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As the new year begins and everyone heads back to work, Gamasutra rounds up noteworthy game industry news, interviews, and feature articles that you might have missed during the holiday break. Gamasutra's Holiday News Gamasutra's Best Of 2011: Top 10 Games Of The Year - As another exciting year for the video game industry wraps up, Gamasutra's editors choose their diverse top picks for 2011's ...posted by Content Keyword RSS on Dec 23
[As another exciting year for the video game industry wraps up, Gamasutra's editors choose their diverse top picks for 2011's best games, ranging from a game about infidelity to the triumphant return of an antagonistic A.I.] The process of selecting Gamasutra's top 10 games of 2011 required a healthy dose of debate among our editors, perhaps even more so than in previous years. That's simply ...posted by Content Keyword RSS on Feb 10
Nintendo's Wii Fit occupies the number one spot yet again in the UK sales top 40, racking up its fifth consecutive week in the individual platforms chart. Additionally, the entire top five is made up of Nintendo titles, including new entry Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir. Part of Big Fish Games' series of popular casual games, MillionHeir features a series of visual puzzles in which players ...posted by Content Keyword RSS on Feb 2
Nintendo's Mario Kart Wii was 2008 best-selling game among sales from the U.S., Japan and the UK -- the three markets collectively saw 11 percent software growth over the year, reaching 409.9 million units sold. Using data from The NPD Group, Enterbrain and GfK Chart-Track, the latest Top Global Markets integrated report puts global sales of Mario Kart Wii at 8.94 million units, with 5 million ...posted by Content Keyword RSS on Jan 31
It's been good to be Nintendo over the last three years, but all great things can't last forever, can they? Times Online reports ( via Gamasutra) that after cutting their 2008 profit forecast by a whopping 33 percent on Thursday, analysts are now questioning whether Nintendo's incredible success with the Wii may finally be slowing down. Nintendo attributed the surprising forecast ...posted by Content Keyword RSS on Jan 12
The Wii's stellar performance in November 2008 -- 2 million units sold -- raised many impressed eyebrows, but the console likely did over a million better in December, claims a game industry analyst. Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter says that, with Wii supplies significantly increased over the holiday season, the console sold an estimated 3.25 million units last month. "The long-awaited ...