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Mario and Luigi-branded Wii Remote Plus controllers will launch next month in North America. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced the pair during the latestNintendo Direct event yesterday, stating they’ll arrive in their suited colors of red and green. No word on whether the peripherals will make their way out to …

Games-centric TV platform Ginx has acquired Player Channel. The moves means that as of 6:00am this morning Ginx is now available to an estimated 13m French homes and a further 3.5m in Germany. The company will also expand its advertising operations to provide for specific ad opportunities for UK, French …

A real-life F1 car will be the star attraction at the official F1 2013 launch event at HMV Oxford Street this Friday (October 4th). Kicking off at 11am, attendees will have the chance to try their hand at a real F1 tyre change like you see dem dere folks on …

Activision is to release two Transformers game bundles this Q4. The first, for Nintendo Wii, is called the Transformers: Ultimate Battle Edition while the second, due out on DS, is called the Transformers: Ultimate Autobots Edition. The Wii release contains two games – Transformers: Cybertron Adventures (based on the War …

Valve has become used to suceeding at pretty much every endeavour it undertakes. From trading cards to Steam workshop to Big Picture, we’ve lapped up everything they’ve thrown at us. Over the past month, however, Valve made three announcements regarding its move into the realm of game consoles – the …

Leading game development industry website moves to next level with online revamp

Oh dear. Problems accessing the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto Online were always to be expected. But fresh reports suggest an altogether more troubling issue is materialising. Some users are claiming that not only are they unable to access the game’s new online functions, but that doing so is corrupting …

The days of Apple making a mint from its proprietary iPhone charging cables could be over. Macworld reports that members of the European Parliament’s internal market committee have voted unanimously for a law that would mandate the use of universal mobile phone chargers. The idea is to cut down on …

An ‘elite gaming PC’ is heading to market from graphics card specialist Nvidia. The SKU contains two Nvidia GTX 780 GPUs working together in SLI as well as an Intel Haswell CPU. Nvidia is selling the device as being 4K-friendly, meaning support for resolutions of up to 3840×2160. It will …

Nintendo’s most successful ever home console is nearing the end of its life. Kotaku spotted an addition made to the Wii page on Nintendo Japan’s website which claims that manufacturing is scheduled to end soon”. If correct, it would mean that while Wii’s life was certainly bright it was also …