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Japanese hardware sales – Nov. 11th to 16th

By  •  November 20, 2008

DSi 85,327 PSP 38,153 Wii 26,787 PS3 17,448 Xbox 360 7,983 PS2 5,421 DS Lite 3,559

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Capcom: Street Fighter 4 Can Come To Any System With Six Buttons and A D-pad

By  •  November 20, 2008

S: Do you think it is likely that Capcom will produce a Wii, PSP or PS2 version of the game in the future?

LT: We have nothing to announce regarding …
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Adults-Only collector’s edition available for House of the Dead: Overkill

By  •  November 20, 2008

LONDON (20th November, 2008) – SEGA Europe Ltd. today announced the red hot Collector’s Edition for The House of the Dead: OVERKILL™ for release in PAL territories. This premium edition …
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Square-Enix L.A. Studio To Focus On Downloadable Games

By  •  November 20, 2008

“All formats – Xbox Live, WiiWare, PlayStation Network – are all viable formats for us. We started the in-house development team a couple of months ago and we’re starting with …
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GameStop: Music Games Still Going Strong, But Not as Strong As Last Year

By  •  November 20, 2008

“The overall category of the music genre is very healthy, and we expect it to be popular throughout the holiday season. But as I think everyone knows, it’s not as …
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Tetris Party: Online Tournament Details

By  •  November 20, 2008

To celebrate the launch of Tetris® Party, the newest official Tetris® game on WiiWare™, Tetris Online, Inc. today announced that it will host a series of tournaments beginning December 1, 2008. The tournaments will give Tetris Party players the chance to compete for Wii Points™.

This means that now is the time for you and your readers to begin practicing your Tetris stacking, puzzle solving, and Tetrimino racing skills to boost your chances of winning!

The first tournament will comprise four rounds, featuring four unique variants of Tetris Party—Marathon, Field Climber, Shadow, and Stage Racer. At the end of each round, players will receive a rank and confirmation code from the game. (See additional details below.)

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Crazy Mini Golf British Champion and World Crazy Golf Champion 2007 Chris Harding takes on developers in their own game…

By  •  November 20, 2008
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Stourbridge, England, 20th November 2008. Crazy Mini Golf is more than just seaside fun and games on a rainy day, it’s actually an international sport, which we British excel at! Chris Harding – the current British Champion and 2007 World title holder – regularly tours the world with his putter in hand, taking on all contenders. This week, he took time out of his busy schedule to visit the Data Design Interactive development studio where he put his skills to the test in a game of “Kidz Sports – Crazy Mini Golf”. “Kidz Sports – Crazy Mini Golf” is available on Nintendo Wii.

QUOTE from Chris Harding

I knew from the start that quite a lot was at stake, this was going to be a serious game. The lads had beer and pizza on the table, and were egging each other on. It’s about reputations and I wasn’t going to go down without a fight, and I have to say this is a brilliant game – I had a fantastic time, I haven’t laughed so much in ages. True, this doesn’t capture the feel of a real game where you have to put up with wind, rain and sometimes snow, but there is (as in golf) serious science in this game; positioning, speed and angle are all there, plus the most important part – the fun…

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The king of off-road returns as Codemasters announces Colin McRae: DiRT 2

By  •  November 20, 2008

Thursday 20th November/… Codemasters® today announced that Colin McRae: DiRT™2, the sequel to the acclaimed best-selling off-road racer of 2007, is now in development at Codemasters Studios for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft® and Games For Windows® LIVE with further editions for Wii™, Nintendo DS™ and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system due for simultaneous release in 2009.

The announcement marks confirmation that the game will be headlined by Colin McRae, honouring the life of the rally legend. Colin McRae, who consulted on the series for over ten years, tragically died in a helicopter accident in September 2007. The decision to continue the famous series bearing his name was made jointly between the McRae family and Codemasters.

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Cooking Mama responds to PETA

By  •  November 19, 2008

EDISON, N.J., November 19, 2008 – Food lover and culinary cutie Cooking Mama is a virtual chef who believes that good home cooked food, properly prepared from the best …
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First-Ever Screenshots for Evasive Space Revealed by YUKE’S

By  •  November 19, 2008

CHICAGO – Nov. 19, 2008
YUKE’S Company of America today revealed the first set of in-game screenshots and level details for Evasive Space, a new action space adventure for WiiWare™ under development by High Voltage Software. Set to launch this coming January, Evasive Space will blast you off on a space adventure in which you will be piloting Konki from a top-down view through various mazes and environments; creatively using the Wii Remote™’s infrared pointer for control. The new screens offer a look at Acts 1 and 2, out of a total of four Acts, each one featuring a central theme and five scenes of varying objectives.

Act 1: Crystal World
-Scene 1: The Gobo Caverns – Timed run through a cave maze
-Scene 2: The Terradyne Asteroid – Open space play; collect “spacemen” while avoiding the asteroids
-Scene 3: The Pirate Nagumo’s Space Cruiser – Timed run through a ship maze
-Scene 4: The Galdonia Nebula – Open space play with rotating level; collect energy cells while avoiding gas clouds from the sun
-Scene 5: The Gobo Caverns 2 – Timed run through new areas of the caverns with additional upgrades to collect

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LostWinds Blows into Japan with Square Enix

By  •  November 19, 2008

19th November 2008 – Cambridge, UK – Frontier Developments, one of Europe’s leading independent game developers, is delighted to announce a partnership with Square Enix to publish Frontier’s critically-acclaimed WiiWareTM title LostWindsTM in Japan and Asia.

“Square Enix is a very successful, development-led organization with a total commitment to quality,” said David Braben, Frontier’s Chairman and founder. “Frontier shares those same core ideals and we are very pleased to be doing business together. Square Enix’s strength in Japan will give LostWinds the chance to shine there, as it has done elsewhere.”

LostWinds topped the WiiWare charts in both the US and Europe upon launch of the new distribution system in May 2008. The game also gathered a host of high scoring reviews praising its deep, explorative gameplay and beautiful art style.

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Famitsu Scans So Far

By  •  November 19, 2008

This is all the Famitsu scans I have found so far, there may be more later on today.

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Famitsu Review Scores

By  •  November 19, 2008

Resistance 2 (PS3, Sony): 8 / 8 / 8 / 9 – (33/40) Naruto Shippuuden Gekitou Ninja Taisen EX3 (Wii, Takara Tomy): 7 / 6 / 6 / 7 – …
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Variety: Boom Blox 2 In The Works

By  •  November 18, 2008

The Blueprint model is also being used on a previously undisclosed, but none-too-surprising, project: “Boom Blox 2.” (not the official title) Apparently work is already underway on a sequel to …
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NeoPets Flash Game

By  •  November 18, 2008

Just recieved and Email from Capcom pointing me to a flash game we can play to get us ready for NeoPets which will be coming to the DS November 25th, and the Wii sometime in December. Check after the jump for the flash game.

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GameStop Best-Sellers

By  •  November 18, 2008

WoW Lich King (PC) $39.99 COD: World at War (360) $59.99 Wii/Accessory Bundle $349.99 Gears of War 2 (360) $59.99 COD: World at War (PS3) $59.99 Wii Fit Bundle (Wii) …
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UK software sales top ten

By  •  November 18, 2008

Wii Chart

1. (2) Mario Kart Wii 2. (3) Wii Play 3. (2) Wii Fit 4. (NE) Wii Music 5. (4) Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games 6. (19) …
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