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The Wii dominated the top-selling list of Amazon’s video game category, accounting for nine of the Top 10 items. Nintendo hardware outsold software across all formats in 2009, with the US version of the online retailer’s site listing the standard Wii SKU as the bestselling item of the year. The …
Read More »Sega backs away from mature Wii projects
Change of pace after mixed sales for MadWorld and The Conduit
Read More »Wii-wheel bundle set for Sega All-Stars Racing
Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing on Wii comes with an exclusive steering wheel peripheral. The accessory is already available from certain online retailers, including ShopTo, and features the game’s branding. Meanwhile, the publisher has announced that the Xbox 360 edition of Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing will feature exclusive in-game …
Read More »We Sing on celebrity Christmas gift lists
Several A-list celebrities will be getting an extra Christmas present this year, courtesy of Nordic Games. The fledgling publisher has teamed up with Premier PR’s celebrity seeding department to continue promoting its popular Wii karaoke title We Sing. Copies have already been sent to Kylie Minogue, Katie Price, Leona Lewis …
Read More »Sony: Natal cant match PS3 wand
Ahead of the year that will see all three platform holders take to the motion-control battleground, Sony America’s head of PlayStation marketing John Koller has boldly predicted that neither Nintendo’s existing Wii or Microsoft’s upcoming Natal will be able to match Sony’s ambitions in the merging tech space. Quite honestly, …
Read More »JAPAN: PS3 passes 4m sales
Numbers from Enterbrain, the publisher of weekly games magazine Famitsu, show that Sony’s PS3 has now sold over 4m units in Japan. The same stats show that Nintendo’s Wii has now also passed the 9m total sales mark since its release in 2006. The PS3’s performance is all the more …
Read More »US: Valentine WiiMotes revealed
Nintendo has announced that it will launch blue and pink, or his ‘n’ hers, coloured Wii motes in North America on February 14th – which for those of you who haven’t twigged, is Valentines day. The iconology of the clear plastic sheath that houses each device is probably not deliberate, …
Read More »Playfish talks of â??exploring new platformsâ??
As Sony and Microsoft look to integrate free-to-play MMOs, will Playfish set the pace?
Read More »Core Wii audience â??difficult to develop forâ??
Silent Hill Shattered Memories studio Climax wary of the Wii demographic
Read More »EA urges Wii price drop
He’s at it again – seemingly miffed by being out of the headlines for the best part of 12 hours, EA boss John Riccitiello has openly encouraged Nintendo to slash yet more from the Wii’s RRP as he believes doing so will allow it to tap into the PS2’s still …
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