Nvidia has confirmed a release date, and price for their portable device.

The system will be available this June, with ppre-order going live on the 20th of May. If you want to pick one up, we’re told you can via Newegg, GameStop, Micro Center and Canada Computers – it’s currently unknown if you’ll be able to snag one via Irish stores.

Coupled with the news, Nvidia were also keen to remind you what it’s packing:

• Tegra 4 – The world’s fastest mobile processor delivers rich graphics and unbeatable performance thanks to 72 GPU cores, four CPU cores and 2GB of RAM
• Console-grade controller – Precise control thanks to dual analog joysticks, a full-sized D-Pad, left and right analog triggers, full-sized bumpers and A/B/X/Y buttons
• Multi-touch display – 5-inch, 720p retinal multi-touch display for high-fidelity visuals
• Integrated speakers – Custom, bass reflex, tuned port audio system – we think this is SHIELD’s sleeper feature
• Wi-Fi – 802.11n 2X2 MIMO game-speed Wi-Fi for game streaming
• Pure Android – Latest Android Jelly Bean operating system from Google, for access to Android games and apps
• There’s more – We put into SHIELD everything we would want in a premium mobile gaming device: 16 GB memory, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, a mini-HDMI output, micro-USB 2.0, a microSD storage slot, a 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack.

With portable devices like the PS Vita, and the 3DS steadily available – and stocked with a library of titles, we want to know if you plan on picking Nvidia’s Shield up.

City Interactive has rebranded their previously named title Alien Fear, as Alien Rage.

There’s no official word on why the developer decided to go with the new name, so take your guesses, but with the news comes a brand new teaser trailer for the game.

Alien Rage releases later this year on PC, via Steam, the PSN and XBLA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7SaAu1YoxM

Game industry folk say the darndest things on Twitter. In the wake of Mircosoft’s Adam Orth and THAT “always on” Twitter rant, EA Sports software employee Bob Summerwill has decided to give his employer a potential PR headache by lashing out at Nintendo’s Wii U console, calling it a “crap” and “awful console”.

But it dosen’t end there. Bob calls Nintendo a “walking dead” company, the Wii U’s online ecosystem “poor” and Nintendo’s business decisions akin to a company trapped in the early 1990′s. Bob goes on the critisize the console’s GamePad and calling the console less “powerful than Xbox 360.”

It’s been a curious day for EA and Nintendo’s Wii U. In the last 24 hours the company confirmed that it is not developing any games for Wii U, including FIFA 14. Summerwill’s comments rub further salt into Wii U’s wounds. As you can expect, his Twitter rant has since been deleted.

Thanks to NintendoEverything.

Nintendo has confirmed Yakuza 1 & 2 is getting a HD revamp.

Hitting Japan on August the 8th, it’s currently unknown if the title will hit European, or even North America shores, but it will contain brand new features including upscaled graphics and new elements that incorporate the Wii U gamePad.

We can only hope a breeze blows west later this year.

Insomniac Games “seriously considered” making Resistance 4, but instead decided to make FUSE instead, its first multi-platform game with EA due later this month.

In a GameSpot sit down interview with Insomniac’s Ted Price, the studio CEO told of how his team considered making a new Resistance game but the team’s fear of franchise fatigue among other things post Resistance 3 meant that they looked into doing something new and different. Something new and different turned out to be FUSE.

“We decided to bring Resistance to a conclusion when we looked ahead and realized that Resistance 4, while possible and something we seriously considered, wasn’t going to be the right game for us at that time,” Price said. “We wanted to do something new.”

“One of the aspects of building franchises, and sticking with them for a long time is that even the team can get franchise fatigue. We had been pushing hard with Resistance from the beginning–which was a tough birth–to Resistance 3, which is a game we were all very proud of,” he added. “With Resistance 3 it felt like we had capped off, or at least closed a major chapter in that franchise. So, a lot of the team was looking forward to doing something different.”

FUSE is do on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 at the end of this month. The last Resistance game, Burning Skies, was developed for PlayStation Vita by Nihilistic Software. It was something of a dud.

Nintendo has confirmed New Super Luigi U will hit stores, as well as shipping via digital download.

Announcing the news earlier today, the publisher confirmed the title will release digitally on June the 20th, then on July the 26th across Europe, and then finally on August the 25th across North America.

Will you be picking it up through retail, or digitally?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdZ73rRRMqA

The Last of Us will also be released digitally upon release next month, and Naughty Dog has told Game Informer that once the PSN download hits 50%, you can actually jump in and start playing even before the full game has finished downloading. MAGIC.

Naughty Dog’s creative director Neil Druckmann and The Last of Us game director Bruce Straley told Game Informer that Sony had figured out a way to allow players to actually jump in and start playing the game once the download hits the half way mark, meaning that players won’t have to wait as long to play the highly anticipated new IP.

Sony revealed in February that PS4 games will be playable from almost the exact moment they start downloading. It looks like they have figured out a way to adopt this feature onto PlayStation 3 too in some way. Hats off to them.

The Last of Us is exclusive to PS3 from June 14th.

FIFA 14 is not in development for Wii U. EA remarked earlier today that they were not currently working on any projects for Nintendo’s console, but many thought that the format-centric FIFA franchise would almost certainly be an exception. As it turns out, its not.

In an statement released by Eurogamer, EA Sports said it took the decision after poor sales of the Wii U version of FIFA 13.

“Six months ago FIFA 13 was a launch title on Wii U,” an EA spokesperson told Eurogamer. “Although the game featured FIFA’s award-winning HD gameplay and innovative new ways to play, the commercial results were disappointing. We have decided not to develop FIFA 14 on Wii U.”

EA unanimously supported Wii U at launch with big name titles like Mass Effect 3 and FIFA 13. With no games in the pipeline, not even the next FIFA, the Wii U needs a pick me up. Uncertain times lie ahead.

A collection of brand new DriveClub screens have hit the net.

Courtesy of Neogaf, it’s currently unknown if the screens are actual real-time gameplay or not, but with E3 looming, we should know more about it all soon.

Take a look and see what you think.

Sony has revised Killzone: Mercenary’s release date, a reaction you would think to the game originally being slated to release the same day as a little unknown game called Grand Theft Auto V.

It will now be available in Europe from September 4th with a pre-order nabbing you receive two days worth of Double XP and an in-game cash bonus via Blackjack’s Briefcase. You’ll also net the ISA M224-A1 Light Machine Gun.

Check out the new trailer below. There’s more to life than Grand Theft Auto, apparently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAJ-b-gJDRM

Nintendo’s latest Ninty Direct presentation has revealed a new Mario & Sonic collaboration in Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games for Wii U.

The new game will feature a wide variety of Olympic winter sports – including but not limited to – skiing, snowboarding, bobsledding, pairs figure skating and curling. Players will have to use both the GamePad and the Wii Remote Plus, depending on the event they are playing.

Curiously the game will also include fantastical events set in the world of Mario and Sonic, in which characters have special abilities not possible in the real world. Mixed events that combine sports like skiing, snowboarding and bobsledding in one race, will also be available.

It’s due in February 2014.

Thanks to Polygon.

Mr. Metal Gear Hideo Kojima has confirmed that Platinum’s Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is getting a PC release.

Kojima announced the news on his HideRadio podcast, before Platinum’s own Jean Pierre Kellams reiterated the news on over on Twitter.

Revengeance released earlier this year on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

We have no other information about the PC port at this point. We’ll keep you posted.

Konami has confirmed that they will release the Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection in the US this July, but are still mute on the subject of a European release.

The entire set includes the original Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid 3: HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions and Metal Gear Solid 4: Trophy Edition. It also includes Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.

It’s exclusive to PlayStation 3.

It’s due July 9th in the US. Hopefully a EU release will hit retail around the same time.

SEGA has announced details of an exclusive partnership with Nintendo which means that Nintendo platforms have will be the “number one destination” for the next three Sonic games, starting with Sonic: Lost World on Wii U and 3DS.

“Sonic the Hedgehog has proven incredibly successful on Nintendo platforms and we are pleased to continue our long-standing relationship with Nintendo,” said John Cheng, President & COO, Sega of America. “As we initiate this new exclusive partnership with the next three titles we believe that Wii U and Nintendo 3DS are ideal platforms to showcase the evolution of the Sonic brand.”

Details relating to Sonic: Lost World are slim for now, but the title is being described as an action-adventure platforming game.  Nintendo says they will have more information to share with eager gamers as we approach E3 2013 in June.

Square-Enix has announced that a HD port of Final Fantasy VIII is in development for PC. No other formats were mentioned.

Kotaku understand that the new edition is Japan only as of now, but it would make sense for a Western release to follow.

Check out the first screens above and below. Final Fantasy VIII was first released in 1999 on the original PlayStation.

Watch this space for more details.