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Nintendo has released Pokemon Bank in Europe following its festive delay. The service was originally announced way back in September and was supposed to launch worldwide over Christmas but was delayed following the technical problems that plagued eShop over the period. It finally arrived in a few Asian territories late …
Read More »Iwata: Nintendo console development should be like mobile
Standardised programming between systems and generation leaps could increase amount of software on new hardware
Read More »Borderlands 2 is 2K’s best-ever selling game
No, BioShock is not the best selling game to come from the 2K stable. That honour falls to Borderlands 2, which as revealed by Take-Two in its financials last night has now sold over 8.5m copies meaning it has surpassed every title in the BioShock series and also beaten the …
Read More »Ex-Zynga Dallas devs form new free-to-play mobile studio
Boss Fight Entertainment already houses 25 staff
Read More »Valve introduces Steam Music
Steam is to introduce a brand new bit of functionality – Steam Music. It’s not a brand new store front selling music, however. Instead the functionality offers users the chance to integrate their music collection into their Steam library. The key here is that gamers will be able to listen …
Read More »Watch Dogs trademark abandonment not instigated by Ubisoft
Delayed open-world title will still release under the same name, publisher insists
Read More »GT Academy India unveiled: All the details here
Nissan today revealed details of GT Academy for India, a programme that turns Gran Turismo players on PS3 into international pro racing drivers. GT Academy is in its sixth year, but the Indian edition will be the first one to also include live events, where participants can enter the competition. …
Read More »The problems with Dungeon Keeper and why in-app purchases aren’t inherently evil
Oscar Clark offers the case for the defence for IAPs and why the issues lie with game design decisions, not the business model itself
Read More »Nintendo could merge handhelds and home consoles into single machine, Iwata admits
A single system combining both home and handheld consoles could be the future of Nintendo’s hardware business. That’s according to president Saturo Iwata. Although the exec admits that he’s not personally convinced by the idea, he does say in an investor Q&A that the company could pursue such a strategy …
Read More »Miyamoto: Nintendo has ‘overcome the challenge’ of first party game shortages
Nintendo IS releasing enough first party games to propel its platforms forward. That’s the message from senior MD Shigeru Miyamoto, who when accused of releasing insufficient titles to support Wii U told investors: I interpret the question as asking whether we are making the same mistake every time we launch …
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