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On the eve of the release of Resident Evil 5, Capcom has unveiled three new Resident Evil titles for Nintendo Wii. The first game on the schedule is Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, a sequel to Capcom’s hit on-rails Wii blaster, The Umbrella Chronicles. The game focuses on Capcom’s 1998 …
Read More »Retail ponders Wii street price rise
The UK High Street is this morning ‘digesting’ the news that the Wii trade cost is set to rise, and hasn’t ruled out an increase in the console’s street price. The trade price for Nintendo Wii is set to increase by around 16.50 (approximately 19 including VAT) due to the …
Read More »Pikmin 2 and Jungle Beat dated
Nintendo has dated the next games in its New Play Control! series for Wii. Strategy action title, Pikmin 2 is set to crawl onto retail shelves on April 24th, while Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat is scheduled to arrive at an unspecified point in the summer. The New Play Control! series …
Read More »JAPAN: Monster Hunter G to have subscription fees
It has been confirmed that Monster Hunter G will require users to pay an additional fee if they want to play it online – a first for Nintendo’s Wii console. Siliconera reports that the game, which is not currently scheduled for release outside of Japan, will come with a free …
Read More »Nintendo powerless to up Wii street price
Wii platform holder Nintendo has told MCV that it is powerless to up the street price of the Nintendo Wii – adding to the concerns of many of the nation’s indies. MCV today exclusively revealed that Nintendo is to up the trade price of the Nintendo Wii by around 19, …
Read More »Wii price set to rise in the UK
Nintendo has confirmed to MCV that it is to increase the trade price of its Wii console for UK retailers, a move that could lead to the console’s price rising on the UK High Street. However, retail will decide whether the machine’s current 179.99 price point sticks, or whether consumers …
Read More »360 claims half of all online console gaming
Online console gaming now accounts for a quarter of all online playtime, according to a new report from North American stats body NPD – and the Xbox 360 is grabbing the biggest piece of the console pie. The report, entitled Online Gaming 2009, shows that 25 per cent of all …
Read More »Kotick: "We’ll do better on Wii"
Bobby Kotick, the chief executive of Activision Blizzard, has admitted that his firm used to see Wii as a secondary platform compared to its publishing activities on Xbox 360 and PS3 – but that’s all about to change. Click here to read the full story on CasualGaming.biz.
Read More »The official UK games charts
RETAIL BIZ: The official ELSPA/gfK-ChartTrack charts are in – but it’s not all about the All Formats list. By visiting MCV’s official single format charts each week, you can keep fully up-to-date with what’s going on at UK tills. Killzone 2 dominates PS3’s list this week and Microsoft’s Halo Wars …
Read More »Capcom: We used Xbox 360 to break into Western markets
Keiji Inafune, the head of research and development at Japanese publisher Capcom, has stated that the firm decided to opt for platform and timed Xbox 360 exclusives on some of its earlier releases this generation because it believed it was the best way into the Western market. I think I …
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