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As part of its NPD stat-fest last night, platform holder Microsoft has confirmed two notable sales victories for its motion sensing camera peripheral Kinect. Speaking on Twitter, chief of staff for Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business Aaron Greenberg confirmed that both Rare-developer Kinect Sports and Harmonix made dance game Dance Central …
Read More »Gaming infiltrates UK gyms
Publishers and other games firms can now target fitness fans directly with advertisements in gyms across the UK. Boomerang Media says it reaches almost 900,000 individuals in over 250 health clubs – including Fitness First and Virgin Active – which can be targeted by location or chain. Adverts can be …
Read More »More 3DS games dated
Following confirmation earlier this week that eight games will launch alongside the 3DS in Japan on February 26th, Nintendo has now dated a further 16 games that will be out in the month that follows. As reported by Andriasang, seven games have been given definitive release dates: March 11th: Super …
Read More »Games EIC role for Future’s Clark
Future has announced a reshuffle of its games team that sees current editor-in-chief of Official PlayStation Magazine Tim Clarke become editor-in-chief of the company’s entire games portfolio. In addition, current head of Edge International and PC Gamer James Binns will widen his role to include CVG.co.uk, GamesRadar.com and the websites …
Read More »3DS games region locked?
Software for the Nintendo 3DS will be region locked in much the same way as DVDs, consumer blog VG247 is reporting. In recent years the portable market has been free of region coding, with software for both the DS and PSP being (on the whole) universally compatible across all territories. …
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 »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 »PS Phone gameplay footage appears
The first video footage of games being played on Sony Ericsson’s still unannounced PlayStation Xperia smartphone have been posted online. As spotted by The Sixth Axis, the film shows the unit booting ROMS of PSOne titles Biohazard 2 (the Japanese name for Resident Evil 2) and Rage Racer (Ridge Racer …
Read More »Eight games named for 3DS launch
Nintendo has confirmed that eight titles will launch with the 3DS in Japan on February 26th. Only one of these, Nintendogs+Cats, is a first party title with the others coming from third party publishers – Super Street Fighter IV 3D, Winning Eleven, Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle (which …
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