E3 2012: Misc.

Portal 2 gets Move support and level pack with new DLC

Down the right-hand side of Sony's E3 booth were waves of wrist-flapping and bicep-jerking while E3 attendees tested Portal 2's motion controls.

Space Channel 5 developer Tak Hirai uses his new studio to mix music and real-time strategy.

Game developer Tak Hirai is no stranger to mixing videogames and music. Once known primarily for his work on Shenmue, Hirai went on to help create such beat-heavy classics as Space Channel 5 and Meteos. Now Hirai runs his own studio, Neilo, and is preparing to release its first Vita game, that difficult-to-describe Orgarhythm.

Luckily, Sony used its E3 keynote to announce the Wonderbook, an augmented reality application for the PS Move that makes those boring squiggles into a toy begging to be played with.

Sure, you know you should be reading. All your friends keep saying how inspired they were by Eat, Pray, Love or Tuesdays With Morrie or The Bible, but to you, it all seems to be just staring at a bunch of squiggles on a page! Is that really the best way to spend this precious gift of life? We submit it is not.

Saints Row the Third sold more than four million copies when it was released last fall to mostly positive reviews. But Jason Rubin, the recently appointed president of THQ, says he expects more from the developers who made it and the company that released it.More from Volition and THQ not because Saints Row the Third didn't sell, or didn't garner positive reviews, but more because he knows both can do better.

Saints Row the Third sold more than four million copies when it was released last fall to mostly positive reviews. But Jason Rubin, the recently appointed president of THQ, says he expects more from the developers who made it and the company that released it.

A new bit of Jane Austen fiction hits e-readers later this year thanks to the BBC and their growing interest in video games.

A new bit of Jane Austen fiction hits e-readers later this year thanks to the BBC and its growing interest in video games.

Minority's PSN adventure/puzzle game shows off puzzle solving at E3.

If you've been paying attention, you know there's a personal backstory behind Papo & Yo that's far more on the nose than in most games. If you haven't been paying attention, read our feature and catch up. It's worth it.

Happy Wars is so lighthearted and simple that anyone should be able to jump in and give the game a go, but we're not sure who's going to stick around.

Happy Wars, the upcoming action arena battler from ToyLogic, faces problems a number of Xbox Live Arcade titles have faced over the last few years.

IndieCade feature A Mother's Inferno follows a mother on her horrific journey to find her son.

The game begins on a moving train, but this train is anything but ordinary. A ride for a mother and son takes a terrifying turn when a demonic entity absconds with the child. The mother, armed with only a shard of broken glass, must pass through the train cars, which are often filled with more otherworldly things than seats. She must decapitate corpses, kill fierce creatures, and do physical harm to her own person if she ever wants to see her son again.

We get a brief glimpse of where the game goes after its opening white room.

If you read Chris Plante's preview of The Unfinished Swan last month, you may recall that the game begins in a pure white room, and players find their way around by throwing ink blobs at the walls so they can see where they're going.

Australian aborigine myth meets the Kinect in IndieCade featured Songlines.

Songlines, a Kinect game featured at this year's E3 IndieCade, weaves a colorful story of world creation. Players take on the role of a rainbow-riding deity from indigenous Australian creation myth to sculpt a habitable world using body gestures.

Imagine: You've just entered the E3 show floor and you're instantly awash in stimulation. From every corner of the cavernous West Hall, bass pounds and strobes flash. Finally you make it to the relative calm of the PlayStation booth only to find that your first appointment is the absurdly colorful, hallucinatory madness of PSN Dyad.

Imagine: You've just entered the E3 show floor and you're instantly awash in lights and sound. From every corner of the cavernous West Hall, bass pounds and strobes flash. Finally you make it from the carnival of stimulation to the relative calm of the PlayStation booth only to find that your first appointment is the absurdly colorful, hallucinatory madness of PSN exclusive trip-racer Dyad.

Team17's Kevin Carthew speaks to Polygon about Worm Revolutions, the latest in the Worms series shown at E3 2012.

Kevin Carthew has worked on the Worms series for 14 years. During this time 19 Worms games have spawned their wriggly selves from the ground to make the series an iconic turn-based strategy staple on PC, console, and mobile devices everywhere. But as the series ages, Carthew is determined keep Worms wriggly and relevant, and he plans on doing that with Worms Revolution.

SimCity's multiplayer component represents a new kind of multiplayer interaction altogether; one that deals less with cause and effect, and more with decision and prolonged repercussion.

SimCity's multiplayer component represents a new kind of multiplayer interaction altogether; one that deals less with cause and effect, and more with decision and prolonged repercussion.

Jet Set Radio gets an HD upgrade for PSN, XBLA, and Steam.

Beloved action-platformer Jet Set Radio is getting the HD-conversion treatment with a port for PSN, XBLA, and Steam later this year. At E3 Polygon got a chance to toy around with the Vita version, and so far it's looking pretty good.

Dance Central 3 multiplayer turns your living room into a dance-floor throwdown.

Dance Central 3 was announced yesterday at Microsoft's E3 press conference. The title boasts over 40 new songs as well as the ability to import tunes from Dance Central and Dance Central 2.

After Nintendo's official debut of PIkmin 3 at its E3 2012 press conference, we took some time at their booth to make sure it wasn't just a figment of our imagination.

The core ideals of Pikmin remain 100% unchanged in this latest installment. It's still about controlling a crowd of tiny, colorful, ant-looking creatures, commanding them to battle larger beings and break down walls in a variety of garden environments.

Nintendo reveals Game & Wario, a new mini-game collection for Wii U.

Nintendo's less lovable mascot Wario will have a new game prepped for the launch window of the Wii U, Nintendo announced today. Game & Wario, a working title that softly puns on Nintendo's Game & Watch series, will give future Wii U owners a new sackful of mini-games – not micro-games, mind you – that span a variety of play styles.

New trailer for Pokemon Conquest paints a picture of feudal lands packed with Pokemon

Nintendo released a new trailer for Pokemon Conquest this morning following the company's E3 press conference.

The Wii U will be getting a new karaoke franchise called Sing. Developed by FreeStyleGames, the makers of DJ Hero, Sing allows friends to gather around the TV and make fools of themselves across a variety of pop songs.

Nintendo premiered the game during the company's 2012 E3 press conference. The debut trailer showed off the ability to read lyrics off the Wii U GamePad, so that singers can stand at the front of the room, facing out into their friends as they belt their hearts out. The trailer also showed off a Wii U-friendly microphone attachment.

At Nintendo's E3 press conference this morning, the company confirmed Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon for release on Nintendo 3DS this holiday season.

Luigi will journey through several new mansions, strategically capturing different types of ghosts along the way. The game has been rendered in 3D and will make use of the 3DS' motion technology.

Nintendo reveals its latest fitness game.

At Nintendo's E3 press briefing this morning, the company showed the latest version of its popular Wii Fit series, and the first for Wii U. Wii Fit U will include new events as you would expect, and takes things one step further by letting players upload data from an external device; in the presentation, a woman uploaded data from a run into the system to sync up with her in-game stats.

Scribblenauts Unlimited will bring the word-based puzzle-platformer to Nintendo's Wii U console, 5th Cell just revealed during Nintendo's E3 2012 press conference.

Scribblenauts Unlimited will bring the word-based puzzle-platformer to Nintendo's Wii U console, 5th Cell just revealed during Nintendo's E3 2012 press conference.

Nintendo announces new Pikmin title for Wii U.

At Nintendo's E3 press conference this morning, the company announced a brand new Pikmin game for the Wii U.

The Harry Potter author brings the wizardry of Harry Potter to PlayStation Move this fall.

Channeling 2010's Eyepet, Sony announced a new platform for PlayStation Move tonight with Wonderbook. A sort of delivery system for interactive storytelling, the big news in this announcement is Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's involvement. Rowling is bringing Pottermore, the online expanded universe of Harry Potter to the platform with Book of Spells, an interactive wizarding simulation.

Multiplayer co-op between PS Vita and PS3 coming LittleBigPlanet 2.

Sony announced at its E3 press conference this evening a new DLC for LittleBigPlanet 2 that will make the game playable with the PS Vita.

Peter Molyneux unveils first game with new studio 22 Cans, titled Curiosity. The game will release on PC and iOS.

Peter Molyneux today revealed his first game with new studio 22 Cans, titled Curiosity.

Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski has a new Xbox 360 game.

As part of a series of three new game announcements in Microsoft's E3 press briefing this morning, the company announced a new game called Matter from Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski. A brief trailer showed a Portal-like aesthetic and shape-shifting environments, but we know little about what the game will include beyond that, nor which studio is developing the game.

It's not all guns and fists out there, as the spread of genres this year can attest.

Downloadable titles, Facebook games, sims, and strategy titles are in abundance at this year's E3. Sony Pub Fund darling and PlayStation Network exclusive Papo & Yo stands out with its deeply personal roots alongside Portal designer Kim Swift's charming puzzler Quantum Conundrum. Rumor has it new Nintendo games will be sneaking onto the show floor, many of them announced at last year's E3, such as Luigi's Mansion 2.