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The UK High Street is this morning ‘digesting’ the news that the Wii trade cost is set to rise, and hasn’t ruled out an increase in the console’s street price. The trade price for Nintendo Wii is set to increase by around 16.50 (approximately 19 including VAT) due to the …

Nintendo has dated the next games in its New Play Control! series for Wii. Strategy action title, Pikmin 2 is set to crawl onto retail shelves on April 24th, while Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat is scheduled to arrive at an unspecified point in the summer. The New Play Control! series …

Jon Jordan has a look at the progress on lighting tool modo 401, as developer Luxology slowly reveals more information on the new technology.

Cumulative sales of Nintendo’s original DS, DS Lite and DSi have now passed the 100m units sales mark globally, the platform holder has confirmed. In addition, Nintendo claims that a massive 83 DS software titles have now exceeded 1m unit sales, and an additional seven titles have each sold in …

Creative Assembly's Antipodean operation talks console RTSs with Develop

505 Games’ Diva Girls will bring ‘Girl Power’ to a new generation. But which girl band used the phrase in the ‘90s? Answer correctly and win a copy of each game in the range. A. The Spice Girls B. The Sugar Girls C. Boyzone Email your answers to divagirls@intentmedia.co.uk

With Xbox 360 RTS Stormrise due this month, we spoke to the gameâ??s developer Creative Assembly Australia about the challenge of establishing the genre on console, the local industry and the battle Down Under for tax breaks.

New tiered structure allows even two-man teams to join developer organisation

Catalogue retail specialist Argos has posted sales figures above what most were expecting, stating that whilst the year ahead will be tough it expects to maintain a strong position on the High Street. For the eight weeks until the end of 2008, Argos saw like-for-like sales decline 1.6 per cent. …

It has been confirmed that Monster Hunter G will require users to pay an additional fee if they want to play it online – a first for Nintendo’s Wii console. Siliconera reports that the game, which is not currently scheduled for release outside of Japan, will come with a free …