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The Monster Hunter success story continues in Japan with the news that Capcom’s latest title in the series, and the first to be released on Wii, sold 520,000 copies on its first day of release, according to figures from Media Create. And bigger news could be on the way, too, …
Read More »Tony Hawk RIDE to cost £100
Publisher Activision has announced that Tony Hawk RIDE, complete with skateboard, will be released on November 20th for Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 3. The firm has also announced a special limited edition of the game will be available via retailer GAME. This version features a unique red and black …
Read More »Modern Warfare aims for Wii
Activision Blizzard has followed up the recent news of a DS version of military shooter Modern Warfare with news of a port of the 2007 original destined for Nintendo’s Wii. Treyarch, the studio behind Call of Duty 3 and the recent Call of Duty: World at War, is said to …
Read More »EA Sports Active sees Wii shine
Proving that third parties can still succeed on Nintendo platforms, EA has revealed that its EA Sports Active has to date sold 1.8m copies worldwide. Its success has not only validated EA’s earlier statement of intent to increase its focus on Nintendo’s home platform but also propelled the company to …
Read More »Monster Hunter Tri heading West
Publisher Capcom has announced that Japanese mega hit Monster Hunter Tri will be released in the UK and Europe early next year. Tri marks the series’ first foray onto Wii and Capcom hopes that the combination of one of its key IPs and the hugely popular Wii will result in …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Wii Sports Resort sits tight
There’s no budging Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort from the top of the ESLPA GfK-ChartTrack this week, with the popular mini-game collection holding firm at the top for the second week on the trot. Its strongest contender, fellow Nintendo title Wii Fit, can’t quite reclaim the top spot, though strong sales …
Read More »Miyamoto questions digital distribution
Nintendo’s boss of development and games industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto has questioned the belief that a digital-only future for games retail is inevitable. The thing for us is we really don’t see the future of video games being merely confined to digital distribution or moving solely or even to a …
Read More »‘iPhone more powerful than Wii’
An interface developer at UK dev Telltale Games has publicly claimed he believes the iPhone to be more powerful than Nintendo’s Wii. A developer on the official TellTale forums claims that the Wii and DS are extremely underpowered and their popularity doesn’t remove the hardware limitations." Develop has the full …
Read More »‘iPhone is much more powerful than a Wii’
Alleged Telltale Games staff member opens extraordinary criticisms on forum
Read More »Nintendo Q1 profits tumble 61%
Nintendo has become the latest video games company to suffer significant year-on-year declines, with net profits down 60.6 per cent in Q1 2009-2010 to YEN 42 billion, compared to YEN 107 billion in the same period a year before. The firm this morning reported operating profits of YEN 40bn for …
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