Consoles

More 3DS games dated

Following confirmation earlier this week that eight games will launch alongside the 3DS in Japan on February 26th, Nintendo has now dated a further 16 games that will be out in the month that follows. As reported by Andriasang, seven games have been given definitive release dates: March 11th: Super …

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505 lines up Grease for motion controllers

505 will release Grease for PS3 Move and Xbox 360 Kinect later this year – but it will be a very different game to the one that hit Wii and DS last year. The firm admits that the market shifted significantly during the development of the first version – and …

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Bee.com slashes triple-A pre-orders

New online retailer Bee.com has signalled its intentions in the video games market by offering a number of upcoming new titles for a discounted price of 29.99. Part of the Music Box Leisure Group, the site offers a range of goods including DVD, Blu-ray, music and gadget. Its games offering …

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Sniper: Ghost Warrior sequel confirmed

A sequel to one of 2010’s surprise hits has been confirmed by Polish publisher City Interactive. Sniper: Ghost Warrior arrived last summer and was a surprise inclusion in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top Ten, much to the delight of the game’s distributor Mastertronic. Incidentally, it was the Huntingdon …

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3DS games region locked?

Software for the Nintendo 3DS will be region locked in much the same way as DVDs, consumer blog VG247 is reporting. In recent years the portable market has been free of region coding, with software for both the DS and PSP being (on the whole) universally compatible across all territories. …

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Nintendo denies DSi discontinuation

Platform holder Nintendo has denied claims that it has stopped manufacturing the DSi ahead of the launch of the 3DS over the next two months. This morning Kotaku reported that the machine was out of production in Japan, with inventory stock being all that’s left of the machine in the …

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Big Mario push planned for 2011

Nintendo reckons two new titles out next month can help keep consumers excited about Mario following the mascot’s 25th anniversary. Mario Sports Mix for Wii and Mario vs Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem are out for Wii and DS respectively on February 4th. Nintendo saw the full range of Mario games …

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Koch helps German publisher reach UK players

A popular German publisher will see a number of its games hit UK shelves via Koch Media. BitComposer’s PC games Wildlife Park 3 and Air Conflicts: Secret Wars (also coming to Kinect) will reach stores later this year. As a franchise Wildlife Park has sold over 500,000 units worldwide since the …

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3DS games won’t dry up, Iwata promises

Gamers can expect regular software releases to be very much the norm with its upcoming 3DS handheld, according to Nintendo president Saturo Iwata. Speaking to a Japanese newspaper, as translated by Andriasang, Iwata made the following pledge: "It’s important that you be able to supply software with no pause. With …

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