Justin has been a gamer since the Intellivision days back in the early 80′s. He started writing about and covering the video game industry in 2008. In his spare time he is also a bit of a gun-nut and Star Wars nerd.
A new picture of the rumored PlayStation 4 controller -- which happens to bear more than a passing resemblance to the pad featured in yesterday's rumored PS4 controller photo -- found its way to the Internet today, giving us a better look at the mystery controller.
If leaked marketing and promotional materials obtained by Kotaku are to be believed, Ubisoft's Watch Dogs will be released later this year across "all home consoles".
According to The NPD Group's January 2013 retail sale report, total U.S. sales for Nintendo's Wii U console are currently tracking 38% lower than Wii sales during the first three months after that console launched in November 2006.
When the dust finally settled after THQ's bankruptcy auction last month the majority of the publisher's assets had managed to find better homes within the video game industry, however, the WWE publishing license was one of the bigger names to be left with a question mark hanging over its head. Conflicting initial reports suggested that both Take-Two Interactive and Electronic Arts had struck a deal for the license, but neither company stepped up to confirm the reports either way. It has now been announced that Take-Two has reached a deal over the WWE license and will publish the future games in the franchise.
Just days ahead of Sony's expected debut of the PlayStation 4 a new report claims to have the final details of the next generation console's controller, and a lone image has popped up that seems to back up all the recent rumors and speculation.
Aside from the longer announcements for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, and Mario Golf: World Tour, Nintendo shot out a ton of rapid fire bits of 3DS and Wii U gaming news in today's "year of Luigi" Nintendo Direct presentation. Below is a full round-up of all of The Big N's announcements, along with an embedded video of the entire presentation.
During the almost entirely 3DS-focused Nintendo Direct presentation this morning the company's president, Satoru Iwata, revealed that Camelot Software Planning is currently developing a new game in the Mario Golf franchise for Nintendo's handheld, titled Mario Golf: World Tour.
During the Nintendo Direct presentation this morning Nintendo's president, Satoru Iwata, announced that the company will release a new installment in the popular Mario & Luigi role-playing-game franchise later this year, titled Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.
During this morning's Nintendo Direct presentation Bill Trinen announced that Animal Crossing: New Leaf will finally be released for the 3DS in North America on June 9th, and across Europe on June 14th.
Electronic Arts' chief financial officer, Blake Jorgensen, told the audience at the recent Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco that his company is not expecting Microsoft and Sony's next generation consoles to be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 and PS3 software. If that turns out to be the case, Jorgensen noted that the result will likely be a slow adoption of the unannounced hardware.