Pre-orders are nothing new in the realm of video gaming — they’re the requisite hype before the release day-storm.
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Sony opens up PSN to digital download pre-orders
Sony opens up PSN to digital download pre-orders
May 18, 2012 By
Nintendo to pull the plug on 3D TV service in Japan
May 11, 2012 By
If you were still holding out for those 3D-erific videos of cute dogs and sumo wrestlers for your American 3DS via Nintendo’s “Itsu no Ma ni Terebi” service, bad news just got badder.
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Nintendo to pull the plug on 3D TV service in Japan
New York’s Chinatown Fair arcade hits reset, plays a new game
May 7, 2012 By
When Chinatown Fair closed in March of last year, Filmmaker Kurt Vincent went to work documenting the New York arcade’s final days, continuing to return to the location after it shuttered to work on his upcoming film, Arcade .
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New York’s Chinatown Fair arcade hits reset, plays a new game
Nintendo patent application lends a look at Wii U’s core technology, add-ons too
May 4, 2012 By
Little did we know that, just two months after we were trying the Wii U for ourselves, Nintendo was busy patenting nearly everything its unique game console would have to offer. A pair of just-published US Patent Office applications filed last August get into the nuts and bolts of how the controller and the legacy Wii remote will play with the new device. It’s clear that the patent work had started before Nintendo had redesigned the main system — the box at the center of the patents looks like the existing Wii — but it does show the nitty-gritty of things we only saw at last year’s Nintendo E3 keynote , such as the gun attachment or playing golf with a combination of the Wii U controller and the traditional Wiimote.
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Nintendo patent application lends a look at Wii U’s core technology, add-ons too
GameStop to offer Android tablet and smartphone trade-ins, give you another excuse to upgrade
April 29, 2012 By
If you’ve been looking for a reason to replace your aging device with something a tad more contemporary, your local pawnshop GameStop is happy to oblige.
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GameStop to offer Android tablet and smartphone trade-ins, give you another excuse to upgrade
Screen Grabs: Serena’s packing steam, Gossip Girl turns gamer
April 23, 2012 By
Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dot com .
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Valve employee spills the hardware beans: wearable computers, ahoy
April 14, 2012 By
When Michael Abrash started working for Valve, he expected the higher-ups to hand him a pile of work and tell him to hop to it. They didn’t.
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Valve employee spills the hardware beans: wearable computers, ahoy
Epic Mickey 2 controllers invoke the power of the brush, are made for you and me
March 24, 2012 By
Do you like your M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E with a side of eXtreme? So do the developers at Junction Point, which is why a sequel to the mouse’s first Epic is on its way. But the impending release of that title’s not all grown-up Mouseketeers-cum-gamers have to look forward to, as two special WiiMote peripherals are also apparently on deck.
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New York’s Chinatown Fair arcade presses start to continue
March 18, 2012 By
Live in New York? February’s gaming sales a mixed bag: up for the month, down for the year
March 9, 2012 By
At this point, every time NPD releases its numbers, the video game industry collectively holds its breath. The last couple of months have not been kind , as hardware sales continued to drop
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February’s gaming sales a mixed bag: up for the month, down for the year
