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Develop Harmonix has called time on the Wii arm of the Rock Band Network. From tomorrow, no new content will be released on the service. RBN allowed users to create their own tracks for use in the game. Harmonix had until now been manually converting tracks uploaded by Xbox 360 …

Economic weakness, a change to the traditional hardware cycle, the growth of digital – there are plenty of things we can point the finger at when trying to assess the declines seen in all of the major games markets last year. But Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has footed responsibility …

Gaming stalwart Nintendo is this morning rightly singing loudly about its transformation in this generation of machines, heralding its unprecedented success in the US market. The DS and Wii have been confirmed as the best selling consoles of 2010 in the US with sales of 8.5m and 7m respectively. These …

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 …

Ubisoft says expanding to the children’s market was a logical move for its best-selling dance games. The publisher wants to capture this demographic with the release of Dance Juniors for Wii next month. The game was previously released in the US as Just Dance Kids, but Ubisoft’s UK team has …

Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton believes rival firms Sony and Microsoft are as equally important in promoting the industry to the next generation of game development hopefuls. Speaking at the Learning Without Frontiers event today, Yarnton set aside old rivalries to say the arrival of both Sony and Microsoft in …

Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has predicted that Wii emerged as the best selling home console of December in the US. Overall he reckons Nintendo’s machine sold 2.6m units. Just behind it, he foresees Xbox 360 sales of 2.5m units – more than double his predicted PS3 sales of 1.2m …

Having enjoyed a very strong Christmas, Ubisoft’s Michael Jackson: The Experience has now sold over 2m units across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. There’s more to come from the game too, with a Japanese release incoming and an April release for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions …

Christmas may be over, but Nintendo just keeps on giving, with three copies of both Mario Sports Mix on Wii and Mario Vs Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem on DS up for grabs. To be in with a chance of winning, just answer the following question: Which of the following sports …

Studio blames itself for â??overestimating chancesâ?? of lifting size cap