Bioshock: Ultimate Rapture Pack Announced

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    To get you ready for the March 26th release of [amazon_link id=”B003O6E6NE” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Bioshock Infinite[/amazon_link], 2K Games are releasing the Bioshock: Ultimate Rapture Pack which will bundle the first two games (one awesome, the other meh) as well as all the DLC that was released for both games. You will also receive a Bioshock Infinite sticker pack and a digital collection of concept art and character models that did not make it into the game.

    [amazon_link id=”B009WI7V9E” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Bioshock: Ultimate Rapture Pack[/amazon_link] releases on January 26th for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 and retail for $29.99

     

  • MLB 13 The Show Asks For Your Cover Vote

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    Baseball season will be here before you know it and to the delight of PS3 owners (and despise of 360 owners) [amazon_link id=”B00A750QIE” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]MLB 13 The Show[/amazon_link] is back. And like our report yesterday about NCAA 14, MLB is looking for fans to decide who the cover athlete will be.

    Voting will begin on January 7th on MLB.com with seven players in the running including Andrew McCutchen and Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera.

    MLB 13 The Show releases on March 5, 2013.

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  • Sky-Hook Replica From Bioshock Infinite Is So Real, You Can Pre-Order It

     

     

     

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    Why?

    Just when I think I have a grasp on my addiction for buying props and collector’s editions of games, NECA, the bane of my wallet, comes along with this fully functioning Sky-Hook from [amazon_link id=”B003O6E6NE” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Bioshock Infinite[/amazon_link] that I need just as much as the Lancer sitting in my room yet will most likely be displayed next to it.

    The 11″ tall and 22″ long replica is available for pre-order now over at Gamestop.com and will run you $79.99. It will be released on February 26, 2013. Check out the video below to see the Sky-Hook in action.

    Bioshock Infinite releases on March 26, 2013.

  • NCAA ’14 Cover Vote Has A Few Surprises

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    So let’s get beyond the fact that NCAA Football 13 was a bit frustrating in its overcompensation for NCAA 12’s problems with blocking, punt coverage and defenders blind swatting balls. Instead of showing us how they will be trying to improve NCAA 14, EA wants you to go vote for which school will represent the game on the cover.

    Okay EA, I will play along…for now.

    Voting is done through the game’s Facebook page by just liking the page then voting for your favorite school. You can continue to vote on all the schools until halftime of Monday’s BCS National Championship game and then the top 32 teams will move on to the next round of voting.

    Some of the teams in the 32 are a little hard to believe they have a shot to win much less be in the next round of votes. For example, Kentucky is sitting at 14th. You know, that great Kentucky football program that has has such classic games as………and that magical championship run in…….. Army is sitting at 32nd and Penn State is in 10th. Jokes are too easy to come by with that so let’s just all agree that they should not be anywhere near a video game cover for a while and the fact that USC fans are too lazy or don’t care about their program enough to vote enough for this tells me that Lane Kiffin’s job may not be very secure.

     

     

  • Jurassic Life: A Jurassic Park Half-Life 2 Mod That Is A Wonder To Behold

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    A team of programmers have spent over six years developing this [amazon_link id=”B004KKXMSI” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Jurassic Park[/amazon_link] mod for Half-Life 2 called Jurassic Life. Now six years is a long time to be working on the game but when you take into account how small the group developing the mod is then it is truly amazing how this game is coming along.

    They have just released a new video on their website showing off some of the locales and dinosaurs that you will be coming across.The video is also accompanied by John Williams’ iconic score which makes this mod even greater. And let’s be honest, we haven’t had a good Jurassic Park game since the SNES version (crappy Mode 7 and all) so let me just give encouragement to the developers and say we JP fans can not wait to play this when it is done.

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  • Aliens: Colonial Marines Story Trailer

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    Gearbox Software has released another video for [amazon_link id=”B005THAX5Q” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Aliens: Colonial Marines[/amazon_link]. This one focuses on the actual story of the game which has this set of marines arriving to LV-426 17 weeks after the distress signal was sent out in the 1986 movie. We even get greeted at the beginning by Cpl. Hicks (bandaged and all) warning that all members of his squad are K.I.A.

    Check out the story trailer below. Aliens: Colonial Marines releases on February 12, 2013.