Consoles

Wii U has already sold out, retailers have told MCV. Multiple games buyers have told us their launch allocation of the Wii U has been completely taken by pre-orders fromeager early adopters – one week ahead of the console’s November 30th launch. In fact, some retailers have told us their …

The official midnight opening for next week’s Wii U launch will be held at the flagship Oxford Street store of entertainment retailer HMV. Following reports of high demand for the new console, HMV has even secured extra stock for the launch so that customers will be able to purchase Wii …

Yes, it’s actually happened. ESPN reports that 21 year-old Vugar Huseynzade has successfully landed himself a job as the manager of Azerbaijan football outfit FK Baku’s reserves. Huseynzade, who was born in Azerbaijan and has studied in universities in Sweden and the US, was hired back in February in an …

Ahead of the release of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Sony has lifted the lid on an artistic promotional campaign for the game. It has teamed up with illustrator and life-long gamer” Aled Lewis to produce three pieces that combine key characters from the game and iconic scenes from three films. …

The developer of Metro: Last Light has lashed out at the technical innards of Nintendo’s Wii U. Wii U has a horrible, slow CPU,” 4A Games’ chief technical officer Oles Shishkovtsov told NowGamer, with colleague Huw Beyon adding: We had an early look at it, we thought we could probably …

Can Wii U replicate the record-breaking success of the Wii? That’s the question gripping the industry at the moment following the console’s North American launch at the weekend and the upcoming UK arrival next week. But there’s certainly no doubt from 2K Games president Christoph Hartmann who in an interview …

The recent video game cover of free mag Shortlist has broken records for AR firm Blippar. The campaign was blipped almost 230,000 times at an average of 4.5 blipps per user, with an average usage time of 6.24 minutes, and the data claims that the result has made ShortList the …

You’ll soon be watching eSports in pubs and reading about it on the back pages of newspapers, says IGN. The media giant – which runs global eSports event IPL – says that the sector is growing at such a pace that it could become a mainstream sport in as little …

Nintendo might be selling Wii U hardware at a loss, but each sale should still result in a profit for the platform holder. The Wii U hardware will have a negative impact on Nintendo’s profits early after the launch because rather than determining a price based on its manufacturing cost, …

Over a hundred GAME stores have had Wii U demo pods installed for the public. As is the way with Nintendo’s experimental approach to hardware design, explaining it is fairly tricky – getting hands on is easily the best way for the public to get their head around how it …