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Cammie Dunaway Leaves Nintendo

Cammie Dunaway Leaves Nintendo

Cammie Dunaway, the marketing head of Nintendo of America, and yes, that woman who almost scared us to death at E3 2009, will be leaving the firm on October 1, as she has found a job outside of the ... Read More

PS3 overtakes Wii in Japanese hardware sales

PS3 overtakes Wii in Japanese hardware sales

The Playstation 3 has taken top spot in Japan hardware sales over the Nintendo Wii, selling 1,017,094 units compared to Wii’s 1,015,513. The figures were recorded between January 4 and Septem... Read More

Alan Wake: The Writer will be last DLC

Alan Wake: The Writer will be last DLC

Remedy have announced that the upcoming DLC for Alan Wake, The Writer, will be it's last. The first piece of downloadable content, The Signal, released during the summer for free download for o... Read More

The PSP is ‘getting a bit old,’ says Sony

The PSP is ‘getting a bit old,’ says Sony

Shuhei Yoshida, the development head of PlayStation, has admitted that the PSP is 'getting a bit old.' So, now you realize. He has also said that the firm is "looking at new technologies" in the ha... Read More

Kojima Announcing New Game Next Year At TGS?

Kojima Announcing New Game Next Year At TGS?

The father of the legendary series Metal Gear Solid that most of us (all of us) know of, Hideo Kojima, has stated that he wants to announce his own game next year at TGS, rather than just "editting"... Read More

‘Japan Has Embraced Kinect,’ Says Microsoft

‘Japan Has Embraced Kinect,’ Says Microsoft

Microsoft has sated that Japanese developers have come up with ideas and games for the upcoming motion sensing camera, Kinect, that they could have "never imagined." They say the Japanese audiences ... Read More

Tekken 7 Incoming?

Tekken 7 Incoming?

Katsuhiro Harada, the father of Tekken, has hinted at announcing a new Tekken game on the 18th (today), via his Twitter page. This is what his Tweet says: "TGS Sep 18(Sat) at Tougeki Booth. I'll ann... Read More

Team Ico Collection is ‘overwhelming’

Team Ico Collection is ‘overwhelming’

Fumito Ueda, Lead Designer of Team Ico, creators of masterpieces such as Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, and the upcoming The Last Guardian, has said that both his games in 3D look 'overwhelming.'... Read More

Kinect ‘biggest launch of the year’ says Microsoft

Kinect ‘biggest launch of the year’ says Microsoft

Microsoft confidently believe that Kinect will be the biggest home consumer electronics launch of 2010. Speaking to Eurogamer in an interview MS Games Studios boss Phil Spencer said, "We're inv... Read More

APB Bites The Dust

APB Bites The Dust

Developers Realtimes Worlds, was not saved financially and is no more. The crime MMO, APB has closed by the now bankrupt developer Realtime Worlds.  All Points Bulletin (APB) was an awesome game but ... Read More

Sony expecting 15 million PS3 sales this fiscal year

Sony expecting 15 million PS3 sales this fiscal year

Kaz Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, says Sony's home console, the PS3, is well on track of selling 15 million units by the end of this fiscal year, that is March 2011. After the ... Read More

Devil May Cry creator is disappointed with DmC

Devil May Cry creator is disappointed with DmC

The recently announced reboot to the immensely popular action series, Devil May Cry, is being criticized a lot- because Dante looks gay (but the trailer was cool). Hideki Kamiya, the father of the... Read More

Dedicated Servers Will Come At A Price For Black Ops

Dedicated Servers Will Come At A Price For Black Ops

Activision have just announced that they will be having dedicated servers for their upcoming Treyarch developed Cold War based First Person Shooter, Call of Duty: Black Ops, but guess what- you wi... Read More

Treyarch drops a bombshell on Black Ops

Treyarch drops a bombshell on Black Ops

Treyarch have made a decision regarding campaign co-op in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops, and it's not one that's going to please fans. There will be no campaign co-op in Black Ops. â€... Read More

Valkyria Chronicles 3 confirmed for TGS unveling

Valkyria Chronicles 3 confirmed for TGS unveling

SEGA have gone and done a boo-boo; releasing a timetable that shows Valkyria Chronicles 3 on their 'coming soon' list for TGS. The table, shown in GIF format lists various games for 'coming soo... Read More

Capcom to announce 4 new games at TGS

Capcom to announce 4 new games at TGS

This week at the Tokyo Game Show will see the unveiling of 4 new games by Capcom. The developers behind the award-winning Resident Evil franchise are being a little cagey with the details, but ne... Read More

Square Enix Reveals TGS Lineup

Square Enix Reveals TGS Lineup

Square Enix have announced their lineup for the upcoming TGS (Tokyo Games Show, for those few ******* people who don't know). The following games will be there at Square's TGS conference: Front Mis... Read More

RUMOUR: BioWare working on a handheld game

RUMOUR: BioWare working on a handheld game

According to Mitchell Fujin's Linkedin profile, who's currently working as the Lead QA at BioWare, his studio is currently working on an "Unannounced Handheld Project." It's also written in the pro... Read More

Dues Ex: Human Revolution not ‘consolified,’ says dev

Dues Ex: Human Revolution not ‘consolified,’ says dev

Dues Ex: Human Revolution game designer Jean Francois Dugas says the game has not been 'consolified' at all, meaning that it hasn't been toned down to cater to the console audienced. What does he me... Read More

Will Move be successful? ‘Depends on hardcore gamers’

Will Move be successful? ‘Depends on hardcore gamers’

David Cage, director of the popular interactive QTE based game, Heavy Rain, says that he is very impressed with Sony's motion sensing technology in their upcoming Move, and that it will be success a... Read More