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Miitroid.

The next Wii U demo I tried was a quirky mix of Miis and Metroid. Up to two players could team up with Wii remotes dressed up as a Mii with Samus' suit against the person with the Wii U controller who manned her gunship. A short training mode let players get acquainted to the controls by shooting at floating targets, then each side was released into a large arena to shoot it out in third person; the player with the most hits won.

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Nintendo one-ups the Wii, iPad, and DS all at once.

In a developer video reel, Danny Bilson of THQ described Wii U's tablet-touchscreen as the "swiss army knife of controllers," and there is no better way of putting it. Wii U's controller really does everything, but it also melts in your hands the way the Gamecube's did all those years ago.

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Follow the crew's live blog via Twitter of the Nintendo Press Conference at 12:00 PM EST/9:00 AM PST!

Jason, JD, and Matt R will be in attendance at the Nintendo Press Conference and they plan to live blog the whole thing via twitter. We've embedded the Twitter feed below, as well as a chat box for discussion amongst yourselves as the updates roll in. We've embedded a player for your convenience!

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The staff lends their best guesses for what the upcoming show has to offer excited gamers.

E3 2011 appears to have crept up on us once again. Just as we did last year, the staff has come together to provide predictions for the coming show. This year, unlike last year, most of the show is a huge question mark.

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Side B of our 3 sided launch extravaganza includes talk of level 100 carrots, MMO failures and bitching about 3D, micro transactions and everything in between

In the second part of our PixlTalk 2.0 launch series, Nate hosts with Matt R, Stanton and Jason H sitting in for a talk concerning modern gaming.

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