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Nintendo is expecting the nation’s post-Christmas health push to drive sales of Wii Fit in January – but has told MCV that there may be stock shortages during the month. The title, which comes with the Wii Balance Board, secured the No. 10 spot in the ChartTrack/ELSPA Christmas top ten …
Read More »Time Warner considering further game industry acquisitions
TT Games acquisition deemed 'wildly successful'
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 »Send us your silliest snaps!
Do you have a pic of your sales director doing the dosey doe with Lara Croft? Was your store manager ever snapped burning his Carmageddon POS stuff? Perhaps your MD had his arms round a man dressed as Croc – with a face that said ‘this is definitely going to …
Read More »Namco Bandai picks up Magna Carta
Korean developer Softmax has announced its Xbox 360 exclusive RPG Magna Carta: Crimson Stigma will be published by Namco Bandai. Crimson Stigma is the sequel to the studio’s 2002 RPG, which proved to be a big hit in Korea and Japan. The company has yet to confirm a release date …
Read More »JAPAN: FFXIII demo to ship with Advent Children
Publisher Square Enix has confirmed that a demo of Final Fantasy XIII will be included with the Blu-ray release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children in Japan. The news first appeared in Japanese gaming bible Famitsu. However, there are currently no plans to run a similar promotion in other territories. …
Read More »Greenberg: 360 pulling away from PS3 in Europe
Microsoft’s group product manager for Xbox 360 Aaron Greenberg has stated that Xbox 360 and PS3 were neck and neck” in sales terms until Microsoft’s aggressive European hardware price cutting lead to a significant sales increase in the region. While we had a pretty large lead – around five million …
Read More »Neversoft moves on from Tony Hawk
Developer to hand long-running skateboarding series to new studio
Read More »Games to eclipse other media
Video games are set to eclipse” all other forms of media entertainment, according to Activision Blizzard’s president and CEO of publishing Mike Griffith. During his keynote speech at CES 2009, Griffith boasted games are prospering as demand for almost every other entertainment category declines, according to the BBC. He claimed …
Read More »Guitar Hero III sales pass $1bn
Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith has claimed that 2007’s Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock has now surpassed a sales value of $1bn – a milestone the exec claims has never before been achieved by a single title, Edge Online reports. Click here to read the full story.
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