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Console Price Cuts Are On The Cards According To Kotick

From the depths of hell, better known as the Activision CEO’s office, have come murmurs from a figure we’d almost forgotten about. Yes, your favourite rabid capitalist and mine, Bobby [...]

Analysts Give Sales Predictions For April — 3DS Off To A Slow Start

Ahead of the  NPD Group’s release of official market data this week, game industry analysts have weighed in with their own sales predictions for the month of April, in the [...]

Nintendo 3DS Battery Life Shorter Than DS

It’s doesn’t need to be said that the Nintendo 3DS will need a lot more power to operate compared to the DS, but it doesn’t seem as though Nintendo has [...]

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GH: Warriors Of Rock! It’s Almost Time To Rock Out With Your Errr… Socks On!

Note: Before complaining to my editor about the title picture, if you look closely you will notice a guitar. It’s Monday (no make that Wednesday, thanks Eishkom) and I’ve had [...]

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Japanese “Commission’s” Thoughts On The 3DS

The following was difficult to obtain, but with a few strings pulled here and there we were successful in getting close to their recent meeting and this is what we [...]

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Nintendo’s 3DS Will Fight Piracy With Technology

THQ’s publishing boss Ian Curran said that the Nintendo 3DS will in fact help ‘combat piracy’. “What excites me even more [than 3DS games] is that there’s technology built in [...]

Xbox 720 and Wii 2 will beat PS4 to the market, says Sony

Sony predicts that Microsoft and Nintendo will launch their new home consoles before it gets round to unleashing the fourth generation of PlayStation. The three platform holders are still to [...]

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3DS Can Store Games On Internal Memory

It has come to attention that the 3DS has an internal memory, which allows multiple games to be stored on it at once. This is according to Japanese financial paper [...]

3DS Is Not For Young Children

Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo America President, has said that the Nintendo 3DS  has “no health-issues” …except for children under the age of 7. “We will recommend that very young children not [...]

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E3 2010: Nintendo 3DS, All You Need To Know…So Far

It appears that the 3D DS that Nintendo was working on is called well, the Nintendo 3DS. The 3DS is the successor to the successful DS line. This is Nintendo’s [...]

Nintendo Market Has “Collapsed”, says Namco Bandai

Are the batteries about to fall out of Nintendo software market? Namco Bandai certainly thinks so, saying the market for games on both the Wii and DS has “collapsed”. He [...]

Ex-Square Enix Dev: Nintendo Digging Its Own Grave

Former Square Enix writer, Masato Kato, believes that Nintendo’s dominance of the handheld console market is about to be brought to an abrupt end. Kato, most famous for Final Fantasy [...]

Is This A Wide Screen Nintendo 3DS Prototype?

A possible Nintendo 3DS platform was filed with the FCC about half a month ago. The new board reveals parts from the Nintendo DS which includes two screens, a controller [...]

South Africa Will Get The Nintendo DSi XL Late Next Month

Core, a local distributor for technology, has announced that the Nintendo DSi XL will hit the market in the April month. The new gaming device will arrive during late April, [...]

Nintendo Politely Declined Project Natal Technology Back In ’07

Nintendo execs have apparently said that they were given the option to benefit from the same technology which powers Microsoft’s Project Natal, however they declined as camera technology was a [...]

EA Sports licence peripherals and accessories

For those who like to customise everything from their consoles to their watch straps, you will be pleased to know that EA games have signed multi-year licence agreements with three [...]

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Tune those Plastic Guitars, a new GH is out soon!

Good news for all you Guitar Hero fans out there! A new GH is coming out if you didn’t know, and as always it promises to be orrsum! As with [...]

Nintendo’s Wii 2 could feature Blu-Ray… But only in 2010

Rumours revolving around the next-generation Wii, or the Wii 2 state that there might be a Blu-Ray player which supports 1080p. Nintendo are apparently looking towards Blu-Ray as it not [...]

Nintendo has unveiled their Big Screen DSi

It seems as if our Pokemon dream will in fact come true. Nintendo has officially revealed information regarding their revised, and resized DS console. The new Nintendo DSi LL has [...]

Is Nintendo’s DSi With A Bigger Screen Only “Speculation”?

According to reliable sources, the new Nintendo DSi will apparently come with a larger screen for more enjoyment. While everyone knows, bigger is better, it seems as if Nintendo do [...]

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E3 Predictions

E3 is just around the corner and there are rumours flying around the interwebs of what is going to be announced. Here is my list of what I think is [...]

Research shows that Action Games improve Eye Sight

Researchers have recently discovered that people that constantly play action games are actually improving their eye sight. The video-game training which players under go actually improve their ability to notice [...]

New Nintendo Wii update now with SD card channel

Yes you read the topic correctly, run a system update on you console and after it restarts check out the new “SD channel” located next to the Wii system channel. And yes if you are thinking what I am thinking, you can now run your virtual console and Wiiware games off your SD card. And that is not all; the new Wii system update also adds support for SDHC cards up to 32 GB! That is a crap load of virtual console games…

Sega gets licensing rights for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Sega have got their hands on the licensing rights to produce games based on the 2010 Winter Olympics, which will take place in Vancouver, Canada. The official news will soon [...]