Nintendo’s first entry into the “quality of life” business, which it plans to release by early 2016, is a device that tracks a user’s level of fatigue by monitoring sleep. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata detailed the device at a meeting for investors in Tokyo on Thursday, following the release of the company’s second-quarter financial report. “There is[…]
Wii U sales more than doubled between April and September 2014, bolstered by sales of Mario Kart 8. Surprise, Nintendo just made a pile of unexpected money: 14.3 billion yen in net income, or about $132 million, for the six month fiscal period that ended in September. For the same period last year, the company[…]
How did the genre become so lucrative in the children’s entertainment market? Toys coming to life is not a new concept; we all know the story of Pinocchio’s struggle to become a real boy, or ahem, Chucky, the most terrifying doll in the world. But no franchise capitalised on the idea more so than Toy Story,[…]
Releases this week are: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor for PS4, Xbox One, Super Smash Bros. for 3DS, Forza Horizon 2 for X360, Xbox One, Falling Skies: The Game for PS3, X360, WIIU, Gone Girl for Theatres, Transformers: Age of Extinction for DVD/Blu-Ray. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Release Date: September 30, 2014 |[…]
Releases this week are: Destiny for PS3, PS4, X360, Xbox One, NHL 15 for PS3, PS4, X360, Xbox One, Dolphin Tale 2 for Theatres, Captain America: The Winter Soldier for DVD/Blu-Ray Destiny Release Date: September 09, 2014 | Activision | ESRB: T for Teen | PS3, PS4, X360, Xbox One Everything changed[…]
Now we’re Tolkien! One does not simply become one of the most popular fantasy worlds of all time without inspiring a video game or two. Middle Earth plays host to a multitude of games from humble text adventures to vast, sprawling MMOs, and they show no signs of slowing, with a new instalment just on[…]
Time to pay tribute to those who carried the weight of a company on their shoulders. Ever play that game Jenga? I’m sure you probably have, and even if you haven’t’, it’s not very hard to explain. A tall stack of rectangular wooden blocks are stacked one atop the other, forming a massive tower of anxiety[…]
So many delays, so many games announced for 2015. But these 25 games are still arriving in 2014. Thank the gaming gods! 2014 is well over halfway through, and yet any gamer who’s been paying attention for the last 20 years knows that the best is yet to come. This fall’s loaded release schedule will[…]
Over the many courses of Mario Kart’s twenty-two-year circuit, almost nothing has been more important than the items. Sure, the characters are cool and the tracks give the game some flavor, but it’s always been the items that make or break a Mario Kart release. A few times they’ve been fairly balanced, giving the game[…]
Releases this week are: Sniper Elite III for PS3, PS4, X360, XBox One, Far Cry Compilation for X360, Tammy for Theaters. Sniper Elite III Release Date: July 1, 2014 | 505 Games | ESRB: M for Mature | PS3,PS4, X360, Xbox One Sniper Elite 3 sees American OSS agent Karl Fairburne on assignment[…]
Releases this week are: Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark for 3DS, PS3, PS4, WiiU, X360, Xbox One, Farming Simulator 14 for 3DS, Vita, XBlaze Code: Embryo for PS3, Vita, Blazblue: Chrono Phantasma for Vita, Atelier Rorona Plus: The Alchemist of Arland for PS3, 300: Rise of an Empire for DVD/Blu-Ray and Transformers: Age of Extinction[…]
Releases this week are: Enemy Front for PS3, X360, How to Train your Dragon 2 for 3DS, PS3, Wii, WiiU, X360, Non-Stop for DVD/Blu-Ray and How to Train your Dragon 2 in theaters. Enemy Front Release Date: June 10, 2014 | CI Games | ESRB: M for Mature | PS3, X360 […]
The Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 had unusually long life-cycles of seven and eight years before the launch of their successors, the Xbox One and PS4. AMD hardware provides the processing and graphical powerful for both new machines along with Nintendo’s Wii U. Devinder Kumar, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AMD, said in a conference discussion Tuesday[…]
I am perched on the balls of my feet, the arches painfully taut as I begin to trot on the bland gray carpeting. “Run,” says the doctor, his neck swiveling towards the hallway looming ahead of me. I scamper past the many open office doors on my invisible high heels. I was diagnosed with Reflex Neurovascular[…]
Releases this week are: Watch Dogs for PS3, PS4, Wii U, X360 and XBox One, Mario Kart 8 for Wii U, and Maleficent in theaters. Watch Dogs Release Date: May 27, 2014 | Ubisoft | ESRB: M for Mature | PS3, PS4, Wii U, X360, Xbox One Set in Chicago, where a[…]
Nintendo already has “a clear idea” about what direction it plans to go in with its follow-up to the Wii U, though it won’t be released until owners of its current console are “satisfied”. The news comes courtesy of an investor Q&A, in which company boss Satoru Iwata explained Nintendo has already begun working on the next[…]