Consoles

E3 2011: Fable demo ‘a horrendous mistake’

It’s fair to say that the Fable: The Journey demo was far from a highlight of Microsoft’s E3 2011 press demo. The short snippet of the game demonstrated a sequence where a player was guided through the game world while shooting enemies with their hands. In truth it was more …

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E3 2011: uDraw boss ‘unsurprised’ by Wii U

Martin Good, executive VP of THQ’s kids, family and casual games label, isn’t shaken by Nintendo’s newly announced Wii U. The uDraw series hasn’t been around for a whole year yet, but the capabilities and functions of the Wii U controller could displace THQ’s purpose-built tablet if Nintendo was to …

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‘854×480 resolution for Wii U controller’

The gamepad screen at the heart of the Wii U experience displays at a 854×480 resolution, according to new research and estimates. Entertainment site Golgotron claims the Wii U controller screen displays at the wide-VGA display standard. The factual basis to this claim is debatable. The resolution size was estimated …

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Wii U limited to one controller

With Nintendo’s Wii U still in the early stages of development every aspect is still open to change, but for the time being at least it looks as if each Wii U will only be able to use one new touch-screen controller. "Our basic premise is that you can use …

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E3 2011: Wii U has 25GB disc size

Nintendo’s next home console will read discs as large as 25 gigabytes of data, according to one of the firm’s chief game designers. Nintendo exec Katsuya Eguchi told Kotaku that Wii U’s proprietary disc format could carry enough data to fill a Blu-ray disc. Elsewhere it is being reported that …

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E3 2011: MGS for Wii U inbound?

The makers of Metal Gear Solid have been in with discussions with Nintendo about what they can bring to Wii U. A Kojima Productions exec told Eurogamer that it was looking at the new console’s potential far ahead of its E3 debut and it currently exploring what the device can …

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