Now, this is the story all about how my nephew’s life got flipped-turned upside down, and I’d like to take a minute just sit right there, I’ll tell you how he sold his PS3 and became the prince of a console called Xbox 360.

During the whole PSN fiasco I joked about how my nephew (12 years old.. or is he 13 now? Meh, I never bothered to keep track) who is a die-hard Call of Duty fan and PlayStation 3 owner, would go through terrible withdrawal symptoms from not being able to play CoD online and would probably sell his PS3 for a 360… turns out that’s exactly what he did!

Fresh Prince of Xbox 360?

I’m sure by the time Wii U launches some time in mid-2012 there’ll be a few design changes that were implemented since the big reveal during E3 2011.

However until that happens, it’s up to us to nitpick while we still can. In this entry I’m going to go into some detail on the U Controller’s features, what needs to change on the controller and why. Some of it will be things that are universally agreed upon, other things will by really nitpicky, but whatever.

This is a shop. I can tell by looking at the pixels…

Man, I’ve been as sick as a dog the last week which is why this entry is so late… You better be prepared to do a lot of scrolling cause just like last years entry, this one is going to be about as long as longcat… maybe even longer.

Actually, last year I mainly focused on which of the big three console manufacturers “won” E3. This year I’ve decided to post up two entries, one that will resemble the style of last years and another one focusing on all of the things that were shown off during the event that weren’t mentioned during press conferences for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. I want to give some love to the PC gamer fans out there too.

So, here we go…

Kinect me to your Vita for some Wii U… and more!

So the ongoing “discussion” as to whether Australia needs an R18+ rating continues… and I’m starting to realise I’m growing very bored of this entire thing and am starting to realise how pointless it actually is.

Of course, I’m not saying this in a “woe is me, for the government will never acknowledge that gamers are adults” kind of way… I’ve actually come to the realisation of the obvious. We’re not getting an R18+ rating down here because we really don’t NEED it to begin with… though not for the reasons the people who oppose the rating for video games in this country would have you believe.

No, really! Just hear me out on this one…

I promise, I’ll get back to making non-Nintendo entries after this one, it’s just that I really feel the urge to get this one out there as soon as I can.

Throughout most of its history as a video game company, Nintendo has always had some sort of connection to a western developer creating games under the Nintendo banner. At first this “champion in the west” was British based developer Rareware who most of us have come to know from the games they developed for Nintendo during the 90s. However, Rare’s time has passed and a new champion, this time from Texas, has taken their place… Retro Studios.

Out with the old, in with the new…