Consoles

As the long, long wait for Polyphony Digital’s PS3-only racer Gran Turismo 5 continues, Gran Turismo brand manager Penrose Tackie has confirmed that a brand new demo of the game will be made available on the European PlayStation Network on December 17th. Called GT Academy 2010 Time Trial, the Top …

Nintendo’s Wii has become the fastest-selling home console in the history of the UK, surpassing six million sales after just three years on the market. According to GfK-ChartTrack upweighted data, the console hit the milestone in week 48 this year – exactly two years and 51 weeks after it went …

Though it remains the daddy of the current console market, sales of Nintendo’s Wii are showing year-on-year declines across the board – and the company’s manufacturing partners are now feeling the full effect. Nikkei reports, courtesy of Kotaku, that manufacturing pair Mitsumi and Hosiden are set to suffer a year-on-year …

The Times has named its top 50 modern-day games in today’s paper. Sensibly shunning an ordering system to organise the titles into two categories – ‘Games For Adults’ and ‘Games For All The Family’ – the paper’s Christmas list includes some established modern classics, as well as a few esoteric …

Nintendo believes it can draw new gamers to the Zelda series for the first time with upcoming DS release Spirit Tracks. The game, which hit shelves on December 11th, is being backed by Nintendo with a wide-scale TV campaign – as the firm aims to capture ‘occasional gamers’ who have …

US Wii sales for the crucial Thanksgiving week checked in at 550,000 units, according to Nintendo, down from 800,000 last year. Nintendo said it was happy with the result, following 2008’s high peaks. The firm recently dropped the console’s price $50 to $199 to stimulate demand in the console, which …

The man who secretly revealed Natal in 2007 makes new indications for Microsoftâ??s future

The team behind Guitar Hero are busy working on a way to create a game for Microsoft’s Project Natal. The co-founder of RedOctane, Kai Huang, has revealed that the firm is investigating the idea of having a camera track players’ movements – and said the firm is exploring the possibilities” …

Having launched in Nintendo’s homeland of Japan on November 22nd, numbers from stats body Enterbrain show that the DSi LL sold 103,524 units in its first two days on sale, according to Kotaku. By comparison, Sony’s PSPgo sold 28,000 units in its first 48 hours on the market. Still, the …

But the Wiiâ??s hardware is holding those possibilities back, says MMO veteran Jeff Strain