Nintendo has unveiled its new console, Wii U, which president Satoru Iwata has hailed as "a new structure for home entertainment."
On stage at Nintendo's E3 press conference in Los Angeles, the new controller was revealed. It features a 6.2 inch touchscreen, and play can be stopped when someone else wants to take over the television, and resumed on the controller screen. It also has two analogue sticks, face and shoulder buttons, accelerometers, a gyroscope, front-facing camera and rumble.
In our feature Flash Forward, available to read in Edge 229, we ask a range of thinkers where gaming might go next, how and why. One of those thinkers is Phil Harrison, who joined Sony in 1992 and has been instrumental in the company’s videogame hardware and software strategies. After helping to launch the PlayStation in 1996, Harrison went on to become president of Sony Computer Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios in 2005.
Felicia Day is a serial overachiever, the kind of person you might resent if she didn’t have such a disarmingly likeable manner. The 32-year-old actor, writer and producer has created her own successful original web series The Guild (inspired by her obsession with World Of Warcraft), contributed voice acting to Fallout: New Vegas, and worked with BioWare to create a dramatic extension of the Dragon Age universe.
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