Posts By Pramath

Nintendo Talks About Wii U’s Online

Nintendo Talks About Wii U’s Online

Details on Wii U's online have been a bit sketchy since the system's announcement at this year's E3. Although we have repeatedly been assured that the online on this system will be a step up from th... Read More

Microsoft: Kinect Failed in Japan

Microsoft: Kinect Failed in Japan

Microsoft's Kinect, the motion sensing add on peripheral to its successful Xbox 360 c0nsole, may go down in history as the highest selling video game peripheral of all time, but for Microsoft Japa... Read More

Nintendo Confirms the Wii U is 3D Capable

Nintendo Confirms the Wii U is 3D Capable

In spite of Nintendo's repeated assertions to the contrary, head honcho Satoru Iwata has confirmed to Mercury News that the Wii U, its upcoming console, and successor to the Wii, will in fact be 3D ... Read More

Sony Confirms PSN Pass Program

Sony Confirms PSN Pass Program

This one time online pass thing is really becoming a widespread epidemic. After EA's Online Pass strategy to combat lost revenue from second hand sales, other publishers have also fallen suit. The m... Read More

Nintendo: We Will Not Make Games For the iPhone

Nintendo: We Will Not Make Games For the iPhone

If today's announcement of the impending release of a Pokemon app for the iPhone and Android had you all excited that you'd soon be able to play some more Nintendo games on your smartphones, well ... Read More

Japanese Sales Charts: 3DS Outsells PSP, Tales of the Abyss Tops Software Charts

Japanese Sales Charts: 3DS Outsells PSP, Tales of the Abyss Tops Software Charts

The 3DS has had it rough, and that's no secret. After a record setting launch, it has struggled in all regions, consistently being outsold by the PSP, and sometimes even the DS, everywhere. Thankful... Read More

Patapon 3 Review

Patapon 3 Review

As the PSP nears the end of its excellent lifespan, it's getting some final hurrahs, even as the inflow of new releases is reduced to an absolute trickle. Earlier this year, we got the rather excellen... Read More

Duke Nukem Forever Review

Duke Nukem Forever Review

Interesting fact: back when 3D Realms originally announced Duke Nukem Forever, Nintendo released it's first polygonal 3D Zelda, Ocarina of Time, on a system that was struggling in the market to give i... Read More

Darkspore Review

Darkspore Review

It's really hard to review a game like Darkspore. By all accounts, this is a great game, and certainly one of the more fun titles we've had in a generation when an increasing number of games are dista... Read More

Who Won E3 2011? The Full Review Is Inside…

Who Won E3 2011? The Full Review Is Inside…

E3 this year was a massive disappointment. Microsoft's conference was a ghostly echo of the one they had last year (which, in turn, was uncomfortably similar to Nintendo's 2008 conference), Sony's c... Read More

E3 2011: Halo 4 Starts Off A New Halo Trilogy On Xbox 360

E3 2011: Halo 4 Starts Off A New Halo Trilogy On Xbox 360

  The Kinect stuff sucked, but Halo 4 was incredible. All we got to see was a prerendered trailer, but just the sight off Master Chief in glorious high definition, ready for a new adve... Read More

E3 2011: Dance Central 2 Announced

E3 2011: Dance Central 2 Announced

More Kinect Games. More Kinect Games. MAKE IT STOP! Dance Central 2, the sequel to the only Kinect game worth owning so far, was announced at Microsoft's E3 presser today. The game will feat... Read More

E3 2011: Kinect Sports Season 2 Announced

E3 2011: Kinect Sports Season 2 Announced

Big surprise. Microsoft announced the sequel to Rare's Wii Sports rip off, Kinect Sports, at their E3 presser today. The game looks like a poor (or rich, depending upon how much money you spent... Read More

E3 2011: Kinect Fun Labs Announced

E3 2011: Kinect Fun Labs Announced

Microsoft announced Kinect Fun Labs, Microsoft's own take on the LittleBigPlanet genre, which will feature Kinect apps developed by anybody and everybody. Looks like Microsoft is finally recognizi... Read More

E3 2011: Cyrtek’s Codename Kingdoms Is Revealed As Ryse, A Kinect Controlled Action Title

E3 2011: Cyrtek’s Codename Kingdoms Is Revealed As Ryse, A Kinect Controlled Action Title

Last year's Codename Kingdoms was an enigmatic tease at Microsoft's E3 presser. Well, we finally got to know what it's about- it's an actyion title set in Rome, that is controlled via the Kinect.... Read More

E3 2011: Star Wars Kinect Detailed

E3 2011: Star Wars Kinect Detailed

Featuring lush worlds and sequences from the Star Wars movies as well as the expanded universe, the Kinect Star Wars game was given a full blowout at Microsoft's E3 presser today. The on rails gam... Read More

E3 2011: Minecraft Coming to Xbox 360 With Kinect Support

E3 2011: Minecraft Coming to Xbox 360 With Kinect Support

Minecraft is coming to Xbox 360 with Kinect Support. It is slated for release later this year. Though the announcement was short on details, it was promised that the game would be available excl... Read More

E3 2011: New Fable Game Announced

E3 2011: New Fable Game Announced

Peter Molyneux took the stage to announce a new Fable title for the Xbox 360 today. Titled Fable: The Journey, Molyneux promised the next leap forward for the long running franchise. The game wil... Read More

E3 2011: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Announced

E3 2011: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Announced

The rumor mill was right again, it seems. Following persistent rumors for over a year, Microsoft announced a remastered edition for the classic Halo: Combat Evolved at its E3 presser. With 're... Read More

E3 2011: Update for Xbox Dashboard Announced; Includes Full Kinect Support

E3 2011: Update for Xbox Dashboard Announced; Includes Full Kinect Support

Microsoft announced an update to the Xbox 360 dashboard with full Kinect support at their E3 presser today. Apart from being capable of full voice control, the Xboxc 360 will get many new apps,... Read More