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Nintendo has released a DS game on the Wii U Virtual Console for the first time. Eurogamer reports that Brain Training is now available to Japanese Wii U owners who have updated their console to the latest firmware. It’s free, too, until June 30th. The two screens of the DS …
Read More »Wii U sales double in Japan as Mario Kart 8 sells 350k
Mario Kart 8 has topped the weekly Japanese charts and boosted sales of the hardware in Nintendo’s home country. It may not have sent Wii U sales rocketing 666 per cent as it did in the UK, but the game’s arrival did double weekly Wii U sales to over 19k …
Read More »Sony to end PSP shipments this year
UPDATE:Yahoo reports that European shipments of the system will end later this year, and that American shipments ended in January. ORIGINAL STORY: Time finally appears to have caught up with Sony’s pioneering PlayStation Portable. Polygon reports that shipments of the device to the Japanese market will be terminated later this …
Read More »Can mobile save Japan’s struggling game industry?
Nick Gibson asks whether mobile firms are repeating the mistakes of past console developers
Read More »Wii U outsells PS4 in Infamous’ first week in Japan
Nintendo’s Wii U has outsold the PlayStation 4 this week in Japan according to sales data provided by Famitsu. The Wii U has been close behind Sony’s consoles for the last few weeks and this week overtook the PS4 by 1,471 units. The bigger surprise was that the change comes …
Read More »Two Xbox One SKUs priced in Japan
Japanese gamers will be able to get their hands on a new Xbox One console for just 232 later this year. The machine will, as confirmed last month, finally arrive in Japan on September 4th nearly 10 months after it debuted in other key markets. Polygon reports that a Kinect-less …
Read More »Dark Souls’ director promoted to From Software president
Staffing changes occurring at the developer-publisher just weeks after its acquisition by media company
Read More »3DS games dominate Japanese Top Ten
Sales of Nintendo’s handheld continue to grow in Japan as the console takes hold of the Top Ten, according to Japanese sales data from Famitsu. Of the Top Ten games for the week ending May 11th, seven are for 3DS. The total number of 3DS consoles sold jumped by 4,000 …
Read More »Bandai Namco has shipped 1.2m copies of Dark Souls II
From Software’s Dark Souls II has seen more than a million copies shipped on Xbox 360 and PS3 in Europe and America. Clearly that doesn’t include the PC game, which came out over a month after the console versions and after the end of the financial year. From data shows …
Read More »New publisher Chorus Worldwide wants to take Western games to the East
Western mobile game devs are being offered a new route into the lucrative Asian digital games market. Chorus Worldwide, founded by Shintaro Kanaoya, helps devs to fully localise their games for markets such as Japan and Korea. Its first two games are Alex Trowers’ Glyph Quest and Beartrap Games’ Sky …
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