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Twain Harte, Calif—July 7, 2009—O-Games, a publisher of family, social and sports videogames, announced today that CID The Dummy is now available in retail stores nationwide for the Nintendo Wii™system, the PSP®(PlayStation®Portable) system and the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. CID The Dummy is set in a world where crash impact dummies test everything for safety – [...]

Games constantly display the act of murder, but can developer help steer things in a direction where murder is a point of contention, and not an objective? It’s going to take some very brazen developers to get the job done, but an achievement like this could mean monumental advances for the game industry. To be [...]

We may not have the WiiWare version of the game, but we can soon grab some shirts to show off how excited we are! These shirts are the real deal, and both Nicalis and Pixel are involved in the process. Damnit, now I have to wait for the shirt to ‘launch’ as well?! More [...]

You’re not going to be seeing anymore games with an EIDOS-published label anymore. Square-Enix is going to step in and take care of that. With the sale of EIDOS to Square-Enix complete, EIDOS is now free to work on game development without any worry of getting publishing done. When EIDOS wraps up a game, [...]

A portion of a NoAddedSugar interview with Over The Top’s Roberto Alvarez de Lara… NAS: NyxQuest has been compared quite a lot to Lost Winds, another WiiWare title. Was Lost Winds one of the inspirations for your game? Roberto: We actually started the game before the release of LostWinds. They did a beautiful job with that game, [...]

EDISON, N.J., July 7, 2009 - Fresh from the harvest in Gardening Mama, the sweet culinary cutie is returning to her kitchen roots as Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced Cooking Mama 3 for Nintendo DS™. The latest iteration of the best-selling franchise, Cooking [...]

My own belief is that the [video game] sector should get significantly more [government] support, particularly at the entry and training level…I’m also trying to persuade people within the interactive entertainment industry that the role they are playing, and the role that the games they develop are playing, could be far more significant in British [...]

Sonic Team isn’t exactly the best development team out there, and if the latest rumor is to be believed, Sonic Team is really going to be hurting from here on out. Buzz about the net says that Sonic Team’s Yoshihisa Hashimoto has left SEGA to work with Square-Enix. This information comes from Mr. Yoshihisa’s LinkedIn [...]

“eventually, perhaps in the next 18 months to two years. …there is still a huge amount of software in Japan that doesn’t get licensed. So, yes, it’s more competitive, but if you really know where to look, there’s a wealth of titles available.” - GaijinWorks’ Victor Ireland Having someone like Victor in the industry is [...]

Hudson appears to be bringing Shootanto to the states. I know the game was marred by a few bugs, so hopefully Hudson will take some time to clean things up. They could turn a bummer game into a pretty entertaining one. Link

A portion of a Vooks review… A great start for the new series, we hope the quality keeps up throughout. Telltale Games have shown that the classic Lucasarts franchises are in safe hands – Bring on more episodes! 9.0 Full review here

* Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, Wii, 6/25): 353,827 * Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Square Enix, DS, 5/30): 171,242 (462,453) * Friend Collection (Nintendo, DS, 6/18): 170,490 * Ace Attorney Investigations (Capcom, DS, 5/28): 65,863 (267,680) * Sloane & MacHale’s [...]

“We were really hoping to raise the quality bar of games on Wii. All the developers and publishers we’ve talked to, I think they’re playing sort of “wait and see” just now. If it does well and the gamers support it, then I think we’ll see a lot more titles like this. Otherwise we’re going [...]

Nintendo has posted up a massive feature on Wii Sports Resort. The brand-new Iwata Asks is chock-full of information in Wii Sports Resort, giving us insight into the development process. For example, Miyamoto discusses his intentions with WuHu Island. “I had been thinking about the “Island Concept” in one form or another for more [...]

“ (XSEED) isn’t sure what’s going on with European release at this time.” - XSEED rep I wouldn’t worry about this just yet, Euro gamers. I never thought Sky Crawlers would come outside of Japan, yet XSEED decided to take on the task. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Rising Star pick up the [...]