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UK Official Nintendo Magazine subscriptions include Monster Hunter Tri
Great news for all our European readers who also, coincidentally, love the Wii. There’s an Official Nintendo Magazine promotion you might want check out. If you subscribe to the magazine, you get a game for your Wii for free. Not just any game either! You get Monster Hunter Tri, a game that’s actually fantastic…
Exclusive Interview: Zach Wigal of Gamers Outreach Foundation, Microsoft MVP award winner
When I last spoke with Zach Wigal, founder of Gamers Outreach Foundation, he was just finishing up a Halo 3 tournament in January to raise funds for his community.
I caught up with Wigala few weeks ago and learned he has just earned the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award.
Wigal said he only became aware of the program a few months ago after doing an interview with Chris Erickson of 360StyleCast podcast and added that…
Many game companies, analysts disappointed with E3 2008
Not many attendees were impressed with this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). During an interview held Thursday, (July 17, 2008) Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s senior managing director and general manager of entertainment analysis and the development division, told MSNBC that even though many fans of long running Nintendo franchise games such as Mario, Zelda or even StarFox were upset he felt that E3 was no longer a place for those types of game.
Click through to find out what game companies thought of E3 2008…
GDC 2008: Nokia sheds light on upcoming N-Gage service
Nokia’s new N-Gage service has been marred by several delays and, in December 2007, the company formally pushed the launch of the service to the first half of 2008. Now with a pre-launch version, N-Gage First Access, being made available to N81 users through the official N-Gage website, the full version can’t be far off. And just before the launch of the service, the ongoing Game Developers Conference proved to be a great platform for the cellphone maker to shed more light on N-Gage’s new avatar as a standard gaming service for Nokia cellphone which will allow users to download and…
Mass Misinterpretation: Jaffe *not* champion of single console crusade
The idea of a one console gaming system in the future has been drawing mixed reactions across the internet lately.
The creator of God of War, David Jaffe, started a blog asking readers why having a one console system is a bad idea. Nothing wrong in that. The single system debate that has been circulating the web since October 19, 2007, when EA’s Gerhard Florin told BBC News that having one console gaming system would make it easier on game developers having to create compatible copies of their games for multiple systems.
Somehow, many of the headlines on the internet paint Jaffe as an advocate or supporter of the one console game system idea, leading to even more blog posts questioning Jaffe’s original post…
Phillippine president officially takes up residence in Second Life
In a rather interesting gesture, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has unveiled her likeness in the virtual world, Second Life, during the National Innovation Summit held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Makati November 26, 2007. She as joined by members of the Department of Science, Technology Secretary Estrella Alabastro, IBM Executive Vice President for the Innovation more »
What game you gonna call, er, play? Ghostbusters!
Well it is official, for all you fans of the classic 1980’s comedy Ghostbusters, Sierra Entertainment announced the development of a next-gen action game that is set to be released Fall 2008 on all major platforms. While this might not be the film sequel fan’s had all been hoping for, Sierra Entertainment is certainly banking more »
