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$99.99. It’s the magic price that all hardware eventually aspires to. And it’s exactly the price the Wii Mini will launch at. And that’s the point of the Wii Mini. Affordable gaming hardware for that ever alluring mass-market. "Yeah, of course it is," Nintendo of Canada’s community director Matt Ryan …
Read More »Tales series hits 15m shipped
Namco Bandai’s popular RPG series Tales has passed the 15m unit shipped milestone. The most recent release Tales of Xillia 2 on PS3 has itself shipped 480,000 units since its Japanese release at the beginning of December. The IP first debuted way back in 1995 when Tales of Phantasia was …
Read More »Asda eyes digital games move as traffic grows
Supermarket giant Asda is weighing up its options in the digital games space. Asda Direct trading director Frazer Locke has told MCV that digital is the one thing lacking from its new online entertainment offer, which it launched last year. And it is looking at a whole range of options. …
Read More »Video games will benefit from John Lewis store drive
John Lewis wants to open 21 more stores, and that could be good news for the games industry. The department store’s brand director Peter Ruis said at a retail summit last week: We need new shops, we don’t have enough. We’re not in the places we need to be.We need …
Read More »HMV sells MAMA Group for £7.3m
HMV Group has confirmed the sale of MAMA Group Limited and its subsidiaries – plus its separately held interest in 50 per cent of Mean Fiddler Group Limited – to Juno Newco Ltd. The buyer is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Development Capital Limited. Interestingly, Juno Newco Ltd has …
Read More »The Walking Dead retail release arrives next week
The first full season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead is set to land at retail in North America next week for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Originally targeted for the shelves today, the retail launch ended up slipping back a week to December 11th. The bundle has been priced at …
Read More »Play and vote: Square Enix Game Development Contest India finalists
After months of preparation and submissions, Square Enix has picked four finalists for its Game Development Contest India 2012, and all four games are now available for everyone to play and vote. The four finalists are – Cloud Shepherd, an iPad puzzle game by Team Riverside (a group of Students …
Read More »Amazon offers Nintendo Land download codes after "supplier error"
Retailer Amazon has apologised to customers who found that their copies of Nintendo land were missing from their Premium Wii U bundles. Videogamer reports that Amazon has blamed supplier error” for the gaffe and that only a small number” of customers were affected. It won’t, however, be replacing the game …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Publishers must ‘Follow Friday’
Top retail bosses have urged publishers to stick with Friday releases, despite growing demand for more global game launches. This year, 18 games have been released outside of the usual Friday slot to mirror US activity, where titles tend to launch on Tuesdays. These include Just Dance 4, Resident Evil …
Read More »Supermarkets adopt new special offer code
Leading UK supermarkets have backed new guidelines designed to make sure consumers are not misled by special offers. Eight grocers have signed up to a new voluntary code laid out by the Office of Fair Trading, according to The Independent. The OFT launched an inquiry in February to investigate if …
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