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Nintendo Combats Piracy on its Home Turf

datePosted on 16:06, April 26th, 2010 by admin
Nintendo Combats Piracy on its Home Turf

By joining with 54 game publishers, including Square Enix and Capcom, Nintendo is declaring a combat against the DS piracy by filing suit in Tokyo District Court in order to stop both import and sale of Majicon devices together towards the vendor who sell the devices. The Majicon devices are the flash cartridges where users ...

FIFA 10 scores biggest number one since GTA IV

datePosted on 16:06, April 26th, 2010 by admin
FIFA 10 scores biggest number one since GTA IV

The launch of FIFA 2010 crowns the second best-selling game ever in the UK after GTA IV. This hot title generated about extra 50% more sales compare to the last year’s FIFA 2009.Xbox 360’s won the share of sales with the highest 48 per cent, while its main competitor, PlayStation 3 was 46 per cent ...

Foreign Investment Prohibited

datePosted on 16:06, April 26th, 2010 by admin
Foreign Investment Prohibited

Online game laws had been tightened in China with activities like 3 hour play restrictions to reduce gaming addiction in 2007 as well as the recent one to restrict foreign game companies operate as sole owners, joint venture partners or cooperative partners.This change is to avoid the excessive influences of foreign culture to the Chinese ...

PS3 Netflix deal is only "intermediate step"

datePosted on 16:06, April 26th, 2010 by admin
PS3 Netflix deal is only

An announcement had been made yesterday that the Netflix movie streaming service will be available on the PlayStation 3. The service will allow existing subscribers to stream movie titles at no extra cost via the Japanese famous gaming console.However, since the service is integrated as part of the dashboard on the Xbox360, there will be ...

Microsoft vs Blu-ray in Xbox Talk

datePosted on 16:06, April 26th, 2010 by admin
Microsoft vs Blu-ray in Xbox Talk

The director of programming for Xbox Live, Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson) commented that Microsoft has no plans to initiate the use of Blu-ray drive in their Xbox 360 gaming platform. This is against what had been mentioned by the CEO Steve Ballmer earlier.Hryb, writing on his popular blog claimed that Steve was referring to ...

Games Academy from Abu Dhabi

datePosted on 16:06, April 26th, 2010 by admin
Games Academy from Abu Dhabi

The emirate of Abu Dhabi is in the process of building a videogames academy as part of its plan to attract the industry and build a "cultural centre" in the region.The emirate of Abu Dhabi is in process to establish a videogames academy as parts of the development of the game industry and build a ...

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