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May 22nd, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Recession, problems, crawling economy… all these are things we got tired of hearing over and over again. So we decided to ask you which console do you think will win the battle with the recession and the other gaming platforms, as well, and win in 2009.
Tags: Console Wars, Feature, Microsoft, Nintendo, Poll, Sony, Survey
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Apr 15th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Nintendo has announced the release date of the Wii MotionPlus for Europe: 12th of June. The company also announced that the add-on will be bundled with each copy of Wii Sports Resort, which will hit European grounds on July 24 – so if you were planning to invest some more money in your Wii console, [...]
Tags: Nintendo, Release date, Wii MotionPlus, Wii Sports Resort
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Apr 14th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

When recession comes into town, manually made objects follow, because people have this natural tendency of fighting against the rough times while assuring that their lives go as well as ever. The good thing is that some of these handmade items are absolutely cool – such is the case of the NES Controller purse you [...]
Tags: Awesome, Etsy, Handmade, NES, Nintendo, Real life
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Apr 10th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Well… it might be true that the “decade” is not yet over, but this does not mean we’re not interested to see which games sold best since January 1, 2000 until today, right? Fortunately, thanks to an impressive sales chart created by vgcharts, we have the numbers. Check it out in the screenshot to the [...]
Tags: Activision, Charts, Electronic Arts, Games industry, Mainstream, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sale numbers, Sega, Sony, Take Two, Top
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Apr 10th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

We all know the answer to that question: yes, you’d love to be the Pokemon Champion, the best of the best and let other players admire you for the skills you have. The good news is that it is now possible. The bad news for some of you is that you have to live in [...]
Tags: Competition, Contest, Nintendo, Pokemon Platinum
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Apr 8th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

If you remember, a while ago I wrote a feature regarding the best exclusive console games, one that proved that PlayStation 3s had the best exclusives. Well, today one thing is clear: Wii certainly has the worst games on the market. According to Metacritic scores checked by Edge Online, just 4% of the Wii games [...]
Tags: Console Wars, Games industry, Nintendo
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Apr 7th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Personally I was not expecting the just-launched Nintendo DSi to have such an immense success but it appears that I was wrong: in the UK, over its debut weekend, Nintendo’s new handheld outsold all other consoles combined! And, no matter if you’re a fan of the DSi or not, you must admit that it’s pretty [...]
Tags: Games industry, Hardware, Nintendo, Sales
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Apr 3rd, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Even though the winner of the console wars in terms of console sales, Nintendo is not a green console – not at all, if we are to believe the latest Guide to Greener Electronics released by Greenpeace, who awarded Nintendo with an awful score of 1 out of ten (just like last year), but it [...]
Tags: Games industry, Greenpeace, Nintendo, Reports, Study
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Apr 3rd, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

This Sunday, Nintendo launches the highly anticipated Nintendo DSi in North America and, in order to lure even more of us at the launch events, the company decided to present the DsiWare titles that will be available when the Nintendo DSi Shop launches (in other words, the games you’ll be able to play as soon [...]
Tags: Art Style: AQUIA, Bird & Beans, Brain Age Express: Math, Launch titles, Master of Illusion Express: Funny Face, Nintendo, Nintendo DSi, WarioWare: Snapped!
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Mar 26th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Without being a huge surprise – but still a reason for joy – Nintendo has announced that a new Zelda game is in development for the Nintendo DS, after the immense success enjoyed by The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. The new title will be called The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks and, as you [...]
Tags: Game announcement, GDC 2009, Nintendo, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
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