NewsFactor - Building on the success of its Wii game console, Nintendo has launched WiiWare, a software service for games. Wii owners who have their machines hooked up to an Internet connection will be able to download games from both large developers and small shops. As a game service, WiiWare competes with services on other consoles, such as Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade and Sony’s PlayStation Store.
Reuters - Top video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc issued an annual profit outlook on Tuesday that fell short of Wall Street forecasts as a drive to improve quality jacked up costs. Its shares fell 3.7 percent.
Nintendo has announced that the launch of the European WiiWare service will feature 8 titles compared to 6 for the US. Europe will be missing the games \’Defend your Castle\’ and \’V.I.P Casino: Blackjack\’ but will get the games \’Dr. Mario & Germ Buster\’, \’Pirates: The Key of Dreams\’, \’Star Soldier R\’ and \’Toki Tori\’.
Enterbrain has revealed that the sales of the Wii exceeded 6,000,000 units in Japan today. It was also revealed that Wii Fit has sold over 2,000,000 units which means 1 in 3 Japanese Wii owners own Wii Fit.
If you want to try out some Nintendo DS demos from the Nintendo Channel you better be quick. The Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword demo has already been removed so its unclear how long the others will stick around for.
The latest Spanish and German software sales charts has revealed that the PS3 version of GTA IV outsold the Xbox 360 version. In Spain GTA IV for Xbox 360 only made it to third spot behind Wii Fit.
DivX today announced the availability of DivX video encoding to PS3 game developers, enabling them to create high quality DivX video for PS3 games. The availability of DivX video encoding technology will enable developers to take full advantage of DivX compression technology while maintaining the integrity of high quality video. PS3 is the first gaming system capable of playing back DivX video.
Unless you work in a very strange environment, you wouldn\’t want to be caught looking at this picture so its NSFW. The advert is from a Vienna ad agency who thought it would be good to replace someones penis with a thumb.
According to reports, Konami’s Aki Saito said at a press conference for MGS that Paul Thomas Anderson (known for \’There Will Be Blood) is lined up to direct a film adaptation not Hideo Kojima.
The end of MGS4 press event in Tokyo finished with an audio clip where you could hear Ocelot\’s side of a conversation with an unknown character. Here is part of the conversation that has got people talking: By the way, what should we do about \”The Project?\” Yes, that\’s correct. That man has fallen. It\’s about the sequel.
The official MGS 4 site has been updated with 5 flash missions. The page is very slow to load (took me around 30 mins) then you also have to wait for the missions to load.
Enterbrain has revealed that that Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G has now sold 2 million copies in Japan. It has reached the milestone in less than 50 days on sale.
4 New Gears Of War 2 screens have been released.
The release dates for many upcoming Xbox 360 games have been released for Europe: Gears of War 2 - 2008 holiday season, Viva Pi
Below is some two Player gameplay from Too Human. Different character classes team up to battle an onslaught of mechanical foes