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GamersHell Sunday, September 13, 2009505 Games Unveils EU DSi Line-UpTo new games to be
released just in time for holiday
GamersHell Sunday, September 13, 2009MySims Agents Screens #4Three new screens in our gallery
GamersHell Sunday, September 13, 2009Sony?s PSX tanks in JapanThe western release of the PSX, Sony?s souped-up version of the PlayStation 2 that comes with a built-in hard drive and can double as a digital video recorder, keeps
getting pushed back and pushed back, and the latest news that...
About Sunday, September 13, 2009Nintendo files 'The Last Story' trademarkSecret filing hints at new game?Siliconera do it again, it would seem, the website reporting on a new trademark filing from Nintendo in Japan.According to word in today,
the company have registered the rights to 'The Last Story'.While the trademark is registered in Japan, the filing itself - including the name in question - is made in English, which we're reliably informed could mean that the game is an
international release. Japanese-only titles are usually registered in Japanese apparently.Inevitably, Nintendo are refusing to comment on this idle speculation, but the name alone in bound to get fans excited.
Ferrago Sunday, September 13, 2009London Games Conference to address industry issuesTory Shadow Culture
minister involvedThe Conservative Shadow Minister for Culture will speak alongside Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo at the London Games
conference on October 27th, we learn today, the conference set to address the major issues of the games
industry at BAFTA.No topic will be left uncovered it would seem, the industry titans
getting together to look at concerns such as digital distribution, relationships with the games buying
public and more.The editor of Edge will also be present, joined by ELSPA's Andy Payne and even Atari's Phil Harrison."I'm delighted to be speaking to the London Games
conference. The games sector is one of the most successful creative industries in the UK, but it has been forgotten by
government. While Canada and France aggressively compete to attract games talent, all UK politicians talk about is video games violence," Shadow Minister for Culture Ed Vaizey offered."Yet this sector
should be a dream for a politician - it recruits people qualified in
Ferrago Sunday, September 13, 2009Madden NFL 10 struggles statesideAnalyst looks at discouraging salesEA have already said that despite topping US charts, their new Madden NFL 10 release isn't selling quite as well as they might have hoped.
gaming
analyst Jesse Divnich notes this too, and blames Madden 09's performance on the Wii.The EEDAR
executive said sales of the game are down 42 percent on last year's performance at this stage, with EA CEO Riccitiello calling the title's performance 'discouraging'."I believe many diehard Madden fans, who transitioned from the PS2 to the Wii, made their yearly Madden purchase in
2008 and realized that the Wii could not offer the same experience they have grown accustom to (online play, realistic graphics, in-depth team management)," Divnich revealed, speaking to US blog Joystiq."Avid Madden fans have the curse of knowledge... and they know that Madden cannot offer the same experience on the Wii as it did for the PS2. Anyone introduced to the FPS category through the keyboard/mouse combination even still today refu
Ferrago Sunday, September 13, 2009Initial WebGL Support Lands In WebKitappleprophet
writes "WebGL is an upcoming standard from the Khronos Group, the same standards body behind OpenCL and OpenGL ES. It defines the use of OpenGL in websites using the standard canvas element. In other words, websites will be able to render hardware accelerated, 3D graphics natively inside of a web page. In the last week, WebKit, the rendering engine behind Safari and Google Chrome, has added initial support for WebGL, which means it probably won't be too long before Macs and iPhones everywhere get OpenGL web apps. This could have big implications for
gaming
. HTML5 has steadily been encroaching on desktop applications' territory, but I don't think many people
expected browser-based, hardware-accelerated graphics this soon."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot Sunday, September 13, 2009Go Play Circus Star ReviewGo Play Circus Star is a game that allows the user to use either the wii remote or the wii balance board to play. The option to switch back and forth from event to event has its perks and its downsides. The concept of of this game is that you are a performer in the [...]
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