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It was Fathers’ Day yesterday. It’s the one day of the year when dads across the world are in theory given licence to ignore their endless list of chores for 24 hours and put their feet up. Unless you’re an American. If you’re from the good ol’ US of A …

Nintendo of America has extended its offer for buyers of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D to claim a free soundtrack for the game. Eurogamer reports that thanks to what the platform holder calls "strong demand and technical issues", Nintendo has now extended the deal to guarantee the …

Just three years after it hit retail Codemasters has shut down the online servers for Race Driver: Grid. The move only relates to the PS3 and PC versions of the title. The Xbox 360 servers will continue to operate as normal. "After three years of service, 2008’s Race Driver: GRID’s …

GAME is offering 3DS owners the chance to pick up The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D for just 99p. The pocket money price point is available to everyone that trades in any two 3DS titles when picking up the hotly anticipated Nintendo remake, according to the retailer’s website. …

Zelda fans hoping for to pick up a commemorative collection of the pointy-eared hero’s adventures this year will be disappointed. NintendoWorld’s translation of the latest Iwata Asks interview reveals that the Nintendo of America team had proposed to mark the Zelda series’ 25th Anniversary with a special compilation disc, but …

The Genji developer, famous for its E3 gaffe, may have built its last game

There are few things as sickening in this self-promoting and capitalist world as a money-laden celebrity taking to the camera to peddle insincere lies about a product in exchange for a big fat cheque, right? If that’s the sort of thinking you subscribe to then you should take great delight …

The announcement of the Wii U may mean that Wii’s time left on the market has suddenly become finite, but Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata believes there’s plenty of sales opportunities left for the device. "It can be said that for any consumer product, different audiences buy a product at different …

Platform holder Nintendo has admitted that the early performance of the 3DS at retail has fallen some way short of the company’s internal expectations. "I think it’s fair to say that while Nintendo 3DS had a strong launch day, the results since then have not met our expectations," president Satoru …

Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U will be a far "friendlier" platform to traditional hardcore gamers and publishers who release games for that audience. "Trying to make a Call of Duty experience on the Wii, you’ve got to make real sacrifices in the game just based on processing power and some of …