Nintendo recently announced that Wii U sales more than doubled in September as compared to the previous month thanks to a $50 price drop. This combined with the recent release of Wind Waker HD and the 2014 lineup drawing has even a Wii U pessimist like myself thinking that the console is finally on its…
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News Byte: Valve’s Steam Controller
Valve’s Steam Controller In the very recent past, Valve bestowed upon the game world its Steam Machine and revolutionary new controller. That controller has everyone talking, including us! It even has non-PC folks like me curious about what it can do.
News Byte: Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix to be Released Next Year
Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix to be Released Next Year Kingdom Hearts news is coming down the pipeline from Square Enix, which recently announced a new addition to the series arriving in 2014: Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix. What promise does this game hold for Kingdom Hearts fans?
News Byte: GTA V breaks Guinness World Records
Greetings to all you readers, bloggers, and gamers! We here at United We Game are proud to release today the first post in our new audio series, News Byte! The format is pretty simple. Each day we’ll relay and converse about one game-related news story in a 3 to 5 minute audio segment. Think of…
Contributor Recap: 10/7 – 10/11
Yet another week gone by; how is it that the time goes so fast? Ah well, the week may be gone, but we here at UWG have a couple pieces of good news to share. First, we’re that much closer to the releases of Pokemon X/Y and XCOM: Enemy Within. We don’t know about all of you…
A Controller for Your Feet
Controllers have, for the most part, always been for your hands. It’s a necessary situation right? After all, aside from motion controls and the odd pedal accessory for racing games, how could a controller make sense for anything but your hand? Oddly enough, more than you would initially think.
Bot Colony: A Glimpse of the Future?
Player interaction with the characters in a game has not seen many radical steps forward over the years. We’ve had change to be sure, having gone from simple text, to cut-scenes, to rigid voice-acted responses, and finally to a semblance of actual conversation via dialogue systems employed by Mass Effect or Dragon Age. Indeed we…
Smashmuck Champions: PAX Interview
Smashmuck Champions was the first game that I had the pleasure of trying out while at PAX Prime. It’s an online battle arena in the same vein as League of Legends, but rather than being a simple clone of the more popular games in the genre, Smashmuck Champions strives to do things its own way. I’ve…
The Potential Future of Playstation’s Past
Ever since Sony acquired Gaikai from David Perry back in June of 2012, there has been speculation as to what the consumer electronics giant will do with the streaming service. First thought to be a sort of upgrade to the Playstation 3, then assumed to be a cloud media server for the PS4, Sony’s president has…
Anchoring the Vita
Earlier last year, one of my co-workers was part-timing at Best Buy as a gaming ambassador. He had the opportunity to borrow a display unit of the PS Vita and show it off to his friends and family. I guess the hope was to encourage consumers to pick one up on launch day, or just…
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