The official website for the portable DS Guitar Hero game has now been launched, contains images, videos, tracklisting, song samples, all the things you'd expect.
Leading video games publisher and developer Namco Bandai Games America Inc., announced today that Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3 has been shipped to North American retailers for Nintendo DS. Based on the popular virtual pets, help run over a dozen shops with adorable Tamagotchi pals. The Nintendo DS' intuitive touch screen controls add a level of immersion the franchise has never seen.
Like a jacket that’s leopard print on the inside and tweed on the outside, that’s party animal or professorial as the occasion demands, Izuna 2’s box art is reversible. Flip over the game’s box art and gamers will find a pretty little portrait of the game’s pink-haired protagonist, perfect for a bedroom wall or the inside of a locker door. ...
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D3Publisher has confirmed that it will release a DS game based on the Shaun the Sheep TV show before the year is out.
The company, who previously distributed PS3/360 title Dark Sector and Puzzle Quest, will be working closely with Aardman Animation to authentically bring the personality and humour of the series to life.
In the game, the sheep have all escaped and Shaun must find them before the Farmer comes home. He ...
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Nintendo's director of public relations Marc Franklin has said that core gamers should expect great things from the company at E3. "We will be announcing several new titles that core gamers will be interested in around the time of E3," he told GamePro recently. Speculation has run rampant about Nintendo's release schedule near the end of this year. ...
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Sports video games are a huge business -- and for many years, it was an extremely competitive space. I remember a few years back trying to wade through half a dozen different baseball video game titles to figure out which one was worth buying. However, a few years back, video game giant EA started signing "exclusive" deals with a variety of sporting leagues, including the NFL. These "exclusive" deals supposedly meant that only EA could produce games with the names and stats of real players -- a huge selling point among most fans. And, of course, in gaining exclusivity, EA has completely cashed in. However, a bunch of angry video gamers are now suing the company for anticompetitive conduct, noting that these exclusive deals killed off all the competition, allowing EA to drastically raise its prices.
Proving you don't need to make more Star Wars movies to keep the merchandising vehicle moving, Titan Books has confirmed that The Force Unleashed will receive both an official novelisation and comic book adaptation in the next couple of months.
From August 22, Star Wars fans - or anyone, for that matter - will be able to buy a graphic novel or a hardback book chronicling the story of Darth Vader's secret apprentice.
Hopefully, ...
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A large number of Team Ninja employees are reported to have left Tecmo following Itagaki's walkout earlier this month, according to rumours.
It is reported that "as many as three dozen" Team Ninja employees have done a runner and, to make things worse for Tecmo, also plan to take the company to court over unpaid bonuses for completed games.
Things got nasty early this month when Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu ...
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The Fire Emblem series of Strategy Role-Playing Games has been gradually building up a strong following here in the West following years of Japanese-only releases in the past. Now, though, Intelligent Systems and Nintendo are working hard to bring back the very first game in the franchise, one that has never been released in English before. This time the game will be revitalised on the Nintendo DS and appears to even have online content!
Yes, folks – it's that special time of year again. The 26th annual Golden Joysticks game awards are almost upon us, and the shortlist of games that will be put forward for the final vote is about to be announced. It's time to have your say - and you could win some cool prizes too ...
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