Taito Trademarks Darius Twin, Lufia 1 & 2 With U.S. Patent Office
The Virtual Console may be adding a couple more 16-bit RPGs to its lineup following word that Taito has trademarked a number of its older games with the U.S. Patent Office. Siliconera reports that the Square Enix subsidiary has trademarked Darius Twin , Lufia and Lufia II
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Taito Trademarks Darius Twin, Lufia 1 & 2 With U.S. Patent Office
Consoles Overdue for Price Cuts, Says Research Firm
Console price drops could boost sales not only of the systems, but of recent motion peripherals associated with them, according to an investment research group. GamesIndustry.biz reports that Cowan & Company conducted a survey of 2,301 respondents, and found that price is an issue for those who might otherwise be interested in jumping into motion gaming.
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Japan Has Logged Over 1 Million Hours in Super Mario World
Sunday, November 21st was the twentieth anniversary of the Super Famicom, the Japanese predecessor to the Super Nintendo.
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WiiWare Games Finally Getting Downloadable Demos
Tired of seeing WiiWare games sporadically released on Nintendo’s Wii Shop Channel, only to have no way of testing them out before you plunk down your ethereal Nintendo monetary points for them? Well two years after the WiiWare service launched, that’ll finally be changing: Nintendo has announced that starting November 22, you’ll be able to download samples of WiiWare games before you’re actually forced to buy one. Essentially, it’ll be like downloading trial versions of Xbox Live Arcade games — except apparently still not quite as user-friendly as that method.
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean Coming Spring, 2011
Now that it’s announced, it seems like it was inevitable, doesn’t it?
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LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean Coming Spring, 2011
Wii Speak Stock Dwindles as Nintendo Cancels Support
Wii Speak, Nintendo’s voice chat peripheral for the Wii, may be reaching the end of its life cycle.
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Wii Speak Stock Dwindles as Nintendo Cancels Support
Japan Review Check: Mario Sports Mix, DoDonPachi
A quick sampling of the biggest games to hit Japanese shops in the next week, courtesy of Famitsu’s review pages: – Mario Sports Mix (8/7/7/8, 30 points): Nintendo and Square Enix’s Wii sports compilation has largely gone under the radar worldwide since its E3 debut — and indeed, Famitsu’s editors can’t seem to drum up a heck of a lot of enthusiasm to what amounts to yet another Wii party game.
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Japan Review Check: Mario Sports Mix, DoDonPachi
Tony Hawk: Shred Sells Only 3,000 Units in October
NBA 2K11 and Fallout: New Vegas were the big winners in the U.S. for the month of October, but which games didn’t fair so well? Let us consider the plight of Tony Hawk: Shred , the second game to use Activision’s skateboard peripheral…which sold a paltry 3,000 units in it’s first week of release last month.
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Tony Hawk: Shred Sells Only 3,000 Units in October
LucasArts Hit by More Layoffs, Cuts Reportedly from Unannounced Project
Having laid off more than 80 employees following the completion of The Force Unleashed 2 , LucasArts announced another round of what the publisher is calling “minor adjustments” today. “LucasArts recently made a minor adjustment in staffing to help us better address the needs of the business,” the studio said in a statement
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U.K. Sees Highest Grossing Week Ever Thanks to Black Ops, Kinect
Reports from European trade bodies UKIE and GFK Chart-Track ( via Gamasutra) indicate that last week’s U.K. videogame sales numbers topped the all-time record in the region, thanks in part to the dueling launches of Microsoft’s Kinect and Call of Duty: Black Ops . Overall revenue for the week soared to £113.8 million (nearly $183 million) in the U.K
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