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The Daily Roundup for 05.22.2013

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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all ha…


Nintendo partners with Best Buy so you can play unreleased Wii U games in store during E3 (video)

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There’s nothing more frustrating than watching a product or service get announced, then having to wait an age to try it out. Nintendo hears that, and has announced via Nintendo Direct, that during E3 week, Best Buy will have playable demos of as-y…


Sonic the Hedgehog arrives on Android, headed exclusively to Nintendo on the console side

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USSR and the USA. Batman and Joker. Christoph Waltz and… well, everyone. It’s pretty tough to look at the world’s best-known rivalries and exclude one of history’s finest — that being, of course, Sonic and Mario. The gritty battle between Ninte…


No new EA games in development for Wii U, company reveals

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Earlier this month, EA DICE’s Johan Andersson dropped a major bomb: Frostbite 3 won’t be ported to the Wii U. The news meant that the company’s next-gen franchises were doomed to skip the console: No Battlefield 4, no Star Wars games, no Mass Effe…


Ubisoft working with Kaspersky Lab to make Watch Dogs’ hacking more true to life

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Upcoming third-person action game Watch Dogs is set in a near-future environment modeled on Chicago, a city that’s overseen by computers that can be manipulated. And while the game has some instances of fantastical hacking perpetrated by main char…


Ubisoft working with Kaspersky Lab to make Watch Dogs’ hacking more true to life

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Upcoming third-person action game Watch Dogs is set in a near-future environment modeled on Chicago, a city that’s overseen by computers that can be manipulated. And while the game has some instances of fantastical hacking perpetrated by main char…


Wii Street U update brings Miiverse support with favorites, emotional tags

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Not exactly earth-shattering news in the weeks leading up to E3, but Nintendo Japan announced some nice little additions to its Google-powered Wii Street U. The panoramic mapping service is getting support for the proprietary Miiverse social netwo…


The Daily Roundup for 05.08.2013

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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all ha…


Next-gen EA games will skip Wii U due to performance issues with Frostbite engine

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EA’s Frostbite 3 engine, which underpins many of the company’s next generation titles, looks like it won’t support Nintendo’s Wii U. Johan Andersson, Technical Director of the Frostbite project at EA DICE, says the company tested Frostbite 2 on th…


Nintendo reportedly offering Wii U game conversion software to smartphone app devs

While we knew Nintendo was happy to hook up its newest consoles with smartphones, we thought that would only extend to social networking and shopping. Nope, it looks like the company is planning to go a step further, with a report from Japan Times…