Michael Thomsen

Nintendo announces Miiverse, the world’s cuddliest social network.

video In a pre-E3 presentation made through Nintendo Direct, the company announced it would be evolving the Wii’s avatar system into an enhanced social network called Miiverse. The demo showed a player being killed in a zombie game, presumably ZombiU, Ubisoft’s updated redesign of last year’s shoote

Resident Evil 6 rebirths the quick-time event.

video Not every new change is revolutionary. In fact most changes tend to be both predictable and not especially dramatic. The demo of Resident Evil 6 featured in Microsoft’s E3 media briefing showed a number of new ideas in the series, including the ability to fall backward and shoot from a lying d

Microsoft announces deeper tablet and smartphone integration for 360.

Living up to rumors, Microsoft continued its incremental project of turning the Xbox 360 into the center of a person’s daily entertainment habits. Getting the jump on Apple’s plans for expanding its Cloud service and possibly releasing a television, Microsoft announced a series of new entertainment

PAUSE: The history of videogames in 3 minutes.

video As excitement over the newest game announcements building at E3, our friends at Polygon have created a lovely video condensing the history of videogames into 3 ambient minutes. The montage isn’t intended to be a comprehensive list, but it does a wonderful job capturing the series of simple pla