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Michael Pachter Talks Recession and Video Games

“Demand is really the key. Bobby’s comments suggest that the US recession would trigger a decline in demand for consoles. He may be right, but we’ve seen no slowdown whatsoever. …
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Majesco Entertainment Announces ‘Rollin’ Rascals,’ An Addictive New Pet Puzzler For Nintendo DS

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EDISON, N.J., April 30, 2008 – Round up the lost residents of Kololo Kingdom and return them home in Rollin’ Rascals, a puzzle game for Nintendo DS™ announced today by Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market. Developed by Hoget, Rollin’ Rascals challenges players to reunite matching pairs of adorable critters-from pandas to puppies to pigs-by rolling them around obstacles and into each other to clear the game board of pets before time runs out.

“Rollin’ Rascals is as charming as it is addictive; just a few rolls around the game board is enough to hook you on this easy-to-play little puzzler that gamers of all ages will enjoy,” said Gui Karyo, Executive Vice President of Operations, Majesco.
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Markets Analyst: Blockbuster’s Game Expansion No Problem For GameStop

Sebastian comments in a new investor note that GameStop has maintained, and perhaps even gained, its market share in recent years. This is despite increasing competition against other more generalized …
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Blockbuster Ready To Take On GameStop

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BLOCKBUSTER® Rolls Out Retail Games, Hardware and Accessories Nationwide

Stores Also to Carry More Rental Game Platforms,Titles and Copies

(DALLAS, April 28, 2008) – Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE: BBI), a leading …
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BUCKLE UP! MARIO KART WII PUTS EVERYONE IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT

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New Wii Wheel Brings Motion Controls to Nintendo’s Racing Franchise

REDMOND, Wash., April 28, 2008 – Since the invention of the automobile, kids have pantomimed driving with pretend steering wheels. Since the dawn of the video game age, people of all ages playing racing games have twisted and turned their controllers to steer their vehicles, even though it had no effect on the action on the screen. Now, Mario Kart® Wii makes these fantasies a reality and brings a new level of immersion and interaction to video games.

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Sega American Blog: Hand On Sonic Unleashed

It seems like someone over at Sega America has gotten there hands on Sonic Unleashed and wrote a little review of it.

Having worked in the video game industry for …
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Black Bean puts the mighty Roman Empire

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HISTORYTM Great Empires: Rome

Varese, 24th of April 2008 – Black Bean, a leading European publisher of video games, is pleased to announce the release of Slitherine’s …
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EA Announces Monopoly for Wii
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EA Announces Monopoly for Wii

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Casual Entertainment Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today released additional details on MONOPOLY (working title), the first Hasbro-branded video game set to launch on next-generation consoles including Wii™ and the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system. MONOPOLY will also be appearing on the PLAYSTATION®2 computer entertainment system as well as mobile phones and Pogo.com™. The multiplatform video game is inspired by Hasbro’s highly anticipated MONOPOLY HERE & NOW: The World Edition board game. Currently, the MONOPOLY video games are set to release this fall simultaneously with the global launch of the new board game.

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Prince Caspian Game Gets Exclusive Movie Scenes
17 years ago

Prince Caspian Game Gets Exclusive Movie Scenes

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“The special filmed content that is exclusive to the video game provides insight into Narnia and the events around the ‘Prince Caspian’ story like nothing else,” said …
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FANS CAN ACTUALLY BECOME A POKÉMON WITH TWO NEW NINTENDO DS GAMES

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Online Sweepstakes Accompanies Latest Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Adventures

REDMOND, Wash., April 23, 2008 – For more than a decade, fans of Pokémon® video games have caught, trained and battled Pokémon. Now Pokémon fans will have the chance to experience life from a Pokémon’s point-of-view with Pokémon® Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Pokémon® Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness, two new games available this week for the top-selling Nintendo DS™. Furthering the spirit of exploration, Pokémon fans are invited to an online sweepstakes where they will have the chance to uncover their very own treasure – a prize package filled with Pokémon and Nintendo goodies.

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New Wii Games Find a Big (but Stingy) Audience

This is a pretty interesting article from the NY times. I pasted to whole article here, because I want some responses from this.

Nintendo sits atop the home video-game market. Its Wii, though less technologically advanced than Microsoft’s Xbox 360 or Sony’s PlayStation 3, continues to outsell those machines and is now in more than 20 million homes.

So why are retailers having so much trouble selling Wii games?

Take Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It was one the most hotly anticipated video games of the year; it sold more than 1.4 million copies during the first week of its release, in early March, and broke records for Nintendo of America.

“We certainly have a built-in fan base for Smash,” said Denise Kaigler, Nintendo of America’s vice president for corporate affairs. “I’m hoping that we can continue to generate success and awareness of the game.”

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10 Highly Anticipated Video Games You’ll Never Get To Play
17 years ago

10 Highly Anticipated Video Games You’ll Never Get To Play

Oh, Project Hammer, how I weep for the.

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Games Industry Applauds Latest Record Breaking Sales Figures; Government Urged To Offer Further Support

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Trade body ELSPA welcomes Q1 games sales but implores Government to lend greater support for one of the UK’s most successful industries

Monday 21st April/… Following the announcement that the UK video games market hit a new all-time high for its first quarter results, ELSPA (the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association) has called on Government to significantly increase its support for one of the UK’s most successful entertainment industries. The figures, released in a report just published by analysts ChartTrack on behalf of ELSPA, which monitors the UK games industry’s retail sales by providing official statistics on its business, revealed that retailers have turned over £418.4million across all software for the period 30th December to 29th March, with 17.89million units sold. Video games and home office software were up a third in value compared to last year’s figures of £317million market value and unit sales 15.62million.

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Commando: Steel Disaster Release Date Slippage (UK)

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Sheffield, England – April 21st, 2008 – Video games publisher Lexicon Entertainment today announce that the release date of Commando: Steel Disaster will be delayed until May 30th 2008.

Chris …
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Woot for Zelda!
17 years ago

Woot for Zelda!

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Shirt woot has this shirt on sale for only 15 bucks! That is with free shipping. You really can’t beat this.

Wear this shirt: when you’re going to be …
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Top 5 Selling Video Games on Every Gaming Platform
17 years ago

Top 5 Selling Video Games on Every Gaming Platform

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1. Super Mario Bros. (40.23 million) 2. Super Mario Bros. 3 (18 million) 3. Super Mario Bros. 2 (10 million) 4. The Legend of Zelda (6.51 million) …
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Nintendo Talks NPD Numbers

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NPD Reports Nintendo Finished March with Top Game, Top Hardware In March, Nintendo again defined industry momentum in both home and portable video games sales, according to the independent NPD Group, which monitors retail activity in the video game industry. More than 720,000 Wii™ systems sold in March, representing the highest monthly sales total outside of holiday months (November or December) to date, while Nintendo DS™ also sold through nearly 700,000 systems.Nintendo also finished with the top-selling U.S. game of March. Super Smash Bros.® Brawl, which launched March 9, came in at No. 1 with 2.7 million units sold.

“Nintendo systems represented 58 percent of all video game hardware sold in March in the United States,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “We expect our momentum to continue with big upcoming game launches like Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit.”

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