Nintendo of America has announced the re-release of Pikmin 2 on Wii. The game was originally released on Gamecube back in 2004. It was later retooled to take advantage of Wii Remote, and the updated release hit Japan and Europe in 2009. No US release date ever came about at …
Read More »Robert Bowling forms indie studio
Robert Bowling, the former ‘creative strategist’ who resigned from Infinity Ward in March, has launched his own indie games studio focused on digital projects. Los Angeles outfit Robotoki has begun a hiring run and has targeted games for next-gen consoles, PC, and mobile devices. As an industry we have a …
Read More »Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance hits Europe in July
Square Enix has revealed a Europe/PAL territories release date for Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]. The 3DS title will arrive on July 20th in the aforementioned regions, ahead of the July 31st target in North America. The reveal was originally made via a shown at Europe’s Nintendo Direct presentation …
Read More »PS4 and Xbox 720 sales won’t match current gen, analyst believes
The PlayStation 4, Xbox 720 and Wii U will fail to match the sales of their immediate predecessors, analyst Piper Jaffray believes. In fact, analysts Michael J. Olson and Andrew D. Connor believe that between them the three machines will see an average software sales decline of 53 per cent …
Read More »Brand Map: Prince of Persia
This week GameVision takes a look at the Brand Map for Ubisoft’s long-running action franchise Prince of Persia. We asked 6,848 gamers about this brand. 1,315 had played within the last six months and of these we asked 379 to tell us about the game in detail. The Prince of …
Read More »PS3 price drops occur at select retailers
Two high profile retailers have dropped the price of the PS3 from $249 to $199. Amazon currently offers the 160GB Playstation 3 system at the reduced tag. GameStop is also offering the console at the same price, but bundles in a free copy of Batman: Arkham City or Mortal Kombat: …
Read More »Trials Evolution downloaded 100k times on day one
Ubisoft owned developer RedLynx has said that its recent Xbox Live Arcade release Trials Evolution was downloaded over 100,000 times on day one. In fact, so high was the appetite for the game that publisher Microsoft has been forced to draft in additional servers. The game was released on Wednesday, …
Read More »VIDEO: Grimlock struts his stuff in Transformers FOC
Activision has released a brand new trailer for upcoming action title Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. And this time the limelight is handed over to Dinobot leader and general Jurassic badass Grimlock. As well as some concept art, we also see him in-action via some alpha game footage. Watch out for …
Read More »Xbox sales drop, blames ‘soft gaming console market’
Microsoft entertainment and devices division sales down 16%
Read More »OnLive PlayPack hits 200 games
Streaming games service provider OnLive has announced the addition of the 200th game to its subscription based PlayPack offer. The company is also hosting what it calls the ‘PlayPack 200′ event, which promises 200 hours of events for customers and kicks off from 5pm tonight. Anyone who signs up for …
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