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Thursday 17th January, 2008 - 03:51pm

News: Metroid Prime Senior Engineer Loses Fight With Cancer

Key Retro Studios team member dies at just 43 years of age

Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, an industry veteran who worked on all three best selling Metroid Prime titles, has succumbed to pancreatic cancer. He was just 43 years old. Haigh-Hutchinson’s career dates back to the ‘80s, when he worked on games like Paperboy prior to joining Lucasarts. He helped produce Star Wars..

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Monday 17th December, 2007 - 10:00am

News: Nintendo Snubbed By Greenpeace

Greenpeace'ers snub Nintendo in a new energy report, designed to inform consumers of how "green" the manufacturer is.

Environmental watchdog group Greenpeace has released its latest Guide to Greener Electronics, detailing the environmental responsibility of global consumer electronics companies, and given Nintendo the first zero grade in the history of the report. The two..

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Tuesday 6th November, 2007 - 09:06pm

News: Dealing With THQ

THQ have signed a license deal with Nintendo allowing the publisher to create games based on Nintendo IP's.

Okay so this actually happened last month, but we've only just noticed. It's quite an interesting move by both parties, here's the details: Video-game software publisher THQ Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a license agreement with Nintendo last week that will allow..

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Monday 30th April, 2007 - 10:00pm

News: Sony's Decapitated Goat Swindle

Quite possibly the weirdest game launch party ever has sparked huge media attention. Sony's pure exploitation of a dead goat has left animal rights activists infuriated.

"Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game. The corpse of the..

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Tuesday 20th February, 2007 - 04:33pm

News: Tomy Vs. Ninendo

It has been customary to track the sales figures of Nintendo consoles against that of Sony ones to learn of which company is king of the consoles.

However, today has seen some talk from toy manufacturers Tomy who have suggested Nintendo is shrinking the toy market. The company has cut its annual profit forecast from 5 billion yen to 1.7 billion yen - a substancial drop..

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Sunday 11th February, 2007 - 03:10pm

News: Capcom: "Nintendo Is For Teh Kids, Lol."

Nintendo has always been perceived to have an overly "kiddy" image but recent announcements about Mamhunt 2 and other such mature games looked set to straighten the record about Nintendos image.

Cue Capcoms senior director of strategy to get his 15 minutes of fame: "If there is a “core player base” on Wii, within two years, it will be largely a younger player (far..

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Saturday 2nd December, 2006 - 02:41pm

News: EA Acquires New Plant Solely For Wii Production

Electronic Arts are said to make or break a console depending on how much third party support they provide. so it can only be good news that they have acquired Utah-based Headgate Studios purely for Wii production.

EA has previously worked with Headgate Studios on an external contract basis but after six years the video game giant has finally snapped up the company and is..

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Tuesday 28th November, 2006 - 04:40pm

News: More Wii Success

With the jubilation of Nintendo's official sales figures today came some pretty interesting media quotes and statistics outlining exactly how the Nintendo Wii is a step ahead of its competition.

American Research Analyst P.J. McNealy commented on the Nintendo Wii's launch: "Nintendo's launch has been probably a little better than expected and Sony's has been a little..

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Tuesday 24th October, 2006 - 10:16pm

News: Factor 5 Not Liking Wii?

Star Wars: Rouge Squadron developer "disappointed" with Wii hardware, dubbed "Gamecube 1.5"

Reported today by CVG, an interview with Factor 5 from this months EGM has seen the developer voice their disappointment in the Wii hardware. "Factor 5, currently developing Lair for the PS3, deemed the Wii a "GameCube 1.5" in reference to its relatively similar..

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Tuesday 24th October, 2006 - 04:39pm

News: Sony Blamed For Lik-Sang Closure

Hong Kong based company Lik-Sang.com has ceased trading citing Sony as its main reason.

The popular gaming website today posted the news on its homepage over at Lik-Sang.com explaining the situation and why it has to close its doors. "As of today, Lik-Sang.com will not be in the position to accept any new orders and will cancel and refund all existing orders that have..

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Wednesday 18th October, 2006 - 02:06pm

News: Japanese Analysts Announces Their Forecast

A Japanese game-magazine publisher recently had a peek into their magic crystal ball to predict the future of console gaming. Too bad we don't have one of those around here, but lucky for us, the analysts were kind enough to tell us what the future brings.

Apparently, analysts have a rare gift that let them see into the future and predict what's going to happen, maybe they..

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Friday 13th October, 2006 - 06:31pm

News: DS Market Dominance

Nintendo celebrate the success of the Nintendo DS in the United States helping the industry grow over 11% this year.

According to Nintendo the DS is reaching a new gaming audience of both women and older generations with such games like those featured in the "Touch! Generations" series of games. "Through September's end, the U.S. industry overall shows revenue growth..

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Friday 22nd September, 2006 - 04:29pm

News: Sony Cuts The Price Of Playstation 3

Sony just announced that their upcoming home console Playstation 3, will be 20% cheaper than expected when they release it In Japan later this year.

The competition in the highly anticipated console war is undoubtly heating up, and it's getting worse, as Sony just announced that the Japanese version of their console will get a price cut. The decision was made after several..

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Friday 15th September, 2006 - 04:31pm

News: 6 Million DS Units Sold In Europe

Since it's release back in March 2005, the Nintendo DS has sold a total of 6 million units in Europe, proving that Europe is indeed an important market, despite the fact that most publishers and developers seems to ignore us.

A good example of this is the next generation consoles, the Wii will be launched later and more expansive in Europe than in the rest of the world, but..

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Sunday 10th September, 2006 - 10:10am

News: Gamecube Outsells Xbox 360 In Japan

By now, most people know that the Xbox 360 isn't doing that good over in Japan, in fact it's doing terrible. But still, Enterbrain's marketing data service surprised me.

According to Enterbrain, Microsoft's newest console has sold a total of 75,837 units so far this year, while the Nintendo Gamecube has sold 77,124. Both numbers are for Japan, obviously. Yeah, that's'..

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Monday 24th July, 2006 - 04:58pm

News: Nintendo's Profits Soar

Nintendo announce improved profits for the first quarter of 2006 due to DS Lite, Mario and Brain Training sales.

Good times are rolling in Japan today, the sake must be flowing as Nintendo post figures from the first quarter of 2006 (April, May, June). "For the first quarter, the company confirmed net sales of 130.9 billion Yen (£605 million), up 85% compared to the..

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Tuesday 4th July, 2006 - 03:39pm

News: Nintendo Invades Korea

Nintendo have announced plans to setup a new subsidiary in South Korea, located in the capital Seoul.

Nintendo steps outside into a new market, this time South Korea is the focus. The country which has seen vast changes in its culture over the past decade or two, South Korea is one of the fastest developing markets and already has a strong music, TV and film industry. The..

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Thursday 22nd June, 2006 - 12:25am

News: Nintendo's Corporate Policy Briefing

Nintendo have released an English translation & video of their Corporate Policy Briefing held earlier this month.

Tokyo, June 7th saw Nintendo's Corporate Policy Briefing 2006, this was the meeting where we learnt that Wii release date and price would be announced by September this year. Nintendo have now released the transcript and a full English translation of the speech..

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Tuesday 20th June, 2006 - 11:35pm

News: Reggie To Give Montreal Games Summit Keynote

Reggie Fils-Aime has been confirmed to give keynote speech at Novembers Montreal International Game Summit

GameIndustry.biz reports that Montreal is in for a real treat, Reggie has been confirmed as this years keynote speaker. "Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is set to provide the keynote address at the Montreal International Game Summit in November,..

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Tuesday 20th June, 2006 - 12:25am

News: Nintendo Registers New Patents

The latest Nintendo trademarks WiiPointer, WiiCulture, and !!M are discovered in Japan.

It seems Nintendo have generated huge interest in their products just by registering domain names, submitting patent applications and now trademark submissions. The latest buzzwords submitted to the Japanese Trademark Office are: WiiPointer WiiCulture !!M (Upside down

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Thursday 1st June, 2006 - 07:29pm

News: Games Critics Awards Are In

A week ago we brought you news about the nominations for the Games Critics Awards for best of the show at E3. Well now the results are in and we can see how well Nintendo did.

Without further waiting, here are the winners: Best of Show:Wii (Nintendo) Best Original Game:Spore (Maxis/Electronic Arts for PC) Best Hardware/Peripheral:Wii (Nintendo) Best Console Game:

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Monday 29th May, 2006 - 08:12pm

News: Why Wii?

Whats in a name? Sir Miyamoto says Revolution was just a too threatening name for the non gamer.

Recently reported by IGN, the games master himself Shigeru Miyamoto revealed to CNNMoney.com the reason behind the name change, from Revolution to Wii. It's been nearly a month since the original Wii announcement, its probably one your not going to forget. Wii admit, even one..

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Sunday 28th May, 2006 - 06:00pm

News: Nintendo Registers Multiple Domains

Nintendo of America has registered several Wii-related web domains that do hint to us about new Wii ideas.

Over 40 domains have been uncovered. Many of these domains have specific names that hint to us what Nintendo is doing with the Wii. Such names as WiiSchool.com, WiiChallenger.com and WiiKaraoke.com give us ideas of what Nintendo is coming up with for its newest..

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Thursday 25th May, 2006 - 11:31pm

News: Reggie For President

Nintendo announce that Reggie Fils-Aime is being promoted to president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.

Nintendo of America have today announced a change amongst its ranks. Current President Tatsumi Kimishima is taking on the new role of chairman of the board and chief executive officer, while Reggie Fils-Aime is being promoted to president and chief..

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Thursday 25th May, 2006 - 12:27pm

News: The Game Critics 2006 E3 Awards

GameCriticsAwards have announced the nominees for this years best of E3 awards.

It's that time of year again, after every good E3 show comes the awards. “The 38 publications voting for the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2006 are proud to announce this year's nominees. The committee has recognized 54 products from 20 different publishers.” Interestingly we see that..

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Sunday 7th May, 2006 - 06:45pm

News: Developing For The Wii Costs Less

In a recent conference with investors, THQ's president and CEO, Brian Ferrel, revealed that developing for the Wii may be as low 25% of what developing for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 may be.

"One of the things we like about that platform is the development costs...on the Wii are nowhere near what they are on the PS3 and Xbox 360," said Ferrel. " wasn't a whole new..

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Saturday 4th March, 2006 - 02:56pm

News: The Best Of The Best Of

Microsoft announce a new budget range selling the best of the best for as little as $9.99!

Cast your eyes back to the "Platinum" range of PlayStation titles, giving you the best games at the best prices a few years after the original release. These strategy has been adopted by the industry as a whole, all the major consoles have had "Best Of" ranges at budget prices,..

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Wednesday 8th February, 2006 - 01:34pm

News: Iwatta's Disrupting Development

More details on what to expect from Iwatta at Games Developers Conference 2006.

Nintendo feed us more details on the GDC keynote speech in March. Satoru Iwata returns for the second year for keynote speech of the 2006 Game Developers Conference. "GDC, the world's largest event exclusively devoted to the art of game creation, will take place at the San Jose Convention Center..

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Saturday 4th February, 2006 - 11:13am

News: Nintendo World Store Interior Design Award

Nintendo's New York store bags a couple of awards for its interior design.

Reggie will be proud, the Nintendo World Store has collected a couple of design awards, proving that Nintendo isn't just popular with us gamers. The New York store earned itself "Store of the Year" and "First Place Specialty Store over 10,000 Square Feet" at the "35th Annual Institute of Store..

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Tuesday 10th January, 2006 - 10:59am

News: Gaming Convergence

We take a look at convergence between PCs and Consoles. Will it ever happen?

Reading up about the CES show over the weekend I noticed an article on The Register where Micheal Dell - of Dell Computers - attacked Microsoft's Xbox 360 with a wash of outrageous claims. "Dell dismissed Microsoft as a "so called high-definition gaming" player, saying that gaming..

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