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Super Smash Bros Brawl developer working on original Wii outing for Ubisoft
Read More »PopCap: "Nintendo hasn’t stolen our thunder"
PopCap’s creative director and co-creator of the mammoth casual gaming success Bejeweled, Jason Kapalka, has insisted that firms such as Nintendo are not ‘stealing its thunder’ despite the fact that the huge sales numbers for many casual titles continue to go unrecognised. Kapalka was responding to a recent report on …
Read More »Pikmin and Mario Tennis dated for Wii
Nintendo has announced the UK release date of the first two GameCube titles scheduled to receive the Wii-control makeover treatment – Pikmin and Mario Power Tennis. To find out what they are, click here to visit CasualGaming.biz.
Read More »Wii to topple PS2 from console throne
Following some serious number-crunching of NPD’s latest sales figures for North America, Venture Beat has predicted that Nintendo’s Wii is on track to snatch the PS2’s title of the world’s most successful ever home console – though it also predicts that PS3 is destined to finish third in the current …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Wii Fit returns to the top
The ever-popular Wii Fit has proved that it’s far from out of steam this week by returning to the top of ELSPA Gfk-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 for the fifth time, knocking last week’s number one, EA’s FIFA 09, back to number four. Nintendo’s exercise outing has never held onto …
Read More »European Wii sales hit 14.2m units
Nintendo has sold 8.3 million units of its Wii console in 2008, making it the largest annual home console seller in European history. The figure is a 58 per cent increase over 2007, and takes the total European Wii installed base to 14.2 million units. Nintendo’s DS also broke European …
Read More »Trivial Pursuit coming to next-gen
US publisher EA is set to bring family board game favourite Trivial Pursuit to a host of games platforms this March, with versions planned for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, mobile phones and online on Pogo.com. CasualGaming.biz has the complete story – click here for more details.
Read More »New Balance Board outing from Konami
Japanese games developer and publisher Konami has announced that it is to release its first title designed to work with Nintendo’s Wii Fit accessory the Wii Balance Board this April – Marbles! Balance Challenge. For the complete story, click here to precariously wobble your way over to CasualGaming.biz.
Read More »Iwata: DS market is not saturated
Despite leading many of the most important global games market over the last couple of years, Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has stated that he believes there are still millions of potential new DS owners out there. To read his comments in full, click here to hitch a ride to CasualGaming.biz.
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