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Publisher Sega has announced that Mario and Sonic will unite once again this Christmas on Wii and DS. The announcement has been expected since Sega secured the Vancouver Winter Olympics rights last week, and the game was even confirmed by the Winter Olympics’ director of licensing, Dennis Kim. We are …
Read More »Pokémon Platinum dated for May
Nintendo has announced that Pokmon Platinum is to arrive in Europe on May 22nd. The latest entry in the mega-selling franchise has already taken Japan by storm, becoming the country’s second biggest title of 2008 with 2.4 million copies sold to date, with its first million being sold in the …
Read More »New Mario and Sonic confirmed
Sega will publish a sequel to Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, based on the 2010 Winter Olympics. The title was confirmed to The Province by the Winter Olympics’ director of licensing Dennis Kim, while MCV understands an official announcement will be made later in the week. "Last year, …
Read More »Nintendo plans new £95m R&D centre
Second Kyoto office to focus on software and hardware development
Read More »UK CHARTS: Wii Fit makes it four in a row
Until recently it had never managed more than a week at the top of the charts – but now Nintendo’s Wii Fit is celebrating its fourth successive week at the top of the ELSPA GfK ChartTrack All Formats Top 40. It’s Wii Fit’s eighth week at the top of the …
Read More »Nintendo developing new Touch Generation games in Europe and US
Satoru Iwata details new strategy for local creation of mass-market titles
Read More »Iwata: Something is wrong with the Japanese market
Nintendo boss Saturo Iwata has expressed concern about the state of the Japanese games market, citing the fact that the US market is has now grown ten times its size. Enterbrain revealed earlier this year that the overall Japanese games market shrank in 2008, and MCV recently predicted that the …
Read More »Iwata: Expect a higher price point for DSi
Nintendo chief Satoru Iwata has confirmed that the DSi is still on course to launch in Europe and America in the next six months – but has added that the device will cost more than its predecessor the DS Lite. The DSi is the third iteration of Nintendo’s dual screen …
Read More »Xbox figures high in brand survey
A new report from brands and marketing agency Vitrue claims that Xbox was the fifth most discussed brand on social networking sites in 2008. The company compiled its results by monitoring online conversations across a number of social networking sites, measuring the frequency in which a number of blue-chip” brands …
Read More »Mario Kart worlds biggest seller in 08
Nintendo dominated the list of the world’s biggest selling games of 2008 – with Mario Kart beating out titles such as Wii Fit and GTA IV to become the most popular game of the year. Mario Kart Wii sold a total of 8.94 million units in 2008 according to recent …
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