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Wii.com Now Owned By Nintendo

Posted August 22nd, 2006

After previously stating that they weren’t interested, Nintendo have now finally secured the domain name wii.com (which now points to Nintendo.com) from the lumber company Weyerhaeuser Corporation.
Nintendo currently own somewhere between 60 to 80 Wii-related domain names, all of which point to nintendo.com.
According to the DNS records for Wii.com, The transfer took place on [...]

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Bizarre Threatens Action Against Geometry Wars Clone

Posted August 17th, 2006

Bizarre Creations, makers of the massively popular Geometry Wars game available through XBLA, claim they are "beginning to feel the effects" of Mark Incitti’s freeware PC title Grid Wars and requested that the author remove the game from the internet for download.
In the email sent to Mark:
"We’re beginning to feel the effects of [...]

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EA extend PGA deal to 2012

Posted August 4th, 2006

Electronic Arts and the Professional Golfers’ Association have extended the deal in which EA make PGA branded golf games for a further six years. This should also mean that we get more Tiger Woods games, provided the sports star is willing. A spokesman for the PGA had this to say:
"The PGA Tour is [...]

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Developers Shun PS3?

Posted August 4th, 2006

It has been announced that there are two publishers that are not going to support the PS3 at launch or for a while after at least. According to GameCentral, Atari have stated that they don’t intend to publish any PS3 games until at least 2007.

This could have meant no [...]

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Game Engine Ports Games To The Mac

Posted August 3rd, 2006

A company called TransGaming today announced Cider, a software portability engine for Apple’s Intel based Macs that developers and publishers can use to deploy their Windows-based titles on Apple’s new Intel Mac – quickly, easily, and without the costs involved with traditional porting.
No longer will Mac users be forced to wait months or [...]

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E3 To Be Downsized?

Posted July 31st, 2006

The ESA, The organisation behind E3 are reportedly making an announcement today to reveal their plans to downsize E3 only for the press. GameSpot’s Curt Feldman writes:
One reason behind the downsizing of the show can be attributed to the dollar cost of the event to exhibitors, including the demands on companies to assign large numbers [...]

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Blizzard Bans 59,000 WoW Accounts

Posted July 27th, 2006

Blizzard has announced that they’ve banned a staggering 59,000 World of Warcraft accounts in June and "removed well over 22 million gold from the total economy across all realms".
The accounts were banned for using cheats and scripts, such as those used for gold farming. Blizzard said on the official site:
“While we regret having [...]

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Nintendo Wii To Be Region Free?

Posted July 27th, 2006

Nintendo have done more than a few things right with their DS system. One of them is making all the games "region free", allowing you to buy them from anywhere in the world.
In a recent talk with IGN, Perrin Kaplan, vice president of marketing and corporate communications in America, dropped a hint that the Wii [...]

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Microsoft Xbox360 Just As Popular As Imagined

Posted July 21st, 2006

By June 30th 2007, Microsoft expect to have sold over 13 million Xbox 360 consoles. This follows the latest report that sales of the 360 so far have surprassed 5 million and are well on their way to passing the 10 million mark before the end of 2006.
The Xbox has hit the USA and [...]

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Playstation 3 Is In Production

Posted July 19th, 2006

The computer component manufacturing giant, Asustek, have reportedly begun to ship PlayStation 3 game consoles to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
The very fact that the unit is in prodcution means that the hardware setup has been finalised and the launch is expected to take place sometime in mid-November. From the article:
According to a report, about [...]

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