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The release of the first colour variant always marks a significant point in a console’s lifecycle, so considering the Wii’s slowing sales in Japan news of a new look for the machine is hardly surprising. Kotaku has pictures of a new black Wii variant, which will be released on August …

Pure developer provides frank retrospective on life after independence

The unfortunate job-cutting spree in the games industry seems to be continuing today with news that EA studio Black Box has, after weeks of speculation , lost 200 members of its staff. MCV’s development-orientated sister-site Developmag.com has the full story – click here to head over there.

EA-owned developer of Need for Speed and Skate 2 sees over half its headcount let go

EA’s previously revealed cost-cutting measures continue to take effect, with Canadian studio Black Box and Florida-based team Tiburon apparently the latest to see job cuts. Click here to visit Developmag.com for the complete story .

Various sources across the industry are speculating that EA’s Black Box studio in Canada may soon be closed. Speculation from unnamed sources also suggests that because of the less than favourable nature of reviews of Need For Speed: Undercover, which also suffered relatively poor sales compared to previous iterations of …

Speculation about studioâ??s closure rife in the wake of EAâ??s job cuts

Economic downturn and slow holiday sales in the US and Europe to blame

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed that sales of his firm’s Wii console this Black Friday were double that enjoyed by the machine in the same period in 2007. Though he was not exact about the timeframe, he did state that the sales were measured over a week-long period that …

Nintendo’s Wii has managed to trump all contenders in the annual eBay Black Friday race by becoming the most searched for product across all categories on the US arm of the popular online auction site. To see all the stats, including the average Wii sales price and a look at …