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Posted on Oct 7 2011 - 1:10pm by Robert
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If you aren’t sure what to get that gadget lover in the family (or yourself) for Christmas then you might be tempted by the latest Nintendo 3DS offering. The rather cool looking Ice White Nintendo 3DS will hit the shops of Japan at the beginning of November and is expected to reach UK consumers very shortly. It is all white on the outside and when you open it up the top half is black and the bottom half is white. The device joins colours such as Aqua Blue, Flame Red and Misty Pink in the range and could prove to be a hit with festive...

Nintendo has confirmed that the 3DS Slide Pad Expansion accessory for the Nintendo 3DS will be released in Japan before the year ends, on December 10. The 3DS Slide Pad, which was leaked by Famitsu, a Japanese gaming magazine, last week, features an additional analog stick to the right side of the console. The leak got everyone in the industry speculating about the future of the device and its upcoming titles. The accessory will be compatible with games like Resident Evil: Revelations, Monster Hunter 3G, Ace Combat 3D Cross Rumble, Metal...

iPads can be used for a lot of things, like playing games, watching movies, making documents and reading ebooks. Now iPads can be used to help stroke patients recover. A neuroscientist from Australia discovered that stroke patients get bored easily by doing repetitive motor tasks, but they embrace video games that have motion controls wholeheartedly. And since a big part of recovering from stroke is perfecting repetitive motions, games like Veggie Samurai, Fruit Ninja and games from Wii’s library can provide patients a fun and effective...

Activision has announced that the first person shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will be coming to the Nintendo Wii, alongside its PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC iterations on November 8th. Treyarch, the developers of the ultra successful Call of Duty: Black Ops, will be ones responsible for developing the Wii version of Modern Warfare 3. The news comes from Robert Bowling, the creative strategist at Infinity Ward, who announced the news during a podcast with Activision’s social media manager Dan Amrich. “The Wii has grown...

Players who are holding off buying the new Assassin’s Creed: Revelation in anticipation of playing the game on the Nintendo Wii U next year doesn’t have to wait. Yves Guillemot of Ubisoft revealed that Wii U will be getting a different Assassin’s Creed game. Chronologically, Wii U’s Assassin’s Creed game will be the next game in the series. Here’s what Guillemot said in his interview with Aftonbladet, a Swedish website (translated by Eurogamer.se): “We saw something about a new Assassin’s...

A company called Tomita Technologies sued gaming console maker Nintendo, claiming that it violated its patents concerning the glasses-free 3D screen of the new 3Ds. As reported, Seijiro Tomita, a former employee of Sony who worked for the company for 30 years, said to have applied for a patent in 2003 that relates to glasses-free 3D displays. The patent, that was defined as”stereoscopic image picking up and display system based upon optical axes cross-point information,” have similarities to Nintendo’s new 3DS hand-held...

Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime disclosed in an interview with Forbes that the next-generation Nintendo Wii U console will not launch until “after April 1st.” It was previously reported that the gaming console will be released at a closer date. “This is a device that will launch in 2012, after April 1st, so we will deal with that situation at the appropriate time. What I can tell you is when we launched the original Wii, there was an overlap with Gamecube. When we launched the original DS there was an overlap...

When the Nintendo Wii was released, game developers and fitness companies started to see the potential use of the gaming console for fitness and exercise related games. We have seen the Wii fit boost into popularity and companies have been developing new peripherals for the interactive game console. About two years ago, Big Ben Interactive teased us with its Cyberbike, a stationary bicycle that also acts as a game controller for the Nintendo Wii. Now that the console has reduced its price to about £100, the Cyberbike is finally released...

The Wii U console is officially out in the wild, not only do we have official press shots but now have some real hands on photographs too curtesy of Inside Games, Japan. The snapshots show the parts of the Wii U that Nintendo has failed to show off, and in true blogger form have been taken on a wooden desk (this seems to be the way forward with bloggers these days). The photographs show the console and controller from a variety of angles, predictably there is a small number of input ports to keep things simple and the whole ensemble is...

Nintendo has announced that the Wii 2 will be unveiled at E3 next month, we knew that two weeks ago but didn’t expect a video to emerge outing the device prematurely. The undercover Wii 2, AKA Project Cafe, has been demonstrated to a select few. One of which decided to take a covert video and post immediately post it on YouTube for the whole world to see. At the beginning on the video a slide shows a new controller with a form factor similar to a N64 controller, the difference being it is white and has a large screen embedded in the...