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King’s Quest: A Knight to Remember launches next month

The first chapter of The Odd Gentlemen’s reimagining of King’s Quest will arrive next month for PC, PlayStation and Xbox platforms. King’s Quest: A Knight to Remember is the first of five chapters that comprise the game’s story arc – starring a young Graham looking to prove himself worthy of …

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MCV Award Winners 2015: PlayStation on playing to win

This year, PlayStation walked away with not one, but two of the marketing prizes from the MCV Awards Congratulations on picking up two of the marketing prizes at this year’s awards. What are your proudest moments from the last twelve months? Murray Pannell, marketing director: I’m very proud of how …

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Price and tablets to blame for Wii U’s struggles, Miyamoto claims

Nintendo design legend Shigeru Miyamoto has openly discussed the Wii U’s market struggles, blaming the machine’s high RRP and the rise of tablets for its inability to take off. The price point was one that ended up getting a little higher than we wanted,” the developer told NPR. But what …

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Altus bringing 3DS JRPG The Legend of Legacy to North America

Atlus is publishing a western release of Furyu’s JRPG The Legend of Legacy, though the version appears to be limited to North America for the time being. The game will release both at physical retail shops and digitally this holiday season for $40 in the US and $50 in Canada. …

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Nintendo exec wants fans to ‘take more risks on the eShop’

The senior manager of marketing in Nintendo of America’s licensing department has urged the company’s fans to be a bit more adventurous with the digital content they buy. "It seems like a lot of the Nintendo fans and consumers they gravitate towards nostalgia, they gravitate towards platformer and puzzle action …

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Fils-Aime: VR is not fun and not social

Nintendo was the first games company to do 3D and the first to do augmented reality, but it looks highly unlikely it will be joining the virtual reality party. Whether it was the new AR ventures of Microsoft’s Hololens or the blossoming VR movement driven by Oculus Rift and Steam …

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Metroid Prime 4 will never be made for Wii U, could be an NX title

If Samus Aran is to grace home consoles again, it’s not going to happen on Wii U. The announcement of 3DS spin-off Metroid Prime: Federation Force earlier this week was met with outrage from the fandom, many of whom are demanding a ‘proper’ Metroid game on Wii U. This looks …

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Iwata apologises to raging fans over poor E3 showcase

Nintendo has promised to do better” at E3 next year following the angry reaction from many fans to last night’s showing. Thank you for watching,” Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata said on Twitter, as translated by one user. We take opinions of this year’s Digital Event seriously and will …

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Platinum is helping develop Star Fox Zero

Nintendo is working alongside Platinum Games to make Star Fox Zero. The developer’s director Yusuke Hashimoto joined Nintendo’s Miyamoto to show off the game at a press event at E3 earlier. The Japanese developer has been very busy, it seems. Not only is it working on this title, it is …

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