Jim Reilly

Nintendo is launching its own video service for the Wii U. It allows users to browse live content though the Gamepad controller.

Nintendo confirmed it will launch the Wii U in North America on November
18. The basic set costs $299.99. The premium launches for $349.99 and
includes a copy of Nintendo Land.

Activision confirmed it's releasing Call of Duty: Black Ops II for the
Nintendo Wii U. The launches this November. An exact release date was
not provided at this time.

Nintendo is hosting a global Wii U event this morning. It's expected
this is where we'll learn about the price and release date of the new
console. It kicks off at 10 AM Eastern.

Nintendo today confirmed the price and release date of the Wii U in
Japan. The console launches on December 8, 2012 and comes in two skus, one
standard and one premium.

Update: The website again updated with the number 2 and a new phrase. "I recognize your pain. Your kind must learn it comes from straining
against the turning world. It spins thus. You cannot stop it."

Last month, Ubisoft and Rock the Vote announced a partnership to bring awareness to this year’s upcoming election. Now, the publisher announced the “Art of the Assassin” is debuting in Chicago on Thursday, September 27.

Darksiders II is getting more content through the upcoming release of Argul's Tomb. Players can expect new boss fights
and two new dungeons.

EA released the first screenshot of Real Racing 3 for the new Apple
iPhone 5. The game is being developed by Firemonkeys and is due out
later this year.

Konami announced the release date for New Little King's Story, the
sequel to 2009 Wii RPG, The game arrives on Vita as a download early next month.

Sean Smith, the U.S. state department official who was
killed in Libya yesterday at the American consulate, was a long-time Eve Online
player. Smith went by the name of Vile Rat in his guild the Goonswarm.

The latest issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu confirmed Earth Defense Force 4 is arriving next year for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Update: A new teaser trailer for YAIBA was released this morning. Check it out.

YouTube user TheJamster1992 did what Square Enix has yet to do: Remake
Final Fantasy VII. He did so using LittleBigPlanet 2, of course.

Valve revealed the first 10 titles that were greenlit through its new community-focused publishing system Steam Greenlight. Among them is Black Mesa, the long-awaited Half-Life mod that uses the latest Source engine.

Sony announced the firmware update for PlayStation 3, v4.25, increases
PlayStation Plus members' online save storage from 150 MB to 1 GB. The update is available soon, Sony says.

We already knew the price and release date of the Mechromancer class download content for Borderlands 2. But now we have a name.

Update: Bohemia Interactive CEO Marek Spanel issued a statement about the arrests.

Microsoft announced it signed a deal with cloud streaming company Agawi
to bring cloud-based gaming to Windows 8 using the Windows Azure
platform.

Frictional Games said sales of its first-person horror adventure Amnesia
has sold 1.4 million units in its lifetime. The sales figure includes
numbers from Humble Indie Bundle and the Potato Bundle last year.