In addition to selling a dominant 1.3 million video game systems last month , Nintendo announced that sales of Wii Play have surpassed 10 million in the US alone since the game first went on sale in February 2007.
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Surviving over a decade for a games franchise, with a few missteps along the way, is an impressive enough achievement . Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 (R18) only had to stick to its proven formula, dress it in new next-gen graphics and…Read More… [Source: New Zealand Herald - Games]
Entropia has regularly mixed real and virtual finances. Online game Entropia Universe has been granted a licence to be a bank.
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NEW YORK - The video game industry is holding up, but the gloom of the recession will be on the minds of thousands of people at this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, a key event for video game insiders looking to…Read More… [Source: New Zealand Herald - Games]
Don’t Snack - Distract!
A PopCap.co.uk pilot study that set out to assess if casual gaming could aid weight loss has revealed that casual gaming could be an effective tool in the fight against obesity by helping dieters control their cravings.
The trial, conducted in January 2009, was hampered by some participants not finishing the trial […]
Guitar Hero: Metallica Activision announced today that a demo of Guitar Hero Metallica is available now on Xbox Live Marketplace for the Xbox 360.
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Arguably the most impressive looking driving game for 2009 has been given what seems to be a rock-solid release date of September 18th 2009, when it will launch on the PS3, Xbox 360, PC, and PSP.
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Thousands of people converged on the grieving German town of Winnenden on Saturday for a memorial service for the 15 victims of a shooting spree by a 17-year-old. “All Germany mourns with you,” President Horst Koehler told a congregation of 900, including families of the victims, at an ecumenical service in a Catholic church.
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GDC China Event Organizers Announce that the Independent Games Festival Has Been Added to the Event Lineup
Think Services Game Developers Conference (GDC), the worlds largest professionals-only game industry event, announced at a press conference in Beijing that it will return to Shanghai in the autumn of 2009 as the definitive gathering of top Chinese and […]
Sunsoft has announced that Leiji Matsumoto’s newest manga, Out of Galaxy Koshika, will debut on the Nintendo Wii’s Shopping Channel on April 14th. Sorry, all, Japan only, at least for now.Read More… [Source: Video Games News]