DS retained the top spot on the Japanese hardware sales chart during the week ended September 26.
The DS line of handhelds moved 89,199 units, with first placed DSi accounting for more than half of the sales.
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Denmark Street in scruffy Camden, north London, isn’t the first place that springs to mind when you think of game development. Lined on both sides by guitar and drum shops, and having hosted recording sessions from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles – the Sex Pistols even lived here for [...]
Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro says he’s working on multiple game projects with publisher THQ.
"We’re working together," he told MTV. "Hopefully everything will come together in the next few days and we can formally announce it and so forth. But we are talking about huge games, huge world creation and long deadlines.
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Yesterday publisher SouthPeak Interactive delayed the US release of Two Worlds II until January, saying it wanted the game to be "absolutely flawless" when it launches, but the suggestion that it’s in an unfinished state hasn’t gone down well with co-developer TopWare Interactive.
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Format: DS, PS3, PSP, Wii (version tested) Release: October 29 Publisher: Warner Bros Developer: Headstrong Games
On balance, Tolkien turns out to be a better storyteller than Samwise Gamgee. Tolkien’s stolid mix of prose and verse may not be to everyone’s taste, but from it was born a modern myth, the grandeur of which had [...]
Pokémon Black & White held the top spot on the Japanese software chart during the week ended September 26.
Fresh from moving over 2.5 million copies to set a new first week sales record in Japan, second week sales came in at 828,580 units.
Sega’s Black Panther Yakuza New Chapter was a new entry in second place, [...]
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata yesterday pledged to help third parties succeed on 3DS.
Addressing concerns that only first party software can sell well on Nintendo platforms, the executive said: "It is true that the third party software sales ratio on Nintendo platforms are comparatively smaller in Japan. Wii’s third party software ratio is especially low."
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said that the decision to release 3DS next year was primarily due to production concerns.
"At first we thought it would be desirable to launch the 3DS within the year, so we made our forecasts on that basis,” he told an analysts’ conference attended by Reuters. “At this point it is [...]
Halo: Reach remains the most talked about game in a week that sees five new top ten entries.
Halo: Reach remains the most talked about game this week by a comfortable margin, with 26,432 mentions. Bungie’s FPS is closely followed by Dead Rising 2 (12,116 mentions) and Final Fantasy XIV (6269) in second and third [...]
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Like Jamma earlier this year, Tokyo Game Show, which took place between September 16 and 19, was notably scaled down compared to previous events. Attendance figures may have been up, but a reduced exhibitor count left the show floor feeling sparse. The event revealed an industry still focused on handhelds, as well as western audiences, [...]
