Epic Mickey to reach “Nintendo levels,” say Disney
Posted on | March 2, 2010 | No Comments
Disney believe that the (currently) Wii-exclusive Epic Mickey will reach “Nintendo-like” levels of quality.
Executive VP and general manager Graham Hopper told Gamasutra that Epic Mickey will rise above all other third-party Wii titles, thanks to the time, money and talent involved with the…
Wii reaches the 10 million mark in Japan
Posted on | March 2, 2010 | No Comments
Nintendo has sold over 10 million Wii consoles in Japan. 10, 009,736, to be precise.
That’s according to data from Famitsu publisher Enterbrain (thanks to a Kotaku translation), who also claim that Nintendo’s tiny white money maker took 170 weeks until Feb. 29…
Ex DICE CEO: Wii is “a virus”
Posted on | March 1, 2010 | No Comments
Former DICE CEO Fredrik Liljegren voiced some strong opinions regarding the Wii in a recent interview with Gaming Union. When asked, Liljegren stated he would only develop a game for the Wii if he believed the game would be “an…
76 Wii titles have sold over a million units
Posted on | February 27, 2010 | No Comments
Dan Adelman, Nintendo’s head of business development, has said that 22 first-party and 54 third-party Wii titles have sold over 1 million units. We’re not math specialists here at TVGB but using our elementary educations we can conclude that that’s a…
New trailer, screens for Super Mario Galaxy 2
Posted on | February 25, 2010 | No Comments
Next to giving it an unexpected release date of May 23, Nintendo has also released some new media from Super Mario Galaxy 2 at their San Francisco Media Summit today. Namely, here to crave viewers’ attention are a new two-minute-long trailer…
NBA Jam possibly headed to 360/PS3, maybe
Posted on | February 23, 2010 | No Comments
The LinkedIn profile of Andrea Schiel, a software engineer at EA Canada, has hinted that the recently announced NBA Jam will make its way to platforms other than the Wii.
Next to Nintendo’s system, Schiel’s profile also listed the game as one that will…
Sony preps for future with universal controller patent
Posted on | February 23, 2010 | No Comments
We all dream of the day when Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will unite to bless us with a universal console. That would be totally awesome and bring peace to the videogame galaxy once and for all. But since that won’t…
More DS successor rumors surface
Posted on | February 16, 2010 | No Comments
The previous DS successor rumors have received reinforcements; According to sources of French site Gamekult, several game studios have already received their dev kits for the new Nintendo device. Nothing is clarified beyond that, though the new handheld is allegedly…
iPad simply a larger iPod Touch, Iwata says
Posted on | January 29, 2010 | No Comments
While Epic Games’ VP Mark Rein is “very impressed” and has expressed his enthusiasm for Apple’s newly revealed tablet computer as a gaming device, Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata saw “no surprises” in the reveal and calls it “a bigger iPod Touch.”
The words…
Xbox Live point system stems a lawsuit
Posted on | January 27, 2010 | No Comments
Ever get angry when you have to purchase a batch of Microsoft points for $20 when you only needed $15 worth? Or when the extra points are an odd number that are difficult to get rid of? Well someone hated…
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