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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is now scheduled for release on Wii early next year – so says the game’s producer. Nintendo previously dated the title with a loose window of 2011 during its official revealing at E3 last month. The basis we have now is very, very solid,” …

Culture Minister Ed Vaizey gave a well-rehearsed speech to a large group of games industry professionals at the Develop Conference in Brighton this morning, encouraging the sector to move on from ongoing tax breaks uncertainties and to look elsewhere for financial support. I know that, to put it mildly, most …

Develop 2010: Fishlabs CEO predicts big things for the mobile games industry

It’s a problem that has caused the DS market to collapse” and seen software sales drop by 50 per cent in Europe over recent months, but one publisher reckons Nintendo will finally thwart the pirates with its upcoming 3DS handheld. What excites me even more than 3DS games is that …

Develop 2010: Yet games such as Uno and Sudoku cover over 30 per cent of the digital store

The Nintendo 3DS won’t change in appearance before it hits shelves next year, the publisher has confirmed. When asked whether the look of the 3DS will change before release, Nintendo’s veteran game producer Hideki Konno told Wired: You can take this as the final shape.” The first DS was initially …

The 3DS will mark the start of a new era for Nintendo’s digital distribution strategy, according to company president Satoru Iwata. During a recent investor session, Iwata claimed the new handheld’s launch will be good timing for a dramatic improvement of this situation”, according to Siliconera. In addition to the …

3D may be the industry buzzword of 2010, but did you know a major proportion of the UK population can’t even see it? Over six million British consumers have poor binocular vision, which means they either cannot see or have difficulty seeing the effects on 3DS or in movies such …

Publisher Namco Bandai has slapped an October 8th European release date for upcoming action title Enslaved. The game, which will be released for PS3 and Xbox 360, is being developed by Ninja Theory – the studio behind PS3 launch title Heavenly Sword. It’s is being co-directed by Lord of the …

EA has announced that the PC version of football title FIFA 11 will at last boast the same sort of visual fidelity as the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. Recent versions of the sports outing on PC had lagged behind their console counterparts, having been based on older versions of …