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Though traditionally GDC has not been a platform from which big-hitting titles are announced, Nintendo bucked the trend yesterday with its announcement of new DS title The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. The name immediately suggested a title either based on music that’s good to drink to or paranormal trains. …
Read More »DSi Ware is for ‘unique ideas overlooked at retail’
As Develop predicted last week, Nintendo has detailed its strategy for DSi Ware games at its GDC keynote, with Nintendo of America’s Bill Trinen saying "DSi Ware offers digital distribution for unique ideas that would get overlooked on retail stores". He added: "It also offers developers to chance to deliver …
Read More »Nintendo details answer to ‘Wii storage woes’
At GDC today Nintendo finally answered criticism from gamers and developers that the storage capacity of the Wii was too small – by upgrading the console to support high capacity SD cards. The Wii System Menu 4.0 firmware, available to download to consoles today, introduces a new Menu in the …
Read More »Nintendo expands Virtual Console
Nintendo has expanded the Virtual Console on its Nintendo Wii today, adding new arcade services to the platform. Explained Satoru Iwata: "Initailly six classic arcade games will be available in Japan and four in America, Europe and elsewhere. And more and more are coming to the Virutal Console line-up." Space …
Read More »Zelda: Spirit Tracks announced for DSi
The global president of Nintendo Saturo Iwata has headlined his keynote at GDC 09 by lifting the lid on a brand new Zelda game for the DSi entitled The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. "Nintendo is grateful all third parites have done to support our platforms – but we understand …
Read More »Campbell takes USA role to boost MCV and Develop
Longtime Edge Online frontman Colin Campbell has joined Intent Media as head of US content and business development. The highly rated publisher and journalist has over 20 years’ experience within the industry. He ran US trade title Games Business and online pioneer Fastest Games News throughout the 1990s, having played …
Read More »Sony aiming for simultaneous digital PSP releases
The head of PlayStation marketing at Sony America, John Koller, has stated that Sony would ideally like to see simultaneous digital versions of its PSP titles released alongside their retail UMD counterparts. In the back half of this year, we should see a good rise in the amount of content …
Read More »Disney unveils new Wii 3D Toy Story title
A brand new title inspired” by 1995 movie outing Toy Story is on the way to Wii this autumn courtesy of Disney Interactive Entertainment. Interestingly, the game will also support a 3D mode, and comes packed with 3D glasses. Disney is infusing plenty of the third dimension into the Toy …
Read More »Sony dates PS3 MMO duo for 2010
The long-awaited maturing of the MMO genre in the console space will seemingly have to wait a little longer to reach fruition with the news that upcoming SOE pair DC Universe Online and The Agency will not arrive on PS3 until 2010. It had been hoped that at least one …
Read More »EA resurrecting SSX on iPhone
Publisher EA has seemingly nailed its flag to the iPhone mast with the news that a number of its key gaming franchises are heading to the platform this year. Edge reports that snowboarding franchise SSX, the return of which was hinted at in the in-game commentary of 2008 racer Burnout …
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