Consoles

Nintendo: Market could grow by 50%

Speaking at the CGA’s ongoing Casual Connect event in Seattle, Nintendo of America’s senior director of product development Tom Prata has predicted that despite the recent boom in the target audience of the console game market the sector could still be set for 50 per cent more growth in the …

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Playcast launches streaming gaming service

Whilst ambitious tech projects OnLive and Dave Perry’s Gaikai have been jostling for a share of the headlines, a little-known Israeli company called Playcast has beaten both to the punch by launching a streaming games service in its home country.

 Launched in conjunction with cable provider Hot, the pilot service …

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Aguilera suffers Wii Sports injury

Mirroring the incident that saw a staff writer inflict pain upon a colleague when Nintendo’s Wii first arrived at the Intent office, American pop star Christina Aguilera has reportedly suffered an injury whilst playing popular multiplayer romp Wii Sports.

 GameDaily reports that a source stated: Christina loves her Wii as …

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Spall: Xbox 720 and PS4 will be browser-based

The traditional console hardware cycle is broken – this we know. But veteran games developer Matt Spall yesterday went one further yesterday at the Develop Conference, claiming that we will never see another ‘traditional’ console coming to the market.

 Speaking of the rising importance of cloud computing, which was made …

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