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Smash Bros. Wii U: What we want to see
Sun, 20 May 2012 17:30:00 GMT
This is our list, but what do YOU want to see?.
We don't know much about the next Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, but we know it's in the works.
            
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Amazing Spider-Man trailer introduces the 'Web Rush'
Fri, 18 May 2012 20:00:00 GMT
Exec producer talks over new gameplay footage.
Beenox has released a new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man video game.
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CVG's The Best of YouTube
Fri, 18 May 2012 14:36:00 GMT
Here's what our video team have been up to this week.
CVG's video team have been hard at work again this week, producing some of the finest video segments for your viewing delectation. There's a bunch of goodies here, including our Max Payne 3 review, a Diablo III unboxing, a handy guide to Max's golden guns and even some Hitman: Absolution sniper gameplay. If you want to check out the full majesty of their endeavours, go visit CVG's YouTube channel, where you can subscribe to see all of their mighty works.
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Around the Network - mid May meandering
Fri, 18 May 2012 13:07:00 GMT
All the best gaming and tech headlines from this week...
It's a bit of a quiet week this week (apart from Max Payne 3's shooty antics), but with E3 just around the corner, looks like everyone's keeping their powder dry for the annual assault on the senses and wallets which is the LA convention centre. Still our chums and colleagues in games and tech are ever willing and able to seek out new stories for your delectation and with everything from podcasts to FIFA to the new Kindle Touch you should be most royally entertained. Enjoy!
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US Nintendo downloads: Rayman Origins demo
Thu, 17 May 2012 19:29:00 GMT
And yet more Kirby.
Nintendo's Kirby-revival rampage continues as this week's US Nintendo downloads sees yet another retro Kirby game arrive on 3DS.
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Vita sales hit new low in Japan
Thu, 17 May 2012 10:39:00 GMT
Mario Party 9 tops the software chart in a slow week for the game market.
Vita was the headline casualty in Japan as game market sales fell heavily in the seven days following the nation's Golden Week holiday period.
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Pikmin 2, Mario Power Tennis coming to Wii in US next month
Mon, 14 May 2012 20:23:00 GMT
Plus discounts for Donkey Kong Country Returns and Smash Bros. Brawl.
Nintendo has confirmed that the 'New Play Control' version of Pikmin 2 on Wii will finally be released in US on June 10.
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CVG's E3 2012 Awards: Voting now open!
Mon, 14 May 2012 14:53:00 GMT
Help your favourites win our Most Anticipated game of the show gong...
E3 2012, one of the biggest shows in video games history, is set to arrive in three weeks' time.
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Resident Evil: A history in covers
Sun, 13 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT
What all the iterations of the revered survival horror franchise looked like in the shops.
                    
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New Love Plus: Confessions of a Digital Gigolo
Sat, 12 May 2012 18:30:00 GMT
Rule #1: Make sure your wife isn't watching...
What does it really mean to have a virtual girlfriend? With the Japanese release of Konami's New Love Plus on 3DS, we asked our man in Japan, Daniel Robson, to spend a month investigating. What follows is a wicked tale of glitches, adultery and the potential extinction of the Japanese race.
        
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10 most cynically milked franchises
Fri, 11 May 2012 16:02:00 GMT
If at first you succeed, churn them out until long after everyone is sick of it...
You can't really blame the games industry for wanting to cash in every year with a new version of its latest successful, proven, low-risk franchise, can you?
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CVG's Best of YouTube
Fri, 11 May 2012 14:09:00 GMT
What lurks in our video team's fevered imagination this week?.
Another Friday, another week of pursuing the moving image on the internet. As usual the CVG video team has been on the case, letting their imaginations run wild and capturing the best games, movies, oddities and assorted weirdness on this web we call the world wide. It's like Girls Gone Wild only a bit uglier obviously. Anyway here's a fine selection of what they've cooked up this week and don't forget, you can subscribe to the CVG YouTube channel right here: www.youtube.com/cvg
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PEGI finally set to become the sole UK game rating system
Fri, 11 May 2012 13:09:00 GMT
Current hybrid system also featuring BBFC classifications to be abolished this summer.
The much-delayed implementation of PEGI as the sole UK video game rating system will finally happen this summer.
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Xbox 360 continues to lead US hardware sales
Fri, 11 May 2012 09:37:00 GMT
Microsoft's box has now been the best-selling home console for 16 straight months.
Xbox 360 was the top-selling console in the US last month, with Microsoft shifting 236,000 units.
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Prototype 2 beats Kinect Star Wars to top US sales in April
Fri, 11 May 2012 09:01:00 GMT
The Witcher 2 and Mario Party 9 also make top ten chart debuts.
Prototype 2 was the best-selling game last month in North America, according to retail tracker the NPD Group.
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US Nintendo downloads: Wonder Boy, Monster World IV
Thu, 10 May 2012 21:50:00 GMT
Two classic platform adventures this week.
Nintendo's brushed the dust off the Wii Virtual Console this week with two sweet little platformers.
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Q1 revenue and profits decline at Activision
Thu, 10 May 2012 10:22:00 GMT
But firm labels the quarter a success after comfortably beating internal forecasts.
Activision has posted a drop in revenue and profits for its first financial quarter ended March 31, 2012.
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UK CHART: Modern Warfare 3 returns to top ten
Tue, 08 May 2012 09:07:00 GMT
Sniper Elite V2 hits No.1.
505 Games' Sniper Elite V2 has managed to debut at the top of the UK all formats chart for the week ended May 5.
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Do games have to be fair to be fun? I don't think so.
Sun, 06 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT
Nintendo Gamer's Mark Green loves it when the AI cheats...
Fairness is a hot topic in Nintendo land right now. Why? Mario Party bleedin' 9. You sweat your dungarees off bagging 27 stars, and then a bunch of Boos nicks the lot and banishes you to last place. Boo indeed. Nintendo's always had a strange relationship with fairness.
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Avengers: Battle for Earth domain points to Ubi tie-in
Sat, 05 May 2012 21:00:00 GMT
Ubisoft on the case for a movie frenzy-fueled cash-in.
Everybody's banging on about the Avengers movie at the moment, which makes it kind of weird that there isn't some rushed-together video game tie in making easy millions for some some third-party publisher.
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'Either bring down the price of games in general or I smell another market crash'
Sat, 05 May 2012 14:00:00 GMT
There may be trouble ahead...
On last week's mailbox Tim Smith said he thinks Activision should spend more time refining Call of Duty titles, instead of releasing new ones yearly.
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US Nintendo downloads: Super Hang-On
Thu, 03 May 2012 20:20:00 GMT
Bop your head to a Sega classic.
Bird Mania 3D's getting spotlighted for being the cheaper game available for 3DS right now, but our attention is on that little Sega game at the bottom of the list.
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UK games industry charity GamesAid releases 2012 video
Thu, 03 May 2012 14:00:00 GMT
Check out the six charities GamesAid members voted to support with donations last year.
GamesAid, the UK video games industry charity for children and young people, has released its annual video showing the six charities that received the most votes from its members and each received a donation of £29,000 in 2011.
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Japan: Operation Raccoon City, 3DS top charts
Thu, 03 May 2012 11:19:00 GMT
While Vita sales pick up for the first time in a long time.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City beat Mario Party 9 to the top of Japanese software chart during the week ended April 29.
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WiiWare: 'Window for success passed in 2009' - Nicalis
Tue, 01 May 2012 20:08:00 GMT
"WiiWare sales almost non-existent," says digi publisher.
Nintendo's WiiWare digital games platform has declined to the point of "almost non-existent" sales.
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