Today's dual-core and quad-core tablets are quite powerful devices. Many Tegra 3-powered Android tablets can run games that rival PC games from five years ago. Shadowgun, anyone? But tablet controls suck, badly. Nyko's cute PlayPad controller gives players a better way to control their games — with a mini controller.

You've never seen a fighting stick like the Free Fighter. It's not chunky and doesn't weigh a ton. Nyko's Free Fighter is modular, meaning it splits apart and can be connected any way you want it. It's so brilliant, we're wondering why nobody else has thought of the idea first.

For the second straight E3, all eyes are on Nintendo's Wii U and Wii U GamePad. You've seen the games and read our hands-on impressions and now we've got word of some bad news concerning the Wii U GamePad's battery up-time and dual GamePad usage that don't bode well.

The Wii was a brilliant console despite its last-gen graphics and waggle for one reason: it expanded gaming and simplified the complexities of the modern controller's analog sticks, buttons and triggers with intuitive motion-control. The Wii made mom, dad, grandma and grandpa see they too could enjoy gaming; that the pass-time wasn't just for the so-called "core" gamer. With the Wii, Nintendo touted that gaming could appeal to everyone. Nintendo's strategy with the Wii U might sound cheesy — "Together, Better" — but is the Wii U and its tablet-esque controller turning its back on the very casual gamers it embraced with the Wii? I have reason to believe so.