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In a second snippet from the IGN interview with Nintendo development boss and all-round gaming superstar Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of gaming icon Mario had some interesting comments regarding Microsoft’s recently announced avatar system : I don’t really use the term avatar to refer to what we’ve done with the …
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Read More »E3 08: Nintendo explains Zelda and Mario confirmation
Were new Mario and Zelda titles for Wii confirmed at E3? It seemed so when Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told an excited E3 audience that our internal teams that make Mario and Zelda are both hard at work, and will bring new titles to Wii”. But talk soon turned to …
Read More »E3 08: Dead Rising on Wii shuffles into view
We know that Dead Rising 2 is in development, and if talk is to be believed , it may even be in development at a Western studio, but the E3 attention has turned to the apparent confirmation from Japanese games bible Famitsu that a port of the first title is …
Read More »E3 08: Nintendo hits out at rivals imitations
Nintendo has stated at its E3 Media Briefing that the success of Wii and DS has led to ‘imitators’ trying to re-create the features that have made Nintendo’s platforms the market leaders. Both Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and US boss Reggie Fils-Aime took a swipe at companies that the platform …
Read More »E3 08: Wii Sports 2 confirmed
Nintendo has announced its long-awaited sequel to its popular Wii Sports, dubbed Wii Sports Resort. The game will come bundled with the recently announced WiiMotion Plus plug-in that attaches to the Wii Remote, providing precise 1:1 movement mapping. The title was demonstrated at Nintendo’s E3 conference in LA this morning, …
Read More »E3 08: Animal Crossing Wii confirmed
Nintendo has confirmed that the Wii version of it popular life-sim game called Animal Crossing: City Folk is on the way, and will take advantage of the company’s existing internet network. Gamers will be able to visit friends’ towns, as well as exchange gifts and messages. It will also be …
Read More »E3 08: New Mario and Zelda titles confirmed for Wii
Though nothing has been said as of yet at Nintendo’s press conference (which at the time of writing is only 20 minutes in), Nintendo’s global president Satoru Iwata has confirmed that his Zelda and Mario teams are hard at work on new titles. Addressing the E3 audience, he said: Our …
Read More »E3 08: Rock Revolution slips to 2009
With Guitar Hero IV and Rock Band 2 very much leading this year’s Christmas charge, Konami has announced that its own peripheral-based music game, Rock Revolution, will now be released in the first quarter of 2009. Rock Revolution, which is being developed bu UK studio Zoe Mode, is primarily a …
Read More »Wiimote gets 1:1 sensing accuracy via new official add-on
E3 08: Nintendo's Wii MotionPlus to offer more accurate mapping of movements in 3D space
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