Nintendo’s New Console Will Change How You Watch Television

Nintendo’s New Console Will Change How You Watch Television

Nintendo’s Wii U is better than its enormously popular predecessor in all the expected ways. The new console, which comes out on Sunday, has more processing power and prettier graphics than the six-year-old Wii. But what’s most noteworthy about the Wii U is its new controller. The Wii U GamePad combines the buttons and motion sensors of the original Wiimote with an iPad-like touch screen equipped with a microphone and a camera. This will allow kids to play a hi-def Mario game on the tablet while their parents watch something else on the TV. It also enables new types of gameplay. The gory horror game ZombiU, for instance, uses the tablet as an overhead map, a keypad for electronic doors, an inventory screen for juggling weapons and tools, a crosshairs view when you’re using a rifle, and even an augmented reality display. Hold it up in front of the TV, and it seems to scan the virtual environment and reveal previously hidden items.

Michael Eisner Returns to Movies With Universal Deal

Michael Eisner Returns to Movies With Universal Deal



The former Disney CEO's privately held Tornante Co. inks a multiyear pact with the studio for worldwide distribution of feature films.

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Stanley Kubrick: 5 fond memories

Stanley Kubrick: 5 fond memories

Anthony Breznican shares great stories told at Academy salute to director by Malcolm McDowell, more

An Oscar split between screenplay and picture?

An Oscar split between screenplay and picture?

Award Central:
Categories were always in sync, until last year

The Hobbit Could Send Movie Fans on Unexpected Journeys — or Start a Nerd War

<em>The Hobbit</em> Could Send Movie Fans on Unexpected Journeys — or Start a Nerd War

Six different film formats, including the world's first look at high-frame-rate footage, means Tolkien fans will have to do some legwork to find their experience of choice. Will LOTR fans like the high-def look?

New 'Star Wars' Movie Has Treatment by 'Toy Story 3' Writer

New 'Star Wars' Movie Has Treatment by 'Toy Story 3' Writer



Sources confirm Michael Arndt has written a 40-to-50-page extended outline for the new movie and will likely write a draft of the script.

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Never-Before-Seen 1980s Photos of Famous Directors

Never-Before-Seen 1980s Photos of Famous Directors

       
             

In his newest collection, "Director Series," Norman Seeff unveils never-before-seen images, as well as some rather famous ones, of some of entertainment's most brilliant minds, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jim Henson, Ridley Scott and John Huston.

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