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Nintendo, in a rare move, has announced it will be cutting the price on five of its first-party 3DS hits – including Mario, Donkey Kong, and Animal Crossing titles. The company states that as of April 22nd of next week, Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land, New Super Mario …
Read More »VIDEO: Nintendo to give Tomodachi Life a shot in the West
Having gained a devoted following in Japan, Nintendo’s new Animal Crossing” is going to be debuted on 3DS in Western markets. It’s quite hard to explain Tomodachi Life. In fact, you might be better off simply watching Nintendo’s totally leftfield debut video below. Described by some as The Sims meets …
Read More »Pitchford explains next-gen no-show for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
The relative install bases of current and next-gen has been pegged as the reason for the lack of PS4 or Xbox 360 release for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. "Currently there is, between PS3 and Xbox 360, over 150m installed units worldwide – probably 170m is more realistic," the boss of the …
Read More »Xbox One gameplay YouTube uploads coming today
The ability to upload gameplay clips to YouTube will be patched into the console today, Microsoft has confirmed. It comes as part of an update to the YouTube app. Users will need to adjust their system settings as detailed on the Xbox Wire to get everything up and running. The …
Read More »Xbox begins original TV programming push in June
Entertainment Studios head Nancy Tellem says shows targeting core audience of gamers
Read More »Xbox and Channel 4 to create new TV show Humans
Sci-fi drama Humans to debut on Channel 4 and Xbox next year. Kudos, the studio behind Broadchurch, The Hour, Utopia and The Tunnel, is producing eight hour-long episodes of the series, which is based on the original Swedish series Real Humans. It will air on Channel 4 in the UK …
Read More »‘Britain can lead the world in games development’, says Osborne
George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, praised the games industry at an event that marked the launch of the long-awaited tax breaks for video games development. The event was hosted by UKIE and the TV Coalition this morning, and featured the Chancellor as a key guest as he celebrated …
Read More »Xbox One is closing PS4 performance gap, Oddworld dev claims
Microsoft’s ongoing work with Xbox One’s development tools is helping its machine catch up with the until now superior technical performance of PS4. That’s according to Oddworld Inhabitants co-founder Lorne Lanning, who told Xbox Achievements that: So I would say, months ago, there was a wider gap. But I don’t …
Read More »Pink 2DS arriving in UK next month
A pink version of Nintendo’s 2DS handheld will be released in the UK in May. The SKU is currently available to pre-order from Nintendo’s online shop for 109.99. It will be released alongside Kirby: Triple Deluxe on May 16th. Interestingly the SKU is not currently being listed by any other …
Read More »EA apologies for ‘unacceptable’ and ‘stupid’ Frostbite Wii U jibes
Peter Moore has publicly apologised for April Fools tweets sent out by the official DICE Frostbite account that mocked the Wii U. MCV yesterday reported that Frostbite joked that it had added support for Wii U since it is the most powerful Gen4 platform”. The tweets have since been removed …
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