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Nintendo reckons two new titles out next month can help keep consumers excited about Mario following the mascot’s 25th anniversary. Mario Sports Mix for Wii and Mario vs Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem are out for Wii and DS respectively on February 4th. Nintendo saw the full range of Mario games …
Read More »Koch helps German publisher reach UK players
A popular German publisher will see a number of its games hit UK shelves via Koch Media. BitComposer’s PC games Wildlife Park 3 and Air Conflicts: Secret Wars (also coming to Kinect) will reach stores later this year. As a franchise Wildlife Park has sold over 500,000 units worldwide since the …
Read More »Activision slashes music game prices
Publisher Activision has dropped the price of both Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and DJ Hero 2 in North America. Joystiq reports that both games have seen between $10 and $20 slashed from their various range of SKUs on the High Street. MCV has asked Activision, but there’s no word …
Read More »PS3 crack leads to game piracy
The first claims of full-scale piracy on the PS3 have surfaced on the internet. The development comes after last week’s serious security breach that lead to the publication of the PS3’s ‘root key’ – a code embedded deep within the console’s architecture that prevents unauthorised code from launching on the …
Read More »Pitchford dismisses Aliens delay talk
Sega shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines is still on track for a release in 2011, the boss of developer Gearbox Software has assured. Yesterday consumer blog Destructoid reported that the game had been delayed once again, with a release now pencilled in for 2012. Its source was gaming forum NeoGAF. However, …
Read More »3DS games won’t dry up, Iwata promises
Gamers can expect regular software releases to be very much the norm with its upcoming 3DS handheld, according to Nintendo president Saturo Iwata. Speaking to a Japanese newspaper, as translated by Andriasang, Iwata made the following pledge: "It’s important that you be able to supply software with no pause. With …
Read More »Sony champions 20-strong PS3 line-up
If the console race is to be decided on the number of triple-A games headed to each console then Sony already has the 2011 hardware title in the bag. Speaking on the US PlayStation blog, the platform holder has named 20 titles that will exclusively be hitting the console in …
Read More »Microsoft creating 4,000 jobs in UK
Microsoft has pledged to create 4,000 new jobs in the UK as part of a major government initiative. The Windows, Xbox and search engine giant is one of 19 organisations taking part in a new Downing Street scheme to boost the private electronics sector. It is not known which areas …
Read More »Minecraft meets Kinect
A compatibility software engineer has managed to port an image taken from Kinect into the PC world-building game Minecraft. Nathan Viniconis explained on his personal blog how developers could utilise depth camera on Kinect and repurpose the data as a full 3D object within Minecraft’s block-built environments. Viniconis’s day job …
Read More »Cataclysm breaks new records
The popularity of Blizzard’s MMO World of Warcraft shows no signs of abating with news that the latest expansion for the title has broken another record in the PC market. The developer has revealed that WoW: Cataclysm sold an amazing 4.7m units worldwide in its first month of release – …
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