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The Xbox 360 ‘Slim’ Enjoys An Even Bigger Launch Than The PS3 Slim

The Xbox 360 ‘Slim’ Enjoys An Even Bigger Launch Than The PS3 Slim

Looks like redesigning and rebranding a console is all the rage these days. Certainly, it seems to fuel market demand. Sony did it last year with the laucnh of the PS3 Slim, which was accompanied by a... Read More

The Last Story Is Not Sakaguchi’s Last Game, So Stop Spreading Rumours

The Last Story Is Not Sakaguchi’s Last Game, So Stop Spreading Rumours

There have been recent reports, fuelled by Sakaguchi's own statements, that his upcoming Wii exclusive RPG, The Last Story, would be his last game. The RPG legend recently blogged about how he would b... Read More

Activision would ‘love to see’ GoldenEye on the 3DS

Activision would ‘love to see’ GoldenEye on the 3DS

GoldeneEye 007's executive producer says he'd love to see a GoldenEye 007 remake on the 3DS, but he says he has no plans for it right now. "Let's put it this way I think we would all love to think ... Read More

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft Respond to June NPD Data

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft Respond to June NPD Data

NPD revealed sales figures for software and hardware for the month of June earlier today, and the results were dramatically predictable. As expected, the DS took home the honours of being at the top s... Read More

NPD June Figures

NPD June Figures

The NPD June figures are out, and my oh my, Xbox 360 is this month's largest selling home console, and is in second place overall, the DS being in the first. The Xbox 360 has sold 451,700 units in Jun... Read More

Okamiden Special Collector Edition Detailed

Okamiden Special Collector Edition Detailed

There are games that achieve the status they deserve only years after they have been released. One such game was Okami, Capcom's classic title for the PS2 and the Wii, which had a subdued launch, matc... Read More

Kid Icarus: Uprising Started Life as an Original IP

Kid Icarus: Uprising Started Life as an Original IP

Quite a few of us were pleasantly surprised when Nintendo took the wraps off the title it hopes will spearhead the 3DS launch: Kid Icarus: Uprising. Essentially, this represented the revival of a fran... Read More

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Will Have An Early 2011 Release

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Will Have An Early 2011 Release

Series director Eiji Aonuma told the Official Nintendo Magazine that his team was aiming for an early 2011 release date with the next title in the Zelda series, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.... Read More

Kojima Wants Co-op on 3DS

Kojima Wants Co-op on 3DS

First of all, thanks a ton, CVG! Hideo Kojima has expressed his desire to see a co-op system for games on the upcoming Nintendo handheld, 3DS. Kojima's comment came as part of a round-robin reac... Read More

Wii, DS Q3 Lineup Announced

Wii, DS Q3 Lineup Announced

Nintendo has announced the lineup for the Wii and the DS for the coming part of the year. It's has been given below in its entirety. Wii August -27th - Grease (505 Games) -27th - Gunblade New York... Read More

Nintendo Doesn’t Care About Competition

Nintendo Doesn’t Care About Competition

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says he is "not conscious" of any competition, be it Apple, Microsoft, or their arch rivals, Sony. Concentrating on others would lead Nintendo into the "trap" of "shor... Read More

3DS Capable of Delivering Console Level Games, Dev Says

3DS Capable of Delivering Console Level Games, Dev Says

The 3DS will be "capable of console-level games" and the developers think it is "an opportunity to bring something special back to the gamers." This was said by JC Connors, studio head at Griptonite G... Read More

Pokemon Black and White ‘major differences’ Revealed

Pokemon Black and White ‘major differences’ Revealed

Major differences between the upcoming and the highly anticipated Pokemon Black and White have been revealed in a Japanese magazine. CoroCoro Magazine reports that Black and White will have differe... Read More

The Last Story Is Probably Coming Over To The West After All

The Last Story Is Probably Coming Over To The West After All

JRPG lovers might have been worried that the slew of exclusive tradition RPG's the Wii is getting over in Japan might not make it to the US, what with the games pandering to such a niche audience and ... Read More

THQ Believes the 3DS Will Combat Piracy Effectively

THQ Believes the 3DS Will Combat Piracy Effectively

The Nintendo DS might have experience some mind boggling software sales, but perhaps those numbers could have been better if the system wasn't probably the system most rife with piracy in history. Wit... Read More

The 3DS Can Make “console-level quality games”- JC Connors

The 3DS Can Make “console-level quality games”- JC Connors

According to JC Connors, studio head at Griptonite Games, the new 3DS is capable of bringing "console-level quality games". "I think the third-party publishers are taking this a lot more seriously,... Read More

Patcher Thinks the 3DS Will be the Last Cartridge Based Nintendo Handheld

Patcher Thinks the 3DS Will be the Last Cartridge Based Nintendo Handheld

Cartridges have shown themselves to be surprisingly resilient, having been around since the days of Atari, and still in heavy use in mdern handhelds such as the Nintendo DS. This, despite many analyst... Read More

New Pokemon Black & White Footage

New Pokemon Black & White Footage

Here is some new game play of the new Pokemon Black and White game on this weird Japanese TV game show. The battle sequences have been improved to play more smoothly. We also get new 3D graphics inste... Read More

Nintendo Admits Marketting the 3DS Will Be ‘Tricky’

Nintendo Admits Marketting the 3DS Will Be ‘Tricky’

The 3DS, while possibly the most accomplished piece of 3D kits yet, has ts own challenges to surmount. Most notable, marketting a system centred around 3D gaming, when most TV screens at home are 2D, ... Read More

Square Enix: Dragon Quest IX is Not a JRPG

Square Enix: Dragon Quest IX is Not a JRPG

Looks like Square Enix is keen to avoid the stigma Dragon Quest has of being a traditional JRPG series, as their latest comments certainly seem to imply. Apparently, the latest Dragon Quest title has ... Read More