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Nintendo of America has outlined its release plans for the next six months in North America, and amongst the named titles are a number of big-hitting games. First-party highlights from the Wii release schedule include current European release Endless Ocean on Jan 21st, Super Smash Bros Brawl on March 9th, …

There are 12 weeks until the trade event of the year. The 2008 MCV Industry Excellence Awards will take place on Thursday April 10th. By popular demand, they will once again be held at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London – with 17 awards up for grabs. MCV online and in …

Entertainment retail giant HMV has released a trading update for the five weeks ended January 5th 2008, which show considerable progress in the company’s three-year turnarond plan. Group total were sales up 9.9 per cent, and like-for-like growth stood at 9.4 per cent. HMV UK and Ireland total were sales …

Game developer Goichi Suda, the man behind GameCube and PS2 cult classic Killer 7 and upcoming Wii curiosity No More Heroes, has said that Nintendo are the only company making any money out of the Wii. Upon its release in Japan, No More Heroes generated quite a lot of attention …

A technology that enables a single game binary to run across a huge range of phones, from high-end to entry level, regardless of hardware or operating system. Sound too good to be true? We caught up with Antix's Francis Charig to discover what's really behind the Antix Game Player...

WiiWare, Wii Fit and Wii Menu to go under the conference microscope

Media giant and owner of CNN supporting game design competition

Whilst European Wii owners are still waiting to hear when Nintendo’s highly anticipated multiplayer thump-a-thon will arrive on these fair shores, US owners are facing a further delay. Having originally been lined up for an early February release, US gamers can now expect the game to be released on March …

One of Nintendo’s biggest cash-cows is to return to DS with a brad new instalment in March when Pokemon Ranger Batonnage arrives in Japan, IGN reports. A follow up to last year’s Pokemon Ranger, Batonnage will once again allow players to control a Ranger who captures those troublesome Pokemon by …

Over 80 per cent of UK employees – particularly those involved in retail – have been victims of bullying at work, according to a new survey by The Samaritans. The report, entitled Stressed Out, also found over half of retail employees say their jobs are getting more stressful and that …