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Nintendo is set to take its DS and Wii software on a tour of the UK as it looks to ramp up its marketing for the fourth quarter. Going under the names The Nintendo DS Christmas Tour ’08 and The Wii Christmas Tour ’08, gamers are being invited to ‘discover …

LittleBigPlanet isn’t even in stores yet – and yet developer Media Molecule has already announced plans for a sequel. Speaking to the BBC on being a British success story, the firm also revealed that it is in negotiations with Sony to expand the franchise to have its own cartoon and …

Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has revealed that the company is producing 2.4 million new Wiis every month – a 33 per cent increase on last year’s frequency. Speaking in an interview with the LA Times, Fils-Aime called the production cycle ‘unprecedented’. Nintendo has continually raised the production levels …

SCi Entertainment has announced that it has waived its ‘standstill’ agreement with Warner Bros until December 1st – meaning that the entertainment media giant can increase its share count to 30 per cent without consultation. According to SCi: ‘[The deal] restricts the ability of Warner Bros and its affiliates to …

Xbox Live boss John Schappert has told MCV that Xbox Live’s role as an ‘online retailer’ is taking the pressure off the battle for High Street shelf space. Speaking in the build-up to the ‘revolutionary’ Xbox Live Dashboard update next month, Schappert said: There are games coming that would not …

We’ve heard stories of publisher execs threatened with the sack if a certain game doesn’t make the top three. And the amount of marketing cash sloshing around the industry currently is absolutely mind-boggling. Girls Aloud, Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby combined might sound like an adolescent onanist’s fantasy, but for …

Why is something that’s effectively a software update being treated as so important by Microsoft? My feeling is that this is our most important day since we launched the Xbox 360. It truly does reinvent the machine. It’s our goal to turn it from a pure games machine to a …

Rein brushes off latest gossip that Unreal Engine is being bought film financier Legendary

Ahead of London Games Festival 2008, which starts this Saturday (October 26th), the event organisers have told MCV that they want to involve all of Europe. Our long-term aim is to take it beyond the borders and make it one of the key highlights across the whole of Europe,” LGF …

Molyneux tells us that making Fable 2 re-taught him game design and calmed his 'creative whirlwind' approach