Nintendo's 3DS was the best-selling hardware in Japan last week, as the release of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D saw the glasses-free 3D handheld outsell PSP for the first time in more than two months.
3DS sold 40,649 units over the course of the week, a comfortable lead over PSP's 31,741 sales, though PSP has been the best-selling hardware in Japan for some time: the last time 3DS topped the hardware chart was the week ending April 17.
Nintendo's 3DS was the best-selling hardware in Japan last week, as the release of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D saw the glasses-free 3D handheld outsell PSP for the first time in more than two months.
3DS sold 40,649 units over the course of the week, a comfortable lead over PSP's 31,741 sales, though PSP has been the best-selling hardware in Japan for some time: the last time 3DS topped the hardware chart was the week ending April 17.
Seemingly without exception, developers really want to talk about LA Noire. With its use of performance capture taking centre stage, creating the first detective game in which the only required reading is the face of each suspect, it's given us a breakthrough we seldom see: obvious and powerful, without which the game simply would not work. So integral is MotionScan, a pioneering 'markerless' capture solution by Depth Analysis, that no mention of LA Noire is complete without it.
Everyone in the video game industry, and anyone with an interest in gaming, can attest that the last couple of years have brought considerable change, and with it an equivalent amount of turmoil. But in this opening column for Edge I want to argue that those events, rather than wrecking our beloved industry, are putting down the foundations for the next stage of growth, and potentially for a true Golden Age of gaming.
Microsoft has officially unveiled Nuads, the Kinect-powered interactive advertising platform on which we first reported last week.
As Microsoft's trademark filing suggested, Nuads - shorthand for Natural User-Interface Advertising - is a platform that will see interactive advertisements on the Xbox 360, a move which Microsoft's Mark Kroese says in a blog post "will change television as we know it - forever."
Paul Cuisset first came to prominence as the creative director of now defunct French studio Delphine Software and is the auteur behind the rotoscoped adventure Flashback, the best selling French game of all time. Now helming Vector Cell, Cuisset's latest project is Amy, a PSN (and eventually XBLA, too) survival horror title in which you must protect the titular Amy, an autistic girl with mysterious powers, from marauding infected townsfolk.
Parliament saw fresh calls for a dedicated Games Tax Relief for the UK videogame industry today after an MP urged culture minister Ed Vaizey to review the issue "as a matter of priority."
Online doesn't much figure in the success story of DS and Wii, so spare a thought for poor old DSiWare. Forever closeted by Nintendo's terrible online store, it is a swamp of chopped-up boxed games, the usual Gameloft suspects, and half-hearted iPhone ports. As its best moments transfer to the 3DS shop, it would be wrong to call DSiWare a service in decline: it never really got going.