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Read More »Wii U sells less, generates more dollars than original Wii launch
Nintendo’s newest console is tracking behind its predecessor in terms of US launch sales, but is bringing in more dollars. Wii U sold 460,000 units in the US last month, according to new NPD data, bringing its total lifetime sales up to 890,000. An NPD spokesperson said: "Sales of the …
Read More »Animal Crossing helps push 3DS sales past 10m in Japan
The popularity of Nintendo’s 3DS in Japan shows no signs of abating with the device having now sold over 10m units in the territory. The release of Animal Crossing: New Leaf helped the handheld to sales of over 400k units in the final week of December alone. The machine hits …
Read More »Video games is the star in record year for Kickstarter
2012 was a fantastic year for crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, and video games have emerged as the big winner. A total of 18,000 projects were backed by 2.2m contributors in 2012, with video games winning the largest slice of pledges totalling $83m of the $320m total from 561,000 backers across 2,796 …
Read More »CCP merging Dust 514 and Eve Online servers tomorrow
'Massive technical and game design endeavour' to bring together game universes
Read More »2013: What industry leaders want to see
MCVasks UK games industry experts about why 2013 will be much, much better than 2012. Christoph HartmannPresident, 2K2013 is set to be an exciting one for me personally, and for 2K. We kick off the year with the release of the eagerly anticipated BioShock Infinite in March. We can also …
Read More »Nintendo finally ready to delve into free-to-play market
It has a reputation for resisting technology and business developments, but Nintendo has finally conceded to the logic of the free-to-play space. It marks a notable change of tact from president Satoru Iwata, who in 2011 pledged that Nintendo would never venture into the F2P market for fear of further …
Read More »Fully 3D Pokemon X and Pokemon Y hitting 3DS worldwide in October
Nintendo has announced the first ever ‘proper’ 3D Pokemon outings – Pokemon X and Pokemon Y. It’s also the first time the series has been released on 3DS. Nintendo president Saturo Iwata went to great lengths to repeatedly tell his Pokemon Direct audience that the game will release simultaneously worldwide …
Read More »Telltale "could do a great Star Wars story game"
Having single-handedly proven that episodic, narrative-driven gaming is very much a financial reality, Telltale has name-dropped some other key IP. Many of Telltale’s staff are former developers from LucasArts – a perfect reason, it argues, why it could do the Star Wars IP justice. Coming from LucasArts we always felt …
Read More »Del Toro in talks with "very big company" over InSane game trilogy
Being dropped by the troubled THQ was not the end of the road of Guillermo del Toro’s InSane trilogy, it seems. The revered film-maker and game fan has revealed that he’s in talks with a major player to bring the in-development games to market. We are in talks with a …
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