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Wii U to do well despite stiff competition from Sony and Microsoft on Black Friday, says Nintendo
0By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 21st, 2012 |Uncategorized
Irrespective of what the gaming industry gurus have been asserting over the past few months, Nintendo does not view PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as a hurdle in the success of its first high-definition console Wii U. Speaking with GameSpot during the Wii U launch event at Rockefeller Center in New York City on November 17, Nintendo’s director of product marketing Bill Trinen str...
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Star Citizen funding campaign ends with $6 million
By: Jason McCarthy | November 20th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The crowd-funding campaign for the highly-anticipated space simulation Star Citizen wrapped up yesterday, with thrice the amount of original $2 million target being raised in funds. The latest project by industry veteran and creator of Wing Commander and Freelancer, Chris Roberts, had opted to fund the space simulation through crowd-funding instead of getting tied to a publishe...
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Delay in TVii service explained by Nintendo director of product marketing
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 20th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The highly-anticipated next-generation console by Nintendo, Wii U, hit the shelves in America on November 18, but without its novel feature, Nintendo TVii. The free video application had contributed significantly to the hype surrounding the first-ever high-definition (HD) console by the Japan-based company and therefore its absence from the console at the time of its launch did...
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Wii U mandatory 5GB firmware update testing the patience of gamers
By: Jason McCarthy | November 20th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Even though Nintendo launched its first high-definition (HD) console Wii U in North American on November 18, the users were unable to play it because of a first day mandatory update that took up to four hours to complete. With Wii U being the first console in the next-generation space and remaining in headlines for the past few months, it was only natural for the gamers to be o...
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Wii U verifies consent of parents for minors Nintendo Network account through 50-cent charge
By: Jason McCarthy | November 20th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Setting up an account for minors on Nintendo’s online service for Wii U will require parents and guardians to pay a one-time fee of 50 cents to verify their consent. A post on Wii U’s support made it quite clear that children under the age of 13 will not be able to get an access to Nintendo Network unless the company is sure that their parents or guardians are perfectly fin...
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Nintendo boss speaks candidly about smartphone games
By: Jason McCarthy | November 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Nintendo has no plans of turning its focus to the mobile and tablet platform regardless of the surge in the popularity of the latter in recent years. The president of the Japan-based company Satoru Iwata told Wired magazine during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) earlier this year that he does not view a 99-cent Mario game as a great strategic decision. Explaining his ...
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Wii U’s TVii service delayed until December
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Wii U’s free video application TVii will be launching sometime in December, confirmed Nintendo earlier this week. The absence of TVii was significantly felt during the launch of Nintendo’s first-ever high-definition (HD) console in North America yesterday, i.e. November 18. During a special Wii U event at Los Angeles in September, the company had revealed TVii, an applic...
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Black Ops 2 destroys Modern Warfare 3’s launch day record
By: Moses Abaortae | November 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Calls in a C-130, Pavelow and Nuke on its predecessor’s record to become the biggest entertainment launch of 2012 and history as well. Activision now looking for a place to put all that money. The dust is only just starting to settle following the explosive release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. The game is the direct sequel to Treyarch’s previous instalment in the series, B...
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Halo Waypoint releases some interesting Halo 4 stats
By: Moses Abaortae | November 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
More than 4-million players have played the game online, while over a million players finished the game’s campaign in the first five days and over 43-million achievements have been unlocked. Halo 4’s reign as the biggest entertainment launch of 2012 may have been short lived, as Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 wipe...
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Nintendo of President addresses Wii U TVii service delay
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
While Nintendo’s first-ever high-definition (HD) console Wii U launched successfully in North America yesterday, some owners were not too happy over the news of the free video application, TVii, being delayed until December. The video on demand service for Wii U is being described as a revolutionary step taken by the Japan-based company, as it will not only allow the console ...
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The PlayStation 3 is $200 on Black Friday!
By: Moses Abaortae | November 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Following up their PlayStation Vita Black Friday offers, Sony releases details of its offers for the PlayStation 3 as well on the occasion. Uncharted and InFamous bundled with a 250GB System. Black Friday is one of those occasions that many tend to celebrate with more fervour and excitement than almost any other....
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PlayStation Vita bundles for $200 on Black Friday
By: Moses Abaortae | November 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Sony has announced their Black Friday deals for the PlayStation Vita with the Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified and Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Bundle all for $199.99 each. The festive season is nearly upon us and for some of us its all about family, love and sharing while the majority have the Black Friday sales set firmly in their si...
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Treyarch tease new Black Ops 2 game modes
By: Moses Abaortae | November 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The developer admits that a number of as yet unreleased modes are being played by the devs and could be released in the near future, but no specific details were given. If there is one thing that Activision is good at its post-launch releases of content, or as it is more commonly known, DLCs. Of course there is a...
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Curiosity monetisation in the pipeline, awaiting approval
By: Moses Abaortae | November 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Peter Molyneux, the founder of 22cans, explains that the much touted DLC of the game will be released soon, pending approval and concedes that the Curiosity experiment has been unable to live up to its objectives. After resigning from the Microsoft owned studio, Lionhead, Molyneux started up 22cans and his first ...
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Ubisoft tease next-gen home for Rainbow Six: Patriots
By: Moses Abaortae | November 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
One of the first Tom Clancy franchise series to be given the video game treatment, the Rainbow Six games have been on every generation of consoles and PCs and the next instalment in the series may very well coincide with the release of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720. The Rainbow Six games were the first tactical ...
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BioWare rewarding those with Mass Effect 2 in their Black Ops 2 copy
By: Moses Abaortae | November 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The developer is offering the entire Mass Effect trilogy to the first fifty people who found one CD of Black Ops 2 and one of Mass Effect 2 when they purchased the latest Call of Duty game. The world seems to be a better place after a in a bizarre twist to already bizarre events. Black Ops 2 is set to shatter rec...
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PlayStation 3 sales reach 70 million, reveals Sony
By: Jason McCarthy | November 18th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Sony Computer Entertainment marked yet another milestone as the sales of its PlayStation 3 console hit 70 million earlier this month. The company revealed in a recent announcement that the number of its current-generation console sales to retailers around the world touched 70 million as of November 4, 2012. This news comes a month after Sony’s game division admitted suffering significant l...
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Hitman: Absolution development limited by current-generation consoles, says art director
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 17th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The current-generation consoles have been here for quite some time and so far neither Sony nor Microsoft have shown any signs of moving on. While the publishers, developers, analysts and gamers have been complaining about the extended life-cycle of the current hardware, it is only recently that the actual limitations of the console have started to become really prominent. Th...
