About James Higginbotham

Wow, what a perfect birthday gift for some one who has a birthday at the end of the month. ; )

Purchase HERE

Link

The survey, to be repeated on an annual basis, revealed that 74% of consumers respect brands that are ‘constantly moving forward’. In addition, 85% said they want new products to …
Read More

Rock Band for Wii Launch Event!

06/21/2008

Start a band and rock the world with Rock Band for the Wii from Nintendo! We invite you to take the stage early …
Read More

Snippit of a Cubed interview:

Cubed³’s Adam Riley: With Wii Fit taking Japan by storm at the moment and more Balance Boards now in Japanese homes than PlayStation 3 consoles, …
Read More

More HERE

I just received an email concerning a Mario Marathon for charity. Here is a little about it:

The event, beginning June 27th, will see the team play …
Read More

EDISON, N.J., June 16, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — Majesco Entertainment Company Inc. (Nasdaq: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today reported financial results for the fiscal second quarter ended April 30, 2008.

Jesse Sutton, Chief Executive Officer of Majesco Entertainment, said, “We continue to execute on our mass market, family-friendly strategy and build on our presence in one of the industry’s fastest growing genres. Our second quarter results are in line with our expectations and reflect the impact of our release schedule and seasonality of our business. For the first six months of 2008, our combined DS and Wii business, which is at the core of our mass market strategy, is up roughly 50% versus last year. We remain on pace to achieve modest gross margin gains in 2008 and continue to believe that we can achieve cash break even or better at an operating level with full fiscal year net revenue between $53 and $58 million.

“We launched six new titles in the second quarter and 10 titles year to date. Two titles shipped for Nintendo’s Wii system, seven for Nintendo’s DS handheld, and one title for the PSP(R) (PlayStation(R)Portable), aimed to maintain our focus on the family-friendly market,” continued Sutton. “We are prudently expanding our portfolio of titles and our studio is on schedule in developing its first titles. With our targeted strategy, improved operating execution and commitment to cost controls we are well positioned to continue improving our financial performance.”
Read More

“We regularly test all kinds of concepts in market research with our Xbox community,” said a Microsoft representative. “These may or may not be real products in development or ever …
Read More

Japan:

Nintendo Wii: – Harukanaru Jikuu no Kade 4 – Narnia Kuni Monogatari Dai-2-Shou: Caspian Ouji no Tsunobue – Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball

Nintendo DS: – Dokusho Shitendo DS: …
Read More

Link

Link

I am not a big fan of Fox news, but I will keep my opinions about it to myself, but I am a big fan of this story. Lauren Burnett, …
Read More

“We recently announced the upcoming release of Mario Super Sluggers. Additionally, we will be announcing several new titles that core gamers will be interested in around the time of E3. …
Read More

UK

01 (__) [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots (Konami) 02 (01) [WII] Lego Indiana Jones: Original Adventures (Lucasarts) 03 (14) [NDS] Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo) …
Read More

Here are just “Some” of the stats you can find with the new feture of the Nintendo Channel:

Super Mario Galaxy – played 5 million times at 25 hours per person.

Lostwinds – played 48,689 times at 3.4 hours per person.

Wii Sports – played 24 million hours at 33 hours per person. 21 million times played with 28 times per person

Japanese stats:

Wii Fit: Duration 20:37, 20.26 sessions
Wii Sports: Duration 30:00, over 28.44 sessions

Zelda 3: Duration 9:44, over 7.51 sessions (21,282 registered sales)
Zelda TP: Duration 50:10, over 21.36 sessions

No More Heroes: Duration 10:44, over 5.12 sessions

RE4 Wii: Duration 33:23, over 15.41 sessions
Umbrella Chronicles: Duration 14:54, over 8.61 sessions

Dr. Mario WiiWare: Duration 14:09, over 9.24 sessions (13,931 registered sales)
FF:CC My Life As A King: Duration 21:14, over 8.89 sessions (33,810 registered sales)
Star Soldier R: Not enough data/Data withheld

Everyone’s Pokemon Farm: Duration 8:03, over 17.98, but… 44,779 registered sales

VC sales information:

Read More