Okay, to be clear, Nintendo didn’t announce a ship date for the dual-screened 3DS handheld. They did mention when they’re going to be announcing the golden date though. According to this Bloomberg Japan report, they’ll be announcing a release date on September 29. Nothing new after that, but we could still at least expect the 3DS to arrive by the holidays.
In case you were waiting for Microsoft to come out with something more unique than the slim new Xbox 360, it looks like you won’t have to wait that long. They’re coming out with a new Halo: Reach-themed limited edition kit that comes with enough bells and whistles to make it stand out from the crowd of regular Xboxes. Not that we’d really take a gaming console to a place where we can lose it in a crowd of consoles, but we’re pretty sure some of you look—and pay a little bit more—for this kind of uniqueness. To the tune of $400, or $100 more over the vanilla Xbox 360 S.
If you thought batting around the Wii was fun, then you’re probably pretty hyped up about Microsoft’s Kinect that’ll let you use more than your arm to move around a game world. So here’s the important part (in case you missed the title up there): The Kinect will officially start shipping on November 4th in North America. For everyone else on the fence, you might want to catch the Kinect Experience mobile demo tour they’re going to be holding this summer, where they’ll let you fool around with “Kinect Sports,” “Kinectimals,” “Kinect Joy Ride,” “Kinect Adventures” and MTV Games’ and Harmonix’s “Dance Central” in case you want to try it out first.
Check the demo tour schedule, along with a couple of old videos of a Wii-playing dog after the break, just so we can all remember how far we’ve gone.
Stretch those thumbs and dust off those old NES, Super NES and SEGA Genesis catridges: this console will let you load ‘em up again. Hyperkin just released the RetroN 3 gaming system, a retro all-in-one console that’ll let you plug in your old Nintendo and SEGA game cartridges and original controllers.
Japan gets first crack on an updated version of, well, the updated of the PS3. For the first time in its history, the slim PS3 will come in a different color other than black after Sony announced the white 160GB version. It’ll be bundled with a matching white Dual Shock controller, but other than the cosmetic changes, it’s really no different than the black version in terms of features. Looks pretty cool though; maybe it’s because white devices are apparently so difficult to get these days. Or maybe it’s because we’ve been staring at our tired old black PS3 for years.
