Wednesday Shorts: OmniTouch, Blindside, THQ.com relaunch, Guillermo del Toro

Go grab a cuppa. You’re in this one for the long haul.

Ever asked yourself what it would be like to use your hand as a touch pad? Microsoft has answered the question for you.
Guillermo del Toro thinks games and movies are different, because of the immersion and the player being part of “the narrative control.”
CyberConnect 2′s CEO feels that games need to avoid making the same mistakes as anime.
PS Home has been updated with new challenges for the Uncharted 3 Total Game Integration and Fortune Hunter.
GameFront has another exclusive video for War in the North today. This one focuses on the Dwarf.
Microsoft has released a video of a family playing Kinect Sesame Street TV and Kinect Nat Geo TV.
Blindside, due out January from indie devs Michael T. Astolfi and Aaron Rasmussen, is a survival horror title with no graphics whatsoever.
The Broken Sword trilogy is on sale through GOG, and the firm has added Broken Sword: Angel of Death to its ever-expanding library.
THQ has relaunched its website with a new UI, improved functionality, stronger search, and consumer feedback.
Closed beta registrations are now open for EverQuest II: Age of Discovery.
Turbine has said it took its forums offline to fix a bug which would have compromised the forum database.
Want your voice to portray a monster in R.O.H.A.N.? Find out how to go about this, here.
Ubisoft has announced four new game show titles: Family Feud 2012, Hole in the Wall Deluxe Edition, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and The Price is Right Decades.
Oh look! Portal plushies! Do, want.
Andriasang has posted shots of Gundam: Mokuba no Kiseki and Dragon Quest X.
Facebook has refined its MAU/DAU calculations and some games don’t have as many users as previously thought.