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Not just yesterday, we saw Andrew House, the boss of Sony Computer Entertainment, reassure everyone that the company's favorite games and its colorful box art weren't going anywhere. The way he sees things, digital distribution is indeed catching up as far us numbers go, but it's not going to replace t... |
27 November 2009
04:16 GMT |
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It seems like the decision made by Electronic Arts to fire 1,500 people has even greater ramifications than just unemployment. Most of the remaining studios can't help but feel insecure after the massive layout, and, with a constant blade being pressed against their throats, they have to make some cutting of the... |
25 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Last week, Nintendo made a bold, new mode and introduced demo versions for Wii games, but, this week, it's back to its old shenanigans. Four new games have been added this week for download in the WiiWare section, and the first one is BIT.TRIP VOID. The retro rhythm title continues the trend of the previous inst... |
25 November 2009
03:30 GMT |
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Even though it is a bit of a detoured information, it seems like No More Heroes will be finally traveling to other consoles as well. Originally, the intel got leaked on the Wii@Everyday blog, which eventually ended up as part of Famitsu's news. Then, GameSpot translated the scans and was in the position of makin... |
19 November 2009
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The last game in the Ace Attorney saga to be announced by Capcom was Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, and it was given official disclosure back in June. It had as release date for the DS February 16, so, when it was announced, everyone thought that they'd have to wait eight more months before they c... |
19 November 2009
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This year, E3 saw Nintendo drowning the crowd in Super Mario titles. The convention offered us some insight into the New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 2 or Bowser's Inside Story, but other Nintendo names have been shy to come on stage. The Legend of Zelda had a brief and stage-fright-covered performa... |
19 November 2009
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It seems like it's not just gamers that feel the nostalgia of the old titles. Nintendo misses all the verbal abuse along with the following praise it received from the nerve-wrecking games from the days of the NES. Stuck on the Wii, the latest titles the gaming giant released were mainly aimed either at a younge... |
17 November 2009
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Nintendo just recently announced that it planned to release game demos for the Wii and it has already made it happen. This week's list of downloads from Nintendo also includes fives demos for the Wii console. The first one on the list is also accompanied by its full game and it's the Pokemon Rumble. The tit... |
17 November 2009
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A new Silent Hill is going to be out and in gamers' hands on December 8, as Konami has announced a new installment in the series. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories will be brought to the Nintendo's Wii, but PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable users will have to hold their breath a little longer. Unfortunat... |
13 November 2009
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As proof that it takes just a little bit of creativity and an innovative spark to give birth to something successful, Capcom's courtroom adventure game has proven to be a genuine hit. The title has build around itself a serious fan base, whose cries and pleas have turned Ace Attorney from a standalone title on t... |
11 November 2009
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Nintendo has a lot of new additions to this week's download list, so we're going to jump right to them and start off with the WiiWare. First off, we have Excitebike: World Rally, another installment in the Excitebike franchise, which will allow players to soar across a bumpy dirt-road on their mountain bike... |
10 November 2009
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After being announced that it will come to the PlayStation 3, it seems like Tales of Vesperia will arrive on Nintendo's Wii as well. The rumor was started by Rikiya Koyama, a popular Japanese voice actor. According to him, Namco Bandai plans to once again release the game to a new platform and try to salvage som... |
9 November 2009
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Back at the Tokyo Game Show in September, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers got everybody riled up, as it announced itself as a game that "truly [stood] out both on its choice of platform and within its series." But, in hoping to overcome the lesser game that Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echo... |
5 November 2009
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Nintendo sheds its more typical shyness for this week's line of games and gives a stunning eight new titles for download. So, get your consoles ready and let's get this started. First off, we have the WiiWare that receives three games, Carnival King, "Aha! I Got It!" Escape Game and Family Card Games. The f... |
3 November 2009
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Nintendo's downloads list for the Halloween week has arrived and it seems worthy enough to be a holiday release. If anything, it has definitely hit the classic themes: zombies, pirates, ghosts, barbarians and sudoku. OK, maybe the last one isn't really a classic and is not at all scary, but we can call it a... |
27 October 2009
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There are a few names in gaming history that really stand out. These are the names that are well known even amongst those that didn't get the chance of a hands-on experience with them. One of these games is GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64, developed by Rare. When a game makes it big, the first thing you can ex... |
27 October 2009
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Warren Spector from Junction Point Studios had an interview with Game Informer and it was all about Epic Mickey. The project is one of his children, so it represents quite a bit of his own ideals and wishes. The title is a result of all the game-design ideas he has had in the past few years, put together and tied wit... |
26 October 2009
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Another Wii game is making its way from across the ocean to arrive to North America. The title that left the Japanese shores is Arc Rise Fantasia, a J-RPG developed by Ignition Entertainment. It is the first one to be developed for the Wii by imageepoch, the guys responsible for 7th Dragon and Luminous Arc games. Bot... |
23 October 2009
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Shigeru Miyamoto offered an interview with Popular Mechanics and the future of the Wii was put under the microscope. The main thing that was discussed was whether or not the motion controls would be making a comeback. It seems like their popularity hasn't slipped Nintendo's watchful eye, and they're a ... |
22 October 2009
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A nine-month revenue of $17.1 billion is a big number even for corporate giant Nintendo. Not only that, but the company even expected another big holiday season with figures to further increase its revenues. But as time progressed, their expectations weren't met and by July sales fell by 40 percent and profits b... |
21 October 2009
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Ever since it first appeared at the Nintendo press conference at the 2005 E3, the Wii developer had plans for color variations. A black version of the console may have been unveiled back in 2005, but it's only this June that the console resurfaced with a dark polish. The Wii came bundled with a black Wii Remote ... |
21 October 2009
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Nintendo's Wii has been around for three years now and even though it proved to be everything it promised, that being an endless source of fun, people still managed to find things to complain about. Apparently, one of them was the lack of color variation. At first, it might be a bit weird that people so focused ... |
15 October 2009
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The karaoke game We Sing has proven to be a huge hit for Nordic Games Publishing AB. Their Nintendo Wii exclusive title is doing far better than expected and right now they might have trouble answering the demand of the public. The karaoke game took a pretty unique spin on the rhythm music genre and it might become o... |
13 October 2009
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The New Super Mario Bros Wii should have the same long-lasting effect as the DS version of the game. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, this Mario will continue to keep sales up and be a successful title well after its original release time frame. Second only to the Pokemon Diamond & Pearl, the DS New Super Mario Bros ha... |
13 October 2009
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A new game for Nintendo's Wii has been announced today by interactive entertainment publisher Mastiff. To add to their popular series of outdoor action games the studio is currently working on the Remington Great American Bird Hunt, which will be an arcade shooter that will allow players to hunt down and shoot p... |
13 October 2009
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Sin & Punishment did pretty well when it was launched on the Nintendo 64 and even if it let enough loose ends, it wasn't followed by the sequel everyone expected. The game had to wait nine years before it could spawn an offspring. Sin & Punishment 2 was first announced by Nintendo at a press conference last year... |
7 October 2009
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The modern consoles are used to receive firmware updates more than any other previous generation. But “they don't make them like they use to” definitely seems to apply to gaming platforms. Not only do they need constant updates to operate in compatibility with all the official releases but it looks l... |
2 October 2009
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Nintendo's weekly updates add a few interesting titles to the already wide array of choices. We'll first take a look at what the WiiWare has new to offer. The first to get the wheels rolling is Taito's Arkanoid Plus! which will continue the series' addictive arcade style block-busting action but w... |
29 September 2009
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At the Game Tokyo Show, Goichi Suda, the creator of the Killer 7 and Wii's No More Heroes games, offered an interview for IGN.com in which several topics were discussed, but the more interesting would be the future development for No More Heroes. To be more precise, the future the game has alongside Nintendo... |
28 September 2009
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At the 2009 Tokyo Game Show, Capcom revealed Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, a new episode in the Resident Evil series, which will be a Wii remake for the Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil Code: Veronica. The presentation started with producer Masachika Kawata and the new game trailer. The action will take pl... |
28 September 2009
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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption seemed to put a lid on the series and no news of any further developments was heard. Retro Studios didn't have any official releases or content in their schedule and not even rumors surfaced about the series. But it looks like the game might see some more action after all. In a recent... |
24 September 2009
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Nintendo wasted no time boasting its new additions to the Mario game list at the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Along with the Super Mario Galaxy 2 that is set to be released in 2010, the publisher also announced the New Super Mario Bros for the Wii. Nintendo’s vice president of sales and marketing, Cammie... |
24 September 2009
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Nintendo's MotionPlus add-on hasn't seen much support from game developers. Except for Wii Sports Resort and a few EA sports-themed releases, the Wii feature is pretty much an unused trinket. However, game developer Ghostfire Games plans to change that by releasing Rage of the Gladiator, a title expected to... |
24 September 2009
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In the state of Florida a drug bust deviates from the course and yet another case of police misconduct is reported. Police brutality, extortion or indecent proposals are not the plot of this story. After raiding the house of a 43-year-old man and finding drugs, weapons and stolen property, police officers continued t... |
23 September 2009
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During an August statement Nintendo president Satoru Iwata stated quite clearly that the company was not ready to release a second version of its most popular product, the Wii console. He said that it wouldn't "happen any time in the near future" so the competition is making a move to undermine Nintendo's s... |
22 September 2009
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Another bit of information regarding the Nintendo price drop on the Wii is flowing around the endless void that is the web. Beside all the recent appearances of all sort of advertisements that are to be laid out in retail stores, it seems the closest thing to an official statement has been released. Or at least the c... |
21 September 2009
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The NPD Group has released the data for both hardware and software sales that took place in the month of August in North America, the most important market for the videogaming industry. And, as numerous voices predicted, it's not a pretty sight to look at. Overall sales are at 908.72 million dollars, which is 16... |
11 September 2009
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Nintendo is again dominating both the hardware and the software charts in Japan, with the main culprit being Wii Sports Resort, the new Wii game that is bundled, at a reduced price, with the Wii Motion Plus add on.The best selling game console is, for what seems like an eternity, the Nintendo DSi, which has managed t... |
6 July 2009
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Namco Bandai is apparently very interested in the age old art of cheerleading and hopes that gamers are obsessed all the same as it is announcing that a new We Cheer videogame is in development. Namco Bandai is set to release We Cheer 2 on the Nintendo Wii in the fall of this year for the price of 39.99 dollars. Get ... |
26 June 2009
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For some time now, the Nintendo Wii has been dismissed as being a toy and a gimmick that does not have the operating power needed to support “real games.”With the console now being the best sold of its generation, developers and publishers are beginning to shift their position and a lot of so-called hardc... |
25 June 2009
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The Nintendo Wii is a hugely successful gaming console, thanks to its huge library of games, easy-to-use interface and the fact that it is made by Nintendo, one of the most recognizable gaming companies that is also quite respected by others. But a lot of Wii's success is due to the fact that its motion-sensiti... |
19 June 2009
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The NPD Group has offered the data for sales of videogame hardware and software in the United States for the month of May and it's not looking too good. Year over year, the videogames industry actually registered a slump in sales of 23%, the worst seen this year. Of course, part of this is because of the strong ... |
12 June 2009
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Namco Bandai is serious about targeting the Western market with its biggest franchises as it has just announced that it plans to release a new title in the Dragon Ball franchise, called Revenge of King Piccolo, designed specifically for the Nintendo Wii home gaming console.The game is set to be released during autumn... |
26 May 2009
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For the second week in a row, the Nintendo made DSi is the best sold videogame console in Japan as the entire market is seeing a slowdown in sales. One of the main reasons is probably the lack of big videogame releases to drive up demands for consoles but the overall economic downturn could also be blamed for the los... |
25 May 2009
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Ubisoft is interested in conquering the all important Nintendo Wii videogame market and has begun presenting a host of games targeting the audience of the home console. It has just announced that it is developing and releasing an arcade football game called Academy of Champions, set to be out before the end of the ye... |
25 May 2009
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Nintendo has announced that it plans to release all the titles of the Metroid Prime series on a single disk for the Nintendo Wii. The product will be coming on August 24 and will be priced at 49.99 dollars. The first two titles of the trilogy, which were initially released for the GameCube, will be updated in order t... |
25 May 2009
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The gaming industry has a lot of iconic figures in the form of reputed game designers that have shaped the way we interact with games and how we can enjoy them in the privacy of our own home or on the go, thanks to handheld devices. Without a doubt, one of the most respected designers is Nintendo's Shigeru Miyam... |
22 May 2009
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Bethesda has managed to get quite a bit of attention lately. Fallout 3, the first game in the long running franchise that the company has developed, has been praised by critics and has been commercially successful. The three downloadable content packs that it has released for the game have been solid, even if plagued... |
19 May 2009
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The gaming industry is an ever-changing one, thanks to companies that always want to gain the upper hand on their rivals and introduce new and exciting things just so they can get the customer's attention and, of course, money. In an effort to shed some light on what things might happen in the next few years, W... |
19 May 2009
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In the Land of the Rising Sun, the skies were a bit dark for Nintendo, as the PlayStation 3 solidly outsold the Nintendo Wii, and as the PlayStation Portable overtook the Nintendo DS. But the situation has been reversed, with the Wii and DS becoming the best selling products in their categories.The Nintendo DSi sold ... |
18 May 2009
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