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A single, solitary and most likely lonely person has led to the banning of a Nintendo Wii U TV ad. The ASA bizarrely chose to uphold the complaint that drew issue with the depiction of how the console switches from TV gameplay to GamePad gameplay as the short did not …
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The Wii U Gamepad can apparently do 3D
Nintendo’s Wii U Gamepad apparently has a significant bit of added functionality that we’ve not heard about – it can display in 3D. Oddly, though, we’re not talking 3DS-style glasses-free 3D. Instead, IMGMR reports that green and magenta glasses from Inficolor are need to take advantage of the experience. It …
Read More »Trine 2 maker: Wii U eShop puts pricing in devs’ hands
Developer praises Nintendoâ??s 'indie-friendly' estore
Read More »Getting to grips with UI
Develop discovers whatâ??s next for the future of user interface design and development
Read More »INTERVIEW: Wii are talking to U
MCV talks to Nintendo’s new UK marketing director Shelly Pearce… We have always been listening, but maybe people weren’t aware.” If there’s one person that knows the conventional wisdom of ‘Nintendo doesn’t get the internet’ isn’t quite true, it’s Shelly Pearce. The 14 year veteran of Nintendo – a decade …
Read More »Cloud Control – Square Enix’s Wada and Rogers talk digital gaming
To run any business or team properly, you have to have enormous self-belief that your strategy and vision is the right one. Square Enix president and CEO Yoichi Wada doesn’t just have self-belief, he has one of the most surprising views on the future of the games market. The man …
Read More »OPINION: The Gamestation gamble
From the moment there ceased to be a GAME and Gamestation store in every major town, Game Retail Group must have known a unification of its brands was inevitable. The whole point of running both brands in parallel was to appeal to the ever-broadening games market across the country. In …
Read More »REVIEW: Steam’s Big Picture shows Valve sees the big picture for retail
There’s not much innovation in Steam’s new Big Picture mode. But there are plenty of elegant answers here to questions few are asking about the future of selling games. A lot had already been written about Big Picture mode yesterday before it even went live in beta late last night. …
Read More »Kickstarting Ouya – Was it right?
We talk to the people behind the hackable console and ask why they've taken to crowdfunding
Read More »ANALYSIS: Xbox Smartglass
In hindsight, SmartGlass was Microsoft’s most significant announcement at E3 this year. Buried between key core games and gut-rumbling gunfire demos, and itself presented with too-cheesy catchphrases, SmartGlass at the time felt like the now typical ‘non-games moment’ during the Xbox presentation. Yet in the wake of further announcements the …
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