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As the industry continues to struggle with the death of the established hardware cycle that has defined the games industry for over two decades, THQ boss Brian Farrell has predicted that two of the current three home consoles will receive a price cut in the next nine months. Speaking to …
Read More »Wii could do damage with Gaikai
David Perry has revealed he is eager to see the cloud-computing service Gaikai available on consoles, and thinks Nintendo would benefit from the service in particular. In a Develop Blog Post – which looks at the genesis of the Gaikai model – the Perry explained, What I would love to …
Read More »Ghostbusters gets multiformat release date
Namco Bandai Partners has announced that Ghostbusters will arrive in Europe on October 26th for Xbox 360, DS, PC and Wii. The titles were originally scheduled for release in June, before Sony secured publishing rights for the PlayStation games – forcing the other SKUs to get pushed back. Ghostbusters was …
Read More »UK CHART: Wii Sports Resort hits No.1
Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort has hit top spot in the ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 in its debut week. The title, which comes bundled with the Wii MotionPlus accessory, clocks up the fourth-highest week one sales for a Wii game, behind Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii and Mario & Sonic …
Read More »Disney doing Alice in Wonderland game
Disney Interactive is publishing a game based on the classic Louis Carroll book Alice in Wonderland. The game is to be released as a tie-in to the Walt Disney Pictures’ film of the same name, which stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska, and is directed …
Read More »November arrival for NFS Nitro
The second prong in EA’s three-tiered reinvention of its massively popular Need for Speed series has been given a firm release date in the UK and US. Need for Speed: Nitro, the Wii and DS versions of the racing series, will be released in the UK on November 20th. The …
Read More »New Super Monkey Ball announced
Sega has lifted the lid on a brand new instalment to its popular Monkey Ball franchise – brand new Wii title Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll. More or less nothing is known of the game as of yet, though the publisher promises fresh information the coming weeks. We do …
Read More »US: 2009 releases fail to perform on Wii
Almost all 2009 releases on Wii have been outsold in the States by games launched in previous years, with only EA Sports Active standing tall. The latest NPD data, analysed by Gamasutra, shows that EA’s new fitness game is the only title in the top five best-selling Wii games of …
Read More »Aguilera suffers Wii Sports injury
Mirroring the incident that saw a staff writer inflict pain upon a colleague when Nintendo’s Wii first arrived at the Intent office, American pop star Christina Aguilera has reportedly suffered an injury whilst playing popular multiplayer romp Wii Sports. GameDaily reports that a source stated: Christina loves her Wii as …
Read More »Nintendo to take over Time Square
The usual expanses of concrete, bright lights and yellow cabs will make way for sandy beaches, swimming pools and tropical plants next week when Nintendo stages a very high-profile takeover of New York’s Time Square to promote the release of Wii Sport Resort. Based on Military Island, the installation will …
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