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The overall value of sales for the video game industry, combining retail games sales and hardware, has seen a drop of 34 percent in the sales figures delivered by the NPD Group for the month of January in the United States, when compared to the same period of last year. Overall revenue came in at 750.6 million dolla... |
10 February 2012
05:17 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware maker Nintendo has officially announced that it has named its first ever spokesdog in the person of Uggie, which audiences might know from his star turn in The Artist, the black and white film that has received a number of Oscar nominees.
Uggie’s main job for the coming months... |
9 February 2012
10:17 GMT |
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With both Sony and Microsoft unwilling to talk about the next generation of home gaming consoles, one video game industry executive believes that the next big battlefield for the two companies might be gaming-oriented television sets. Speaking to CVG, David Pery, one of the co-founders of Gaikai and the public face ... |
8 February 2012
21:21 GMT |
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High Definitions graphics have quickly become one of the most important selling points for modern video games, but at least one legendary developer hailing from Japan believes that game structure and storytelling are more important than looks even on modern home consoles. Speaking to Satoru Iwata, who is the leader ... |
7 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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It seems that before the Nintendo-made Wii U home console and its tablet-like touchscreen controller became a reality at the 2011 edition of the E3 trade event, rival Sony was thinking of creating a similar device and even filled a patent for it back during 2010.
The Sony incarnation of the idea was called “Po... |
6 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has confirmed to investors that the company wants to start releasing downloadable content for some of its games, in order to keep them popular among existent owners and attract new customers.
While Sony and Microsoft have embraced the practice of downloadable content for their video games,... |
2 February 2012
19:51 GMT |
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The developers at Genius Sonority, who are well known for their work on Nintendo-made handheld devices, have announced that they plan to launch a new 3DS title that will use the much-touted Augmented Reality features of the device.
The game is called Radio Wave People and will challenge the player to collect a numbe... |
2 February 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Team Ninja, the developer of popular series like Ninja Gaiden or Dead or Alive, has confirmed that Nintendo has been making constant changes to the Wii U prototypes it sent to the Japanese studio.
The Nintendo Wii U is getting ready for its release later this year and, seeing as how the company is declining to revea... |
1 February 2012
19:11 GMT |
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Video game hardware maker and publisher Nintendo has announced that the Pearl Pink version of the Nintendo 3DS handheld will be launched as a standalone product on the United States market on February 10.
The new hardware will cost those interested 169.99 dollars (129 Euro) and it is already offered on European mark... |
1 February 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Nintendo has revealed that the hardware in its upcoming Wii U home console isn’t designed to compete with current generation consoles, like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, and that the company will once again try to emphasize gameplay experiences over high quality graphics. The Wii U is set to be released at th... |
31 January 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono, the producer of the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken fighting game, has confirmed that Nintendo has been upgrading the features of its upcoming Wii U since the console’s original presentation back at E3 2011.
The Nintendo Wii U is the next big home console from the Japanese manufa... |
31 January 2012
04:23 GMT |
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The senior leadership of Nintendo has announced that the worse-than-expected launch performance of the Nintendo 3DS handheld has served as a learning experience for the company and will influence how the launch of the Wii U home console will be structured.
Satoru Iwata, president and chief executive officer of Ninte... |
30 January 2012
21:41 GMT |
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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has revealed that customers from all around the world are now eagerly awaiting new home consoles, basing its statements on the dwindling sales experienced by the company’s Wii as well as its rivals, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The current generation of consoles has been arou... |
30 January 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Nintendo has long been accused of being unable to understand the Internet, and the Wii has suffered because it lacked a service that could directly compete with the PlayStation Network from Sony and the Xbox Live service from Microsoft. But now Nintendo is ready to launch ... |
30 January 2012
02:55 GMT |
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Nintendo might have posted a series of financial results for the last nine months of 2011 that were below expectations and included losses, but the company was proud to announce that the much-maligned 3DS handheld was now the fastest selling product that the company has ever launched worldwide.Satoru Iwata, the presi... |
27 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Video game publisher Nintendo has announced that the upcoming PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond will be launched exclusively on the Nintendo Wii home gaming console in Europe on March 23 of this year.
The plot of the game is linked to a number of Pokemons who have disappeared in the Wish Park, with the player being ... |
27 January 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Nintendo has confirmed that this fiscal year it is going to release a new Mario game for the 3DS, and that its gameplay will have traditional 2D side-scrolling mechanics. Nintendo has been using its biggest mascot, Mario, to heavily promote the 3DS handheld console. It already released two big games last year, inclu... |
27 January 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Video game hardware maker and publisher Nintendo has announced that it posted a net loss of 48.3 billion Yen (624.2 million dollars and about 476 million Euro) for the nine-month period which ended on December 31, 2011, and has lowered its estimates for the entirety of the current fiscal year, which is set to end on ... |
27 January 2012
04:34 GMT |
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Video game hardware maker and publisher Nintendo has stated that it will be launching the new Wii U home console on markets like United States, Europe, Australia and Japan before the end of 2012, although it has not said that the new device will be out at the same time on all these territories.
Satoru Iwata, who is ... |
27 January 2012
02:58 GMT |
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A brand new report has arrived concerning the Nintendo Wii U, this time saying that its hardware is twice as powerful as the Xbox 360.
As we get closer to the release of the Wii U, more and more rumors and reports are coming in about its hardware, its features and plenty of other things. Nintendo’s secrecy con... |
26 January 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for research firm Wedbush Morgan, stated that the upcoming digital revolution would affect console makers in very different ways and might have the biggest negative impact on Nintendo and its Wii devices.
Speaking to IndustryGamers, the analyst stat... |
25 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Nintendo has confirmed that it won’t fix the glitch that happens on Mario Kart 7’s Maka Wuhu track, which allows players to bypass a certain section of the course.
Mario Kart 7 has been one of the best selling games that appeared on the Nintendo 3DS late last year. Since then, it delighted millions of co... |
18 January 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Records have revealed that the Entertainment Software Association has spent up to 190,000 dollars (149,000 Euro) during 2011 in order to lobby in favor of the Protect IP Act, with at least four transactions linked to lobby groups that have discussed a range of matters with members of the United States Congress.It see... |
17 January 2012
22:11 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Tecmo Koei has announced that the upcoming Dynasty Warriors VS, which will be launched on the Nintendo 3DS handheld, will be focused heavily on multiplayer, allowing gamers to choose between 1 versus 1 engagements, 2 versus 2 battles and battle royale modes that include 3 and four p... |
17 January 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Mole Kart has got to be one of the biggest video game ripoffs of all time, and it somehow made it in the iTunes App Store with a $2.99 price tag and several sneaky in-app purchases that promise to deliver the full game experience.
According to Shanghai Taomee Network Technology Co.,Ltd., “Mole Kart brings you ... |
13 January 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware maker Nintendo has begun shipping a plastic stand with copies of Kid Icarus: Uprising on the Japanese market, giving players a way to engage with the game in a more comfortable way.The stand seems to be specifically designed in order to allow players to put the 3DS in a more convenie... |
13 January 2012
07:54 GMT |
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December 2011 has been a worse than expected month for the video game industry in the United States and the numbers released by tracking firm NPD Group have shown that hardware has been particularly hard hit, posting a decline of 28 percent when compared to the same period of 2010.The value shown by the NPD is of 1.3... |
13 January 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Club Nintendo members from the U.S. can take advantage of some really impressive rewards for their activity, with digital versions of classic titles from the Legend of Zelda or Mario franchises being offered until the end of the month. Club Nintendo is a website where owners of consoles from the Japanese company ca... |
12 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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The Nintendo 3DS handheld has once again managed to deliver a solid week on sales on the Japanese home market while the new PlayStation Vita from Sony has continued its lackluster performance during a week that did not see any significant video game releases.The 3DS has managed to move 240,819 units for the seven day... |
12 January 2012
09:42 GMT |
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We already known that video game hardware maker and publisher Nintendo will be launching the Wii U home console during 2012 but we still lack a lot of details about the new device, something that the company plans to rectify all through the year.Speaking with Spike at the CES 2012 event Reggie Fils-Aime, who is the l... |
12 January 2012
05:52 GMT |
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A report in the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, compiled by Entertbrain, shows that the Japanese video game retail market has fallen 8 percent in terms of value during 2011 when compared to 2011, even as overall hardware sales managed to grow.The overall value of video game related sales in Japan for 2011 has been ... |
9 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who is behind the most significant gaming franchises created by Nintendo, has announced that at the moment he is working on a entirely new, unannounced video game project, while still overseeing the work done on Pikmin 3 and on the Nintendo 3DS titles Luigi’s Mansion 2.Speaking to Zoom... |
9 January 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Video game developer Capcom has sought to clarify its stance over the Stop Online Piracy Act bill, which is currently under the consideration of Congress, saying that it will not offer an official position from the company about the provisions but will continue to offer a position as part of the Entertainment Softwar... |
6 January 2012
20:51 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, who is the analyst watching the video game industry for Wedbush Morgan, believes that the new Nintendo 3DS handheld has managed to get on the right track and now has a bright future ahead of it, especially for 2012.Speaking to Eurogamer the analyst stated, “With the strong rebound in 3DS sales,... |
6 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Rumors about a new Pokemon video game for the Nintendo 3DS have been around for some time but there are some new hints that the Japanese publisher and hardware maker might be getting ready to soon make an official announcement.Siliconera, a site that closely watches Pokemon and Japanese video games, has received a Ne... |
5 January 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Despite the solid success of the recently launched The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword the developer working on the series at Nintendo are ready to abandon the current continuity in order to once again reboot the world for the next game to feature Link and Zelda.One of the leading developers on the franchise seems to ... |
4 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Video game hardware creator and game publisher Nintendo has announced that with 4 million units moved on the United States market during the whole of 2011 the 3DS handheld is now better performing, for a nine month period, than the Wii home console was on launch.Despite the good sales performance, especially after th... |
4 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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The Entertainment Software Association, the organization which represents many of the biggest players in the video game industry, has issued an official statement in support of the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill which sits before Congress and would open up new avenues of attack against those who host copyright infrin... |
4 January 2012
10:20 GMT |
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A number of huge players in the video game world have taken their names of the list of supports for the Stop Online Piracy Act bill which is now under consideration by Congress, probably because of pressure coming from their fan bases.Nintendo, a company that creates both software and hardware, Sony, who is in the sa... |
3 January 2012
17:31 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii U is scheduled to arrive in the second half of the year, but this hasn’t stopped a couple of new reports from appearing on the web, claiming that the Japanese company wants to offer applications for the Wii U through its special online service, not to mention extra features, including E-Reader ... |
3 January 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Fire Emblem, the upcoming turn-based strategy title coming from Nintendo for its 3DS handheld device, has just received its first gameplay video, showcasing the new game, as well as its fights and cinematics.
The Fire Emblem series of video games has impressed quite a lot of Nintendo fans over the years, so the comp... |
30 December 2011
03:30 GMT |
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the Nintendo Wii game that stars one of the biggest characters in the company’s history, has sold under 320,000 units on the Japanese market during its debut month, which is one of the worst performances ever posted by a game in the series.The problem is worsened by the fact ... |
30 December 2011
02:59 GMT |
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Mario Kart 7, the Nintendo 3DS bound racer from Nintendo, has managed to regain the number one position in the Japanese video games chart for the week that ended on December 25 as supplied by research firm Media Create.The week was especially important because it is one of the biggest shopping periods of the year and... |
29 December 2011
05:49 GMT |
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2012 is the year when the PlayStation Portable Vita from Sony is finally launched in both North America and Europe and this might actually mean that the Nintendo 3DS, a device that has enjoyed a good period lately, might face some tough times.Colin Sebastian, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for Bai... |
29 December 2011
04:16 GMT |
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After revealing the first details about the multiplayer modes in Kid Icarus: Uprising, Nintendo has now presented a short video demonstration that shows off gameplay from the two modes that will be playable both online and locally. Kid Icarus: Uprising is among the few big games that will appear for the 3DS in the f... |
29 December 2011
03:52 GMT |
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The Nintendo 3DS is enjoying its best weeks ever on the Japanese market and is also seeing a revival in the United States and analysts believe that the only thing that the hardware developer needs to do in 2012 is to keep launching high profile titles developed in house in order to keep up momentum.Michael Pachter, w... |
28 December 2011
22:31 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and video game publisher Nintendo has released a new trailer for the 3DS handheld which showcases the Letter Box application, also known as Swapnote.The app can be downloaded from the eShop store and it allows those who use the device to use both the StreetPass and the SpotPass connectiv... |
28 December 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Nintendo introduced the possibility for developers and publishers of 3DS games to offer downloadable content for their titles, and it seems that the upcoming Fire Emblem title for the handheld device will be the first to take advantage of this system.
While downloadable content and add-ons have flourished on platfor... |
28 December 2011
03:39 GMT |
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Nintendo has just revealed a few more details about its upcoming Kid Icarus: Uprising game for the 3DS handheld device, which is now set to appear, in its native Japan at least, on March 22, 2012.
Nintendo has just finished releasing some extremely popular games for the 3DS, in the form of Super Mario 3D Land or Mar... |
28 December 2011
02:32 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and publisher Nintendo has announced that it has sold more than 4.1 million units of the new 3DS handheld on the Japanese market, managing to turn around a hardware platform that seemed destined for failure just a few months ago.The 3DS has been launched in Japan in late February of this... |
27 December 2011
08:17 GMT |
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