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Fans and investors alike have been left flat after Nintendo revealed its first smartphone app. The game is called Miitomo and to all intent and purposes looks quite a lot like a lite version of 3DS title Tomodachi Life. It’s a free-to-play game with premium add-ons. Nintendo boss Tatsumi Kimishima …
Read More »Wii U sales slightly up as revenue increases
Nintendo has said that it sold 1.19m Wii U consoles in the first half of its financial year ending September. That’s up ever so slightly on the 1.12m sold in the same period the year before. The company also said in July that it sold 470k units in Q1, meaning …
Read More »Microsoft to roll out Xbox 360 backwards-compatibility for Xbox One next month
Compatible games include Halo 3, Mass Effect, Borderlands and Gears of War
Read More »Some US Wii U owners left stumped by Project Zero
The digital-only release of Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water (known as Project Zero in the UK) in the US has left some unable to play the game. Kotaku reports that the eShop download weighs in at 15GB. Nintendo has to date released two versions of the Wii U – …
Read More »Telltale details Game of Thrones season finale release
The sixth and final release of Telltale’s debut Game of Thrones episodic will land next week, the studio has announced. Dubbed The Ice Dragon, the episode will arrive simultaneously across all platforms on November 17th – a first for a Telltale release. Along with the release dates of the upcoming …
Read More »Nintendo reveals Yo-Kai Watch 2DS bundle
Nintendo has revealed a new Yo-Kai Watch-themed 2DS bundle set to arrive in North America next month. The hardware package – priced at $100 – is set to hit shelves on November 6th, the same day Yo-Kai Watch itself arrives on 3DS in the region. The game will also launch …
Read More »Xbox One and PS4 are up 40% on last-gen sales
But year-on-year hardware sales declined by 23 per cent in September in the US
Read More »UPDATE: Sega confirms Yakuza 5 western release for next month
Yakuza 5 will launch in the west next month, Sega has confirmed Ablog posttitled Top 5 Movies to Get Hyped for Yakuza 5” buries the lede of the PS3 title’s planned mid-November release for western territories. The new window is the result of a delay caused by "a few weird …
Read More »Nintendo begins sending NX development kit to devs
The first software development kits for Nintendo’s new NX console have been sent out to development partners. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which cites people familiar with the matter” and says that the news means the console is indeed on track for a 2016 launch. The site adds …
Read More »Lords of the Fallen: Complete Edition set for US retail
CI Games’ Souls-like title Lords of the Fallen is getting a Game of the Year SKU which is set to hit retail in North America this month. The firm announced that Lords of the Fallen: Complete Edition is launching for PS4 and Xbox One on Tuesday October 27th. MCV has …
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