Did you get home only to have the controller fly from your hand and smash a window, hit your dog, or give your friend a black eye!The year-end report for video games held surprises as next-generation systems took a back seat to the old standbys.Nintendo Europe has announced that in one year and ten months, the Nintendo DS has sold through ten million units on the continent, making it the fastest ever gaming hardware to do so.Nintendo is putting news right in the palm of Wii Owners. The News Channel, free to Wii owners, will debut on the console's Wii Menu beginning today, Saturday, January 27.STRATEGY: Nintendo plans to win a bigger share of the market by changing the way games are played instead of competing with Sony's detailed graphicsLet's get this out of the way first: the Wii's graphics look terrible compared with the competition. But within about a half hour of playing games on Nintendo's revolutionary Wii, you won't care!The contrasting fortunes of two of the biggest players in the global gaming market were underlined today when Sony announced a 94% plunge in profits for the most recent quarter, while Nintendo said its profits over the first half of the fiscal year had more than tripled.Nintendo UK chief David Yarnton has promised that the launch of the Nintendo Wii will be the company's biggest ever!Earlier this month, we heard rumours that the Nintendo Wii might act as a download station for the Nintendo DS!Metal Gear Solid 4 and Rumble Roses XX lead Tokyo line-up on new formats, as Konami looks aheadMetal Gear Solid 4 debuts, Subsistence's online modes revealed, and all-new Metal Gear Acid features on show4Kings announce "Meet The Gamer" in Asia. 4Kings, the UK's only professional gaming team sponsored by Intel, are pleased to announce a week's tour of Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore to promote gaming in Asia.Official signing ceremony held at the Autodromo Nazional Monza, venue for 2006 Grand Final and world famous racing circuit for Formula One Italian Grand Prix World Cyber Games brings the Grand Final to European cyber gamers and e-Sports fans"Hitman" Composer Jesper Kyd Scores Double Album Release. BAFTA award-winning composer Jesper Kyd (Hitman: Contracts, Freedom Fighters, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory) has partnered with Hollywood film soundtrack label La-La Land Records to release the original score from the first Hitman video game, HITMANTM: CODENAME 47.Activision Set to Develop Video Games Based on DreamWorks Animation's Upcoming Feature Film 'Shrek 3'. Following Shrek 2's ranking as the #1 children's video game in the U.S. for calendar 2004, Activision, Inc. and DreamWorks Animation jointly announced that Activision will develop and publish video games based on DreamWorks Animation's upcoming animated theatrical feature film, "Shrek 3," which is scheduled for release in summer 2007.Jonathan Ross To Host The BAFTA Games Awards 2005Gamer.tv Proves Pictures Are Worth 1,000 WordsRevered videogame magazine is back on the internetTV looks to build Game Stars success with series and specialsNext-generation game developers, Just Add Monsters, saved by Ninja Theory |
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