Nintendo’s $530 Million Loss
Posted by IGN on Apr 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Nintendo continues to lose incredible sums of money, even as the company’s new portable dominates the Japanese market and its reported losses were less than its previous estimates. For the 2011 fiscal year (April 2011 through March 2012), Nintendo posted a historic first-ever net loss of $530 million dollars.
Hardware sales didn’t quite hit Nintendo’s estimates posted just three months prior, which were themselves revised downward from previous expectations. Globally the Nintendo...
Dragon Quest X Gets Japanese Release Date
Posted by IGN on Apr 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
It looks like Dragon Quest X: Waking of the Five Tribes Online will be hitting Japan sooner than expected. As reported by Andriasang, Square Enix announced the Wii version of the game will be released on August 2. This new title marks the first MMORPG entry in the series. A Wii U version is set to follow, though no new information is available at present.
Dragon Quest X arrives in Japan soon.Dragon Quest X will sell for 6,980 yen (that’s around $86), with a separate version that includes a...
Metal Gear Rising live action trailer teases announcement, tells us to ’make it right’
Posted by PSU on Apr 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
A new live action teaser video for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has appeared on the internet and teases… something for next week.
Closing with the phrase “make it right,” the mysterious video points to the date April 30 as if to say we might be hearing more then. We probably will.
That’s all we can tell you for now – the game’s official website is pretty empty otherwise.
Today, practically every game has some sort of countdown clock on a website included...
Change Coming to Super Smash Bros. Wii U, 3DS
Posted by IGN on Apr 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. series has grown astronomically since it first debuted over a decade ago. Now considered one of the publisher’s flagship franchises, the manic fighting series has more than quadrupled its playable roster, introduced characters from third party companies, featured a stage editor and even a robust, story-driven single-player campaign. Its latest installment, Super Smash Bros. Brawl is figuratively bursting at the seams with content. What, then, could franchise...
Mass Effect 3’s Operation Exorcist Begins this Friday
Posted by IGN on Apr 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
BioWare has revealed their next multiplayer weekend promotion for Mass Effect 3. Operation Exorcist will run from this Friday 4/27 at 6pm PST through Monday 4/30 at 5am PST for Xbox 360 and PC players.
Check out Mas Effect 3’s new Resurgence Multiplayer DLC
Instead of giving out XP boosts this time you’ll have the following challenges to achieve:
Allied Goal: Kill 1,000,000 Cerberus Phantoms to complete the Allied Goal, which will earn all players a Victory Pack.
Squad Goal: Stay alive...
Podcast Unlocked Ep. 55: Mitchy Birthday!
Posted by IGN on Apr 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
If you’re a proud owner of an Xbox 360, you’ve come to the right place. Podcast Unlocked is IGN’s best (see: only) 360-centric podcast. If you want more insight into what’s going on with Xbox Live, Kinect and other things in the 360 universe, download our show and revel in its magnificence. Or send us angry emails.
Your locksmiths for today’s podcast are Xbox Executive Editor Steven Hopper, Associate Editor Mitch Dyer, and special guest, Greg Miller.
On this week’s...
Calvin Johnson Nabs the Madden NFL 13 Cover
Posted by IGN on Apr 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The votes have been counted, and Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin “Megatron” Johnson has beaten Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton for the cover of Madden NFL 13. Fans had been voting via ESPN for weeks in tournament style competition, and in the end, Johnson’s 19.6 million votes beat out Newton’s 12.7 million.
– Madden FacebookMegatron at the announcement.
What do you think of the cover? Let us know in the comments below, and then check out IGN’s brand...
The Age of Peripheral-Based Games is Fading
Posted by 1UP on Apr 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Majesco has announced a new basketball game for Xbox 360 today that doesn’t have to worry about competing with the latest NBA 2K game, and not because it uses Kinect. NBA Baller Beats is a sort of hybrid rhythm/basketball training game that has you bouncing a real-life basketball in front of your television set. It sounds very gimmicky, and in this day and age there may not be much of a place for that sort of thing anymore.
Such a premise automatically limits the potential market for a game....
Konami patching Silent Hill Downpour and HD Collection
Posted by PSU on Apr 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Konami today announced it will soon release patches for Silent Hill Downpour and Silent Hill HD Collection to correct frame rate and audio synch issues. Development teams are currently working on patches for both games—including auto-save issues in Downpour. We can expect a fix in the coming weeks.
The patches will be available for download via the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.Check out our review of Silent Hill Downpour and let us know if you have found any bugs in either games....
Xbox 360 Game News: Madden 13 Cover Goes To Calvin Johnson From The Detroit Lions
Posted by G4TV on Apr 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment
It’s official: Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson will be on the cover of Madden 13. Johnson, more awesomely known as Megatron, barely beat out rookie quarterback and fantasy football sensation Cam Newton by snagging 52% of the vote.
The announcement of the Madden cover, which comes every year right before the start of the NFL Draft in New York City, is one of the annual off-season highlights football fans look forward to during the sad time of late February through August. Over...
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