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Nov 19, 2007

Nintendo urges third parties to "make something...

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Nov 19, 2007 With Wii continuing to do incredibly well, third parties are jumping on board faster than we can keep track of, but Nintendo wants devs to "take time" on their creations instead of rushing out quick cash-ins. Speaking on the topic of Wii's healthy third party support, Nintendo of America's George Harrison says: "Certainly there's a strong line-up of third party titles, and we're trying to encourage them to make them. "But, we're also trying to encourage third parties to take the ... » Read More

Nov 19, 2007

How the Wii has changed gaming, one year later

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Nov 19th, 2007 While most celebrating their first birthday have achieved very little during the preceding year bar the production of a variety of venomous smells and a lot of drooling, the Wii has had a pretty eventful time. With its radically new approach to control input (not to mention controversial attitude towards the console industrys traditional generational horsepower boost), it was clear from the start that the machine was going to be death or glory for the then-struggling Nintendo. ... » Read More

Nov 16, 2007

Trailer Trash

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Nov 16, 2007 Ghostbusters News Watch the 17 seconds that set the internets on fire. The Ghostbusters game has been the subject of rumor-mongering for years, and we finally have concrete proof that they've, well, designed a logo. It's great news, for sure, but totally underwhelming as a piece of promotional media. Here's to hoping that the next one will actually show a pixel or two of something that's actually in the ... » Read More

Nov 16, 2007

The Video Zone

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Nov 16, 2007 All hail the Internetz! Procrastination has never been so optimized. These cinematic oddballs are the fruits of our Sunday drive out on Al Gore's Info-super-highway. Some are "teh r0x0rz," some are "teh sux0rz," while most fall somewhere into "teh medi0crez." But you can rest assured that when GamesRadar showcases the work of YouTube nutcases, it's certifiably "r0x0rific!" We've scoured the internet for hilarious and just plain weird crap supplied by fellow gamers. So put on your ... » Read More

Nov 16, 2007

Terminator: I'll be back

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Nov 16, 2007 One of cinema's very best bad guys - i.e. The Terminator - is having another stab at the videogame arena. Reported on The Hollywood Reporter, the company which owns the The Terminator franchise - The Halcyon Co. - has created a subsidiary that'll focus on game development and it's adapting new movie Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins for "next-generation consoles, PC and mobile". Apparently the new Terminator game has already been in development for a number of months, but ... » Read More

Nov 16, 2007

PS3 outsells Wii in Japan - seriously!

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Nov 16, 2007 Sony is happy at the moment. PS3 sales have almost tripled in the US, and new official figures from Japan have revealed that Sony's console has actually outsold the seemingly unstoppable Wii for the first time ever. For the week ending November 11, Media Create figures put PS3 sales at 55, 924, while Wii only managed 34,546. This is great news for Sony, whose sales were probably helped along by the recent release of Dynasty Warriors 6 - the latest in the mundane hack-'em-up ... » Read More

Nov 15, 2007

Sony happy with Wii shortages

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Nov 15, 2007 Weekly sales of PS3 have almost tripled in US since the October 18 price drop, which Sony Chairman Howard Stringer describes as "the breakthrough we have been anticipating." Sony sold over 100,000 PS3s on the week ending November 5, up from 30,000 to 40,000 in weeks preceding the price drop. "It's a little fortuitous that the Wii is running out of hardware," he added, pointing out Nintendo's problems meeting demand in US and UK. "We've been holding our breath," admits Stringer, ... » Read More

Nov 14, 2007

Atari exits production as CEO resigns

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Nov 14, 2007 As Atari exits game production to focus on publishing and distribution, the North American game publisher announced Tuesday that CEO David Pierce has resigned. Curtis G. Solsvig III, chief restructuring officer will be filling Pierce's position on an interim basis as Atari searches for a replacement. Atari had announced Pierce as CEO back in September 2006. Meanwhile, Atari will refocus its business on publishing and distribution in North America, completely withdrawing from ... » Read More

Nov 14, 2007

Return of Earthworm Jim and MDK in works

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Nov 14, 2007 Interplay is looking into reviving its portfolio of deceased game franchises, including Earthworm Jim and MDK. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company intends to bring its in-house development studio back from the dead using the money it gained from the sale of Fallout to Bethesda. In a bizarre way then, Fallout 3 could end up causing a flood of rubbish Earthworm Jim cash-ins in the near future. Interplay could also develop its ... » Read More

Nov 14, 2007

Fan films gone wrong

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Nov 14, 2007 Youre not supposed to laugh at someone suffering. But screw the phony bleeding heart sympathy. Theres something undeniably hilarious about people in pain when captured in the right context. The Germans call this shameful pleasure schadenfreude, and weve scraped the dregs of fan-made films featuring the most painful and humiliating moments of gamers gone wrong. Enjoy them, you cold-hearted bastard, ... » Read More

Nov 13, 2007

Wii gets Photo Channel update

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Nov 13, 2007 Nintendo sends word that the Wii's Photo Channel will receive an update early next month, which adds new music file compatibility and other tweaks to the picture-browsing application. Does anyone use it, anyway? The 1.1 Photo Channel Update replaces mp3 compatability with support to play AAC files, which Nintendo says "provide a greater sound quality than an .mp3 of the same size." Mp4 and m4a formats will also be supported. Apparently, the update also lets Wii owners play back ... » Read More

Nov 12, 2007

Top 20 Galactic Moments

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Nov 12, 2007 Soon (today, in fact) youll be launching from planetoid to planetoid in the blissful, near-perfect space romp known as Super Mario Galaxy. In honor of Marios historic extra-terrestrial jaunt, weve compiled 20 instances of Nintendo characters that made it into the great black void before Mario did (including Mario ... » Read More

Nov 12, 2007

The Top 7... Mario spin-offs

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Nov 12, 2007 When it comes to running and jumping, Mario is the undisputed King of Hop. Every five years or so Nintendo gets around to releasing a new platformer, and each and every one is something special. Super Mario Galaxy is the latest in a long, long line of ultra-successful entries, but how does the plumber fare when he's taken out of his hop-n-bop element? Surprisingly well, actually. Despite the choking amount of Mario-related products, many of them are quite good and deserve to be ... » Read More

Nov 9, 2007

Xbox 360 trumps PS3 in Japan

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Nov 9, 2007 Weekly Xbox 360 sales jumped phenomenally in Japan during the week ended November 4 to outsell Sony's rival next-gen console. The latest data from Media Create shows that weekly Xbox 360 sales rose from 3,718 to 17,673, while PS3 sales fell slightly to 17,434. The rise in 360 sales is most likely attributable to the successful release of Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, which sold almost 80,000 copies in its first week on sale to enter the Japanese software chart at No2. In ... » Read More

Nov 8, 2007

Ubisoft: We'll have "Nintendo-like" quality

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Nov 8, 2007 Yves Guillemot, CEO of Paris, France-based Ubisoft, delivered a fascinating presentation during BMO Capital Markets' Annual Interactive Entertainment Conference in New York City on Tuesday. Guillemot seemed particularly enthusiastic about Nintendo's success in both the handheld and home console markets. "[Nintendo's mass market strategy] is very profitable for Nintendo, and very profitable for all third-party publishers," he said. "...Because [the strategy] is working, we create ... » Read More

Nov 8, 2007

Two James Bond games revealed

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Nov 8, 2007 Activision chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick has revealed that the publisher has not one but two Bond projects currently underway. Kotick described Bond as one of the great videogame franchises of all time, "and that really was a result of Goldeneye", at the 2007 BMO Capital Markets conference yesterday. Talking further about the Bond franchise, he said previously game quality had suffered "as it wasn't a focal point" while it was with EA. It didn't get the attention it deserved due ... » Read More

Nov 8, 2007

Check Mii Out Channel hits US first

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Nov 8, 2007 The new 'Check Mii Out' channel, which allows Wii owners to compare and rate each other's Mii creations online, will go live this Sunday, November 11 in US. UK will have a wait a while longer. "The Check Mii Out Channel lets people show off their Mii creations and vote on those created by others," explains Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications, George Harrison. Nintendo details how it'll all work: "In the Posting Plaza, users can ... » Read More

Nov 7, 2007

World of Nintendo

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Nov 7, 2007 1) Samus Wii Probably the most elaborate Wii mod weve ever seen - and thanks to the razor-sharp prongs of the metal ‘S logo, the only one you could actually use as a weapon. But the potential ninja application isnt the only reason it went for more than $2,000 on eBay. Theres a built-in recharger stand for the Wii Remote, lots of cool LEDs so you can find it in the dark, and the A button actually pulsates with orange light LIKE ITS ALIVE! The genius who made it has also ... » Read More

Nov 6, 2007

Wolfenstein film on hold

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Nov 6, 2007 The could-actually-be-decent film adaptation of Return to Castle Wolfenstein is on hold until the end of a writer's strike in Hollywood, says writer/director Roger Avary. Speaking to SCI FI Wire, Avary, who also co-wrote Beowulf (the film where Angelina Jolie gets her CGI baps out), said that he "is almost done with the script and am proud of it, but everything as far as the production date and that kind of thing won't be decided on until after all this [is] over. And I fully ... » Read More

Nov 6, 2007

Call of Duty developer says current-gen to last...

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Nov 6, 2007 Infinity Ward president Grant Collier has opined that the next console generation wave will hit in around three to four years' time. Describing the developer's Call of Duty 4 as the first game in the second wave of next-gen titles, Collier told Next Generation, "When the games first started coming out I remember thinking, 'oh my gosh, they look so realistic, they can't possibly get more lifelike than this..." "...but then if you look at the games coming out now the photorealistic ... » Read More