Ludlum Dare’s 20th competition – the theme was “It’s Dangerous to go Alone – Take This!” - has thrown out some fascinating games. Last week, I took a look at Drum Hammer Dig, Steven Burgess’ sweaty-palmed trip into monster-laden candy mines.
Tecmo Koei's 3DS title Dead Or Alive Dimensions has been effectively banned from sale in Australia after having its age rating revoked.
Tecmo Koei's 3DS title Dead Or Alive Dimensions has been effectively banned from sale in Australia after having its age rating revoked.
Satoru Iwata is as confused as the rest of us at the investor reaction to the Wii U announcement which has seen Nintendo's stock fall by some ten per cent in two days.
Speaking to Reuters, Iwata expressed surprise at Nintendo's falling share price, but pointed out that the Wii announcement in 2006 was met with a similarly lukewarm response - and that he was confident that would change once people got their hands on the innovative new controller.
Speaking to us at E3, THQ's executive vice president of kids, family, casual games & global online services Martin Good has dispelled any notion that Nintendo's recently unveiled Wii U controller treads on the toes of his company's uDraw peripheral.
Capcom's Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is the new number one in the Media Create Japanese chart, dominating an otherwise slow week of sales with 58,792 units sold.
The rest of the games on the chart came nowhere near to that volume of sales: in second place is another 3DS title, Namco Bandai's One Piece Unlimited Cruise Special, which sold just 16,753 units.
There's just one other new entry this week, and it's an Xbox 360 game: 5pb's Phantom Breaker, which enters the chart at number six with just shy of 10,000 sales.
Consider Cole MacGrath, the returning hero of Infamous, proof of what lies at the eye of a storm: nothing. He might look like actor Sam Worthington and sound like Batman, but to see him is almost to see through him. His eyes are permanently narrow, fixed on his next opponent or waypoint. His mouth is just a slit, source of little more than cynically devised canon. His head is shaved, his arms inked with high-street tattoos. His only magnetism is electrical.
The adverse market reaction to Nintendo's Wii U announcement has continued into a second day, with its shares falling a further 5.2 per cent in Japan.
Nintendo's stock slid 5.7 per cent yesterday as traders reacted to president Satoru Iwata unveiling the console but declining to reveal a price, release date or software line-up. One analyst said: "There really wasn't anything more than what's already [been] reported."