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Majora’s Mask was my shit.” MOVIE STAR Robin Williams named his daughter after Princess Zelda. Instead of simply divorcing her father and changing her name, Zelda Williams embraced the name and the series and is now helping Nintendo promote the franchise via TV ads – and the Zelda Symphony Concert …
Read More »Where’s cheapest? Halo: Anniversary and Assassin’s Creed cut to £4.99
This week is a huge five days for big releases, and GAME is hoping to grab as much market share as possible with a raft of great offers. Tomorrow sees the release of two huge games – Microsoft’s Halo Combat Evovled: Anniversary Edition and Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, and GAME …
Read More »Microsoft exec: Cloud tech coming to Xbox
Company talks up OnLive and Gaikai
Read More »Online play for Street Fighter II on Virtual Console
The Virtual Console version of Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers will offer online multiplayer over Nintendo’s network. It’s a surprise addition to the game, but certainly a welcome one – particularly when you consider how unwilling many publishers have been to rework any of the elements in their …
Read More »Interview: Where is My Heart?
We speak to Bernhard Schulenburg about his delightful indie game
Read More »UK CHARTS: MW3 is No.1; Biggest UK week ever; Falls short of Black Ops
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has assumed its pre-determined position at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It helped the UK games sector to its biggest weekly return ever, making 120.8m, beating previous record holder Week 45 in 2010. MW3 revenue for the …
Read More »Saints Row: The Third uses Online Pass
Upcoming THQ title Saints Row: The Third will implement the complete digital arsenal current available to modern publishers. Joystiq has confirmed that the game will include an Online Pass needed to access the game’s multiplayer features. As always, those who buy the game second-hand will have to fork out an …
Read More »New Xbox seemingly ruled out for 2012
It very much looks as if a successor to the Xbox 360 will now not be launched in 2012. Why? Because we now know that Halo will definitely be an Xbox 360 title and not, as some had speculated, a launch title for the next machine. Confirmation came from Frank …
Read More »3DS on track to better DS sales
Nintendo has released NPD sales numbers for the 3DS which suggest it could exceed the year one unit sales numbers of the 3DS. 3DS has sold 1.65m units in the US in the eight months since its March launch. In its first 12 months, the DS shifted 2.37m machines, with …
Read More »US market grows – but not by much
The US video games market managed to grow year-on-year in October, but by a far smaller margin that some analysts had predicted. The overall market grew one per cent to $1.08bn, with software climbing three per cent ($621.3m) and hardware six per cent ($295.6). Accessories fell five per cent to …
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