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Following the recall of Mario Party 8 just a day after it was released in the UK, Nintendo has promised retailers it is working as quickly as it can to get it back on the shelves. The Wii title was withdrawn from the shelves after the word ‘spastic’ was discovered …
Read More »GAME ups its global assault
GAME is set to significantly ramp up its presence in France, Australia and Spain before the end of the year, in a bid to get closer to being a truly global retailer”, according to company CEO Lisa Morgan. Of the 50 new stores touted in the firm’s recent trading update, 20 …
Read More »Bizarre makes Project Gotham pledge
Its official release date currently stands as September, but Project Gotham Racing 4 developer Bizarre Creations has vowed that it won’t release its racer until it is completely finished – something it admits it cannot say about the first 360 release for the franchise. Speaking to Eurogamer, Bizarre’s business director …
Read More »Epic Games sued by Silicon Knights
Too Human dev claims Epicâ??s Unreal Engine 3 failed to deliver and harmed other studios
Read More »Futures online success continues
Future Publishing’s consumer games site GamesRadar is celebrating after its first ever ABC Electronic certificate – which confirms that the portal attracted over 3.25 million unique users between May 1st and 31st. The website, which has offices in the UK and USA, generated 42.86 million page impressions during the period. …
Read More »Sonys Hirai to keynote at Tokyo Games Show
The new head of the PlayStation division’s address is to be entitled The Expanding PlayStation World, Business Strategy For New Growth,” according to a report on IGN. Following a muted showing at E3, Kazuo Hirai is expected to kick off Japan’s biggest games show by revealing more online functionality and …
Read More »Rockstar to bring Table Tennis to Wii
Another UK studio has taken to Wii development, with Rockstar Games’ Leeds team working on a conversion of its San Diego sister studio’s Table Tennis game. The game is due out later this year and adds Wiimote functionality to the title’s table tennis league gameplay, reports developmag.com. "Ever since we …
Read More »Games can do good, says Eternal Sonata director
360 developer aims to subconsciously teach players about music composer Chopin
Read More »Tesco expands own-brand software roll-out
The roll-out of Tesco’s own-brand software has stepped up a pace this week, with more than 200 new stores set to have product on shelves by the end of this week. The Tesco Software range was launched in October last year and introduced to around 150 of the supermarket giant’s …
Read More »Rockstar Leeds developing Wii Table Tennis
360 game to make the switch to Nintendo format
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