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Industry veteran Howard Phillips has joined casual game company Gameduell as its head of game design and user experience. Phillips is expected to help oversee Gameduell’s social and mobile game development projects. The industry veeteran is best known for his time leading Nintendo’s North American operations during the 1980’s – …

GameStop now offers a selection of retro consoles and games for purchase online. GameStop announced the news on Twitter, ushering a resurgence of classic games and hardware for the company. The new retro portion of GameStop’s website includes selections from NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, PlayStation and Dreamcast platforms. …

Nintendo says that more than 1m copies of Splatoon has sold worldwide. This is according to the firm’s own internal metrics, and includes digital and physical sales. 230,000 of the sales were from Europe, 368,000 from Japan and a further 476,000 in the US. 20,000 units have also been sold …

The first chapter of The Odd Gentlemen’s reimagining of King’s Quest will arrive next month for PC, PlayStation and Xbox platforms. King’s Quest: A Knight to Remember is the first of five chapters that comprise the game’s story arc – starring a young Graham looking to prove himself worthy of …

This year, PlayStation walked away with not one, but two of the marketing prizes from the MCV Awards Congratulations on picking up two of the marketing prizes at this year’s awards. What are your proudest moments from the last twelve months? Murray Pannell, marketing director: I’m very proud of how …

Nintendo design legend Shigeru Miyamoto has openly discussed the Wii U’s market struggles, blaming the machine’s high RRP and the rise of tablets for its inability to take off. The price point was one that ended up getting a little higher than we wanted,” the developer told NPR. But what …

Atlus is publishing a western release of Furyu’s JRPG The Legend of Legacy, though the version appears to be limited to North America for the time being. The game will release both at physical retail shops and digitally this holiday season for $40 in the US and $50 in Canada. …

The senior manager of marketing in Nintendo of America’s licensing department has urged the company’s fans to be a bit more adventurous with the digital content they buy. "It seems like a lot of the Nintendo fans and consumers they gravitate towards nostalgia, they gravitate towards platformer and puzzle action …

Nintendo was the first games company to do 3D and the first to do augmented reality, but it looks highly unlikely it will be joining the virtual reality party. Whether it was the new AR ventures of Microsoft’s Hololens or the blossoming VR movement driven by Oculus Rift and Steam …

‘I haven't been able to collect a team or the resources to do it,’ says Kensuke Tanabe