IGN is reporting here using information that they’ve gotten from Game Informer and their own sources that Nintendo is planning to debut a new console, dubbed Project Café at E3. This system is reported to be more powerful then the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and feature a more conventional controller with a 6 inch touch-screen display on it (you can see IGN’s concept design here). Personally it sounds a bit fantastic to me and I for one will have to wait until Nintendo confirms this information one way or another before I pass judgment on it, but for now it’s an interesting concept. I would love to see Nintendo rededicate themselves to the hardcore gamer audience but a new system is only part of the solution. An online network to compare with Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network would go a long way as well. We’ll all have to wait until more information comes out to see what, if anything, Nintendo has planned.
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Omegasim and I take on Call of Duty: Black Ops for the Xbox 360. Do we make it out alive, or does the game swallow us whole?
I’m going to plug one of our network sites here. AlphaSports is our NBA 2K Series My Player-mode blog that follows the misadventures of Rick Daniel, a point guard out of Akron. In NBA 2K10 he went from the Reno Bighorns of the NBADL ultimately to a happy ending with the Orlando Magic. Now in NBA 2K11, he was drafted by the Miami Heat and after a disappointing end to his first season he resigned with them and is trying to take another stab at a championship with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Will they do it? You’ll have to follow the blog to find out.
- We take a look at Fallout: New Vegas, which really should have been done as year.