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EA Seems Highly Optimistic About Nintendo’s 3DS, Thinks It’ll Sell Like ‘Hot Cakes’

EA Seems Highly Optimistic About Nintendo’s 3DS, Thinks It’ll Sell Like ‘Hot Cakes’

Nintendo practically won universal accolades for its strong E3 showing last month, which was when they debuted the successor to their bestselling DS line of handhelds, the Nintendo 3DS. As the moniker... Read More

WRC 2010 Not in 3D… Okay.

WRC 2010 Not in 3D… Okay.

Black Bean, who're developing the first WRC game in five years, have announced WRC 2010 will not be supporting 3D, but the next edition of WRC will. "This year we do not support 3D for the PS3. Next ... Read More

Xbox 360 Lifetime Sales Reach 42 Million

Xbox 360 Lifetime Sales Reach 42 Million

Microsoft just officially announced that their current generation home console, the Xbox 360, has now sold 41.7 million units. Microsoft and Devices Division also reported a huge year-on-year improvem... Read More

Medal of Honor Devs Form New Studio

Medal of Honor Devs Form New Studio

EA's LA Studio, which is currently developing Medal of Honor, has re-branded itself, and shall now be known as Danger Close Games, a brand that will represent how the studio will be "pushing the boun... Read More

THQ Developing a ‘very, very innovative’ Wii Game

THQ Developing a ‘very, very innovative’ Wii Game

THQ says it has a very innovative and fresh Wii game under the wraps, and believe this game is a 'significant step forward' for Nintendo's home console. Gloabl Exec VP Ian Curran told ComputerAndVi... Read More

CHIPS: Kinect Won’t Boost Xbox 360’s Hardware Sales

CHIPS: Kinect Won’t Boost Xbox 360’s Hardware Sales

Don McCabe, manager of UK independant retailer CHIPS, feels Kinect won't boost the Xbox 360's hardware sales. "In some ways Microsoft has missed the boat," he told GamesIndustry.biz. "Over the last... Read More

Resistance 3 Outed by E-Tailers

Resistance 3 Outed by E-Tailers

Online retailers eStandard.com have listed Resistance 3, and they have given the following description for it: "Continue the fight against the Chimera invasion in Resistance 3, as the battle moves ... Read More

DSi LL Best-Selling Hardware in Japan this Week

DSi LL Best-Selling Hardware in Japan this Week

With 28,916 shifted this week, Nintendo's oversized version of the Ds, DSi LL became the largest selling hardware in Japan this week. According to Media Create, combined, DS sales were 51,264 (DSi... Read More

WRC 2010 Devs: “We are not scared about Gran Turismo”

WRC 2010 Devs: “We are not scared about Gran Turismo”

In an interview with ComputerAndVideoGames, WRC 2010 devs- game director Fabio Paglianti and head of physics designer Irvin Zonca- said they are not scared of Gran Turismo 5 and the guture of their u... Read More

Getting His Ideas Across is a “Massive Problem”, Says Baldielocks Molyneux

Getting His Ideas Across is a “Massive Problem”, Says Baldielocks Molyneux

In an interview with Eurogamer,  Peter Molyneux, the (bald) guy behind the entire Fable series and the developer of the upcomng Kinect title, project Milo, admitted that he thinks it is "insanely tou... Read More

Shape the Plot of Gears 3 the Way You Want to, Epic Calling on LIVE Users to Help them Develop the Story

Shape the Plot of Gears 3 the Way You Want to, Epic Calling on LIVE Users to Help them Develop the Story

Epic Games, developer of Gears of War 3, is asking all Xbox Live users to help them shape the story of their upcoming megaton, Gears of War 3. They want all Xbox Live users to decide whether the late... Read More

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow October Release Date Not Official, Just A Speculation, Says Konami

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow October Release Date Not Official, Just A Speculation, Says Konami

Konami just told Eurogamer that no date has officially been announced for Konami's next Castlevania 3D title, which is due for release on the XBox 360 and the PS3. A Konami spokesperson says the Octob... Read More

Medal of Honor Xbox 360 Beta Begins Today

Medal of Honor Xbox 360 Beta Begins Today

Finally, the Xbox 360 beta of Medal of Honor has begun, some time after it was launched for the PS3 and the PC. Anyone with an EA account should head to the Medal of Honor website (medalofhonor.com... Read More

Tactics Ogre Remake for the PSP

Tactics Ogre Remake for the PSP

It has been confirmed by Famitsu (thanks a ton, 1UP) that Square Enix will be remaking the classic and the much beloved strategy SNES game Tactics Ogre on the PSP, and this time, it'll be known as Tac... Read More

Pachter: Xbox 360 Slim Price Cut Coming Next Year

Pachter: Xbox 360 Slim Price Cut Coming Next Year

Quite a few people are predicting price cuts for Microsoft products today. After Codemasters went on record predicting a price cut for Kinect early next year, industry analyst Michael Pachter predicte... Read More

Codemasters: Look For A Kinect Price Drop Next Year

Codemasters: Look For A Kinect Price Drop Next Year

The Kinect's rather expensive $150 entry tag was confirmed by Microsoft yesterday. Whereas the standalone product might be deemed to pricey by some, there can be no denying that the 4GB Xbox 360/Kinec... Read More

Crysis 2 will feature the ‘best AI in gaming history,’ says Crytek

Crysis 2 will feature the ‘best AI in gaming history,’ says Crytek

We have had AI enemies like those in Killzone, who just screamed 'DIEEEEE!!!!' and died themselves. Then we've had Gears of War, which has superb enemy artificial intelligence. Crysis 2 will be much l... Read More

Molyneux: Fable III ‘a bigger game world than Halo’

Molyneux: Fable III ‘a bigger game world than Halo’

Having admitted recently that Fable II was rushed and riddled with bugs, just as he did with Fable when Fable II was about to be released (we see through your lies, bald man!), Molyneux has stated tha... Read More

Halo 4 Under Development? REALLY NOW, MICROSOFT?!

Halo 4 Under Development? REALLY NOW, MICROSOFT?!

It looks like another game has been released way before it was meant to be. The CV of a 343 Industries (a Microsoft studio) employee seems to indicate that Halo 4 is well under development. A new u... Read More

Ninja Theory: Uncharted 2 Is the ‘Pinnacle of its Genre’

Ninja Theory: Uncharted 2 Is the ‘Pinnacle of its Genre’

Last year's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, sequel to the breakthrough 2007 PS3 exclusive Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, took the adventure genre to a whole new level. Featuring a compelling storyline, slick... Read More