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The development team at publisher Ubisoft working on Assassin’s Creed has announced that the demo of the game to be shown at the upcoming E3 2012 trade show will include six cinematics. The team has not explained whether they are taken from random sections of the game or whether those who see the demo will be ... |
25 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Neither Microsoft nor Sony has offered any official details about their next-generation home consoles, but French video game publisher Ubisoft believes that it will be able to use their features to introduce more social features in its titles.
Yves Guillemot, the chief executive officer of Ubisoft, has stated, &ldqu... |
16 May 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Nintendo has so far refused to confirm which video games will be released on the Wii U home console once it is finally out all over the world, but a leaked form United Kingdom based retailer Blockbuster seems to show a number of announced and unannounced titles that are linked to the platform.
The screens show the f... |
7 May 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Nintendo has recently announced that it will launch digital versions for the core 3DS handheld titles at the same time as packages hit retail stores and now the company says that the move is designed to give gamers more options and not to undercut retail.
Satoru Iwata, pre... |
3 May 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Nintendo is not yet ready to talk about actual video games that will arrive on the Wii U home console, but the company believes that, when they are revealed, players will be impressed by the quality of the experiences currently under development.
Satoru Iwata, the man who fills both the president and the chief execu... |
2 May 2012
17:51 GMT |
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Nintendo might have already committed to launching its all-new Wii U home console during 2012, but the company will take its time before offering an actual, solid launch date for the new hardware or putting a price tag on its device.
Speaking to investors after its latest financial results were announced, Satoru Iwa... |
30 April 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer Nintendo is not yet ready to talk about the launch line-up for the upcoming Wii U home console or about its hardware, but that has not stopped rumors from cropping up about what the new device might offer.
Nintendotown, a French website, has suggested that Wii U will get access to a num... |
27 April 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Nintendo has reported its first ever annual loss for the year that ended on March 31, saying that it has lost 43.2 billion Yen, about 531.1 million dollars (402.8 million Euro) while overall sales came in at 647 billion Yen, around 8 billion dollars (6.06 billion Euro).
Th... |
27 April 2012
08:57 GMT |
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The fact that Nintendo will have two new devices out before the launch of the next game in the Super Smash Bros. video game means that the series might introduce some very innovative mechanics linked to the Wii U and the 3DS.
Masashiro Sakurai, who is the leading producer working on the next Super Smash Bros., told ... |
27 April 2012
07:03 GMT |
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The new Star Trek video game, which is being developed by Digital Extremes, might get a Nintendo Wii U version when it is launched in early 2013, but the companies working on the title are not ready to talk about all the platforms yet.
Brian Miller, who is the senior vice president and a producer working at Paramoun... |
26 April 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Crysis 3 might be ready to push the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the PC to their limits when it comes to graphics, but the development team is not yet ready to test the power of the upcoming Wii U from Nintendo.
Rasmus Højengaard, who is the creative development director working at Crytek, told Destructoid... |
26 April 2012
03:05 GMT |
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The Wii U is the only next-generation console to be confirmed as launching during this year, but Nintendo might fail to make the new platform a success as long as it does not manage to attract third-party publishers to the new device.
Michael Pachter, who is an analyst working for Wedbush Morgan, has told GamesIndus... |
18 April 2012
20:41 GMT |
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The current gaming space is dominated by the first-person shooter genre and other types of games, regardless of the quality they deliver, are struggling to make an impact because players pay little attention to them.
Tony Hawk, who is one of the best-known skateboard athletes in the world and a consultant on the vid... |
18 April 2012
15:01 GMT |
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The remake of Baldur’s Gate is set to arrive during the summer, with a number of new quests for players to enjoy and some new characters, and the development studio working on the game has offered details on other changes that will be made to the experience in order to accommodate the added content. Speaking o... |
18 April 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Nintendo has confirmed that it will be revealing a new installment in the Super Mario Bros franchise, designed from the ground up for the new Wii U home console, at the upcoming E3 2012 trade event.
A statement from Nintendo says that, “In a recent interview, Mr. Miy... |
17 April 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Nintendo might be looking for some remake candidates for the upcoming launch of the Wii U home console, and their most important video game developer seems pretty set on upgrading the well-known The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past to modern standards.
Shigeru Miyamoto was speaking at an event in Paris and stated... |
14 April 2012
02:21 GMT |
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The Wii U from Nintendo is the first next generation to launch, expected to be available all over the world before the end of this year, but it seems that developers are already criticizing the hardware of the new platform and its capabilities.One developer who was contacted by GamesIndustry has stated, “It&rsq... |
3 April 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii U home console is set to launch before the end of the year and one of the most important publishers in the industry, Ubisoft, is ready to take advantage of whatever digital strategy plans to implement for the device, using the newly acquired experience of the PlayStation Vita as a guide.
Chris Early... |
28 March 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Pokemon Smash, one of the Japanese only television shows linked to the franchise, has teased an important announcement for next week, saying that it will offer information on an entirely new product.
Recently, Gamefreak and Nintendo have used the television show to reveal the existence of Pokemon Black & White 2, th... |
27 March 2012
02:29 GMT |
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Brian Reynolds, who is currently the Chief Game Designer working at social game developer Zynga, has stated that the next generation of home consoles can benefit from the addition of real or virtual keyboards.Speaking in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz the veteran developer stated, “I’m sure they&rsqu... |
26 March 2012
21:01 GMT |
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One source inside Microsoft claims that at the moment the gaming-oriented division of the company is working on two new consoles, one of them being a stripped down version of the current Xbox for the casual market and another a true successor device that will be aimed at the hardcore fans.
Writing on the Reddit plat... |
23 March 2012
06:48 GMT |
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Unreal Engine 4 is not yet ready for primetime, but one of the leading executives at developer Epic Games says that it can deliver experiences that are already more impressive than the Samaritan tech demo shown last year.
Mark Rein, who is one of the vice presidents at Epic Games in charge of the development of next... |
14 March 2012
04:10 GMT |
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One of the main developers working at Nintendo on the core Mario franchise believes that one of the main attractions of the series is the way it managed to use each new generation of hardware to deliver a new and fresh gaming experience.
Koichi Hayashida, who is the game director working on Super Mario 3D Land, told... |
13 March 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Nintendo has great hopes for the Wii U home console, which is set to arrive before the end of 2012 on all major markets, but the company might be in for a rude surprise, believes one analyst.
Speaking with GameTrailers, Michael Pachter, an analyst working with Wedbush Morgan, stated, “I think that if in fact i... |
13 March 2012
14:41 GMT |
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A source inside the video game industry has suggested that Monster Hunter 3G will be launched on European markets during July while another source has told RevoGamers that the game will be introduced during summer. Other sources were previously quoted as saying that the game will arrive during fall. Capcom has not ... |
12 March 2012
06:56 GMT |
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Team Meat has suggested that it is ready to create video games for the Nintendo made platforms, especially the handheld, despite the limits that the company places on the size of the content that can be delivered to its devices.
Speaking to Nintendo Gamer, Tommy Refenes, the main programmer behind Super Meat Boy, st... |
28 February 2012
03:01 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for Wedbush Morgan, has said that the potential market share for the upcoming Wii U home console from Nintendo will be half of what the original Wii was able to capture.
The actual performance of the new gaming platform will be decided by how Ninten... |
27 February 2012
07:41 GMT |
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The developers at Nintendo working on Mario Open Tennis have announced that they are planning to launch the Nintendo 3DS bound tennis simulation on May 25 in the United States and that they have a trailer set to show off the features of the title. The game experience seems to be very similar to that of Mario Power T... |
23 February 2012
13:41 GMT |
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A number of patents that video game hardware developer Nintendo has filled with the United States Patent and Trademark Office suggest that the controller for the upcoming Nintendo Wii U home console might have a controller which integrates glass free 3D and voice recognition. When Nintendo first showed off the Wii U... |
21 February 2012
15:01 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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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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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 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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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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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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Nanea Reeves, who is a chief product officer working at Gaikai, has told IndustryGamers at the CES 2012 event that, “Not all of the current console makers will have one more generation. That will be the big news at E3.”We already know that Nintendo is planning to launch the Wii U home console at some poin... |
12 January 2012
05:20 GMT |
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GameStop, the biggest specialist retail chain linked to video games, is seen by many as a barometer for the health of the industry overall and two analysts believe that in the coming year the company will perform well mainly because of the launch of new gaming hardware.Michael Pachter, who is an analyst looking at th... |
10 January 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard has officially confirmed that it is working on a home console version of its upcoming Diablo III, with an executive from the company telling the audience that the project was proceeding at a good pace.Micah Whiple, who is one of the community managers working at Blizzard, has answered qu... |
10 January 2012
10:17 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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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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Andrew House, who is the leader of Sony Computer Entertainment, has reiterated that the company believes that it will sell more than 15 million PlayStation 3 home gaming consoles before the end of the 2012 fiscal year, which happens on March 31.The executive has said that at the moment overall sales of the platform a... |
19 December 2011
15:01 GMT |
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A Japanese magazine, called Coro Coro Comics, has a teaser in this month’s edition which suggests that it will have an exclusive reveal for a new Pokemon video game in the edition which will hit newsstands on January 14.
The magazine talks about a “big surprise,” but it does not offer any sort of r... |
16 December 2011
02:19 GMT |
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Nintendo is a company that develops most of its big franchises in house and rarely works with Western development studios but it seems that more such cooperation might happen in the future, with a new The Legend of Zelda game a possible target.Speaking to Wired, Shigeru Miyamoto stated, “As you know, we have al... |
14 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Skyward Sword, the most recent Nintendo Wii video game using Link as the main character, made full use of the motion control offered by the platform and one of the main designers working on the game believes that buttons cannot regain their place as the main control method for the series.Eiji Aonuma, who is a produce... |
14 December 2011
10:17 GMT |
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The developers at Team Ninja have confirmed that they are planning to launch Ninja Gaiden 3 during the month of March 2012, both through Yosuke Hayashi, the lead producer on the title, and via a follow-up message through Twitter.The hack-and-slash video game installment will again follow Ryu Hayabusa as he fights hor... |
9 December 2011
12:01 GMT |
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A list of job openings posted by the Quebec studio of French publisher Ubisoft has offered information that the company might be working on a MMO project that will be launched on the upcoming Nintendo Wii U home console.Emile Gauthier, who is a communication specialist at Ubisoft, says that the developer is looking f... |
7 December 2011
05:31 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii U might be about one year from launch but the Japanese manufacturer says that it plans to continue support for its older devices and plans to target a new breed of consumers with its new platform.Reggie Fils-Aime, who is the leader of the United States division of Nintendo, has stated, “The con... |
2 December 2011
15:01 GMT |
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The Wii U home console from Nintendo might not yet have a launch date but some developers are already talking about how easy it is to actually create video games for it when compared to the Xbox 360 or the PlayStation 3.David Adams, who is the general manager at Vigil, spoke to Game Informer about the tech demo for t... |
29 November 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Ninja Gaiden 3 might aim for a more nuanced story than that of previous games, but the developers are saying that the only moral compass that the main character will have will still be his own survival.
Yosuke Hayashi, who is the leader of development working on Ninja Gaiden 3, told Siliconera, “A dark hero wa... |
25 November 2011
02:31 GMT |
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