Nintendo own half the console market

Nintendo once more led game console shipment numbers, according to market research firm NPD.

The company accounted for 57% of shipments in January and is quickly approaching a 50% share of current-gen game consoles shipped overall – despite a one year market advantage of the Xbox 360.

Of 39.5 the million consoles sold to date, Nintendo shipped almost 18.4 million units, and its share grows every month.

Source: tgdaily

F.E.A.R. 2 Project origin video game Black cats promotion

Warner Bros unleashed a group of black cats across London on Friday to promote the launch of its new computer game F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.

The trained cats are prowling the city wearing branded cat jackets aiming to play on the superstitions of passers by spooked by Friday 13.

The game was released on Friday 13 because of its horror inspired content.

A hotline for cat owners wanting to turn their own pets into walking ads for the game has also been launched.

Warner Bros claims it had been inundated with calls from cat owners requesting the branded cat jackets.

Sony Set To Releasing Hybrid Blu-Ray Movie - Game Discs

In a bid to reinvigorate the appeal of its PS3 consoles, Sony has announced that it is working on a technology to launch Blu-ray/videogame hybrid discs, which would let consumers to access their favourite movies and games using a single disc, sometime this year.

John Koller, director hardware marketing for PS3 consoles, said that the company is endeavouring to come up with a way to launch movies and games integrated on the same disc, so as to bolster offerings of its PS3 consoles.

Quoting the worth of this new venture, Koller said in a statement, “There are a lot of developers who say, we have this game based on a movie, wouldn’t it be great to marry these concepts? We will definitely see this stuff this year”.

Asserting the move as a “curious solution”, Daniel Dawkins, editor PSM3 magazine, said that the Sony requires “a Unique Selling Point” to distinguish its high-priced consoles from those of Microsoft’s Xbox 360.

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FIFA Manager 09 PC patch download No 3

EA Sports FIFA Manager 09 gives football fans full control over the management of their clubs. Whether founding a club, becoming a national coach, or finally leading their favourite club to international glory, all options are open to players in the EA SPORTS football management simulation for PC.

The game contains all areas of club management, from signing new players to training to extending stadiums.

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Bioware reveals all six Dragon Age origin stories

BioWare's Spiritual Successor to Baldur's Gate Weaves an Epic Tale that Begins in One of Six Different Ways

Leading video game developer BioWare, a division of Electronic Arts announced today the highly anticipated details of all six Origin Stories featured in the upcoming dark, heroic fantasy Dragon Age - Origins. Each Origin Story starts the player off with a unique series of locations, characters and events that establish their motivations and lay the groundwork for the adventure to come.

With each Origin Story boasting several hours of unique game play, as well as challenging strategic combat and exploration, these 6 distinct preludes make Dragon Age: Origins the first BioWare game to offer not only multiple endings, but also multiple beginnings. Players will start their adventure in one of the following roles:

Dalish Elf
As one of the last "true elves", you were content to spend your life wandering with your clan... until a chance encounter with a relic of your people's past threatens to tear you away from everything you've known.

City Elf
You have always lived under the heavy thumb of your human overlords, but when a local lord claiming his “privilege” with the bride shatters your wedding day, the simmering racial tensions explode in a rain of vengeance.

Dwarf Commoner
Born casteless in a land where rank is everything, bound as the lackey and thug of a local crime lord, you have spent your life invisible... until chance thrusts you into the spotlight, where you can finally prove whether you will be defined by your actions or your birth.

Dwarf Noble
The favored child of the dwarven king, you proudly take up your first military command... only to learn that the deadly intrigues of dwarven politics pose an even greater danger than that faced on the battlefield.

Mage
Gifted with a power considered a dangerous curse by most, you have spent most of your life secluded in the remote tower of the Circle of Magi to be trained and watched closely by the dreaded templars. Now your final test is upon you -- succeed and prove your strength, fail and you will perish.

Human Noble
Born to wealth and power second only to royalty, you find your training in both diplomacy and war put to the test when your father's castle is betrayed from within on the very night your elder brother is to lead the family's forces to war.

The player’s choice of Origin Story lays the foundation for a profound journey based on the character’s past experiences, establishing how they perceive the world and how the world perceives them. The choices you made during an Origin Story will influence the way the game unfolds, including different story elements, dialogue options and even plot branches, providing a wealth of replayability.

Dragon Age: Origins offers an immersive, beautiful and often threatening world in which the player will live out a fantasy of epic proportions. With six unique paths to choose from, the choice of Origin Story will be the first of many important decisions players will face in Dragon Age: Origins.

Virtua Tennis 2009 will use Wii MotionPlus

Whereas the press release of Sega let plane the mystery, there are not now more reasons to doubt: Virtua Tennis will indeed use the future accessory of Nintendo.

It is the jacket revealed by the site of Sega off America which confirms it via the small news pelletizes blue in bottom on the left. One will thus have to expect to see this magic pastille applied to the plays using Wii MotionPlus, as that is done already for the plays compatible with Wii Balance Board.

Thanks to the use of this extension, the movements will be calculated much more precisely than with Wiimote only and it will be even possible of retransmettre your gestures in real-times, in 1:1. From there to think that Virtua Tennis 2009 announces from the start like the best representing kind on the console, there is only one size of tennis.

With a poster of players and players which will not make shame with formats HD, a large variety of courts and a online mode, the play of Sega can right now make tremble the future Grand Slam Tennis from Electronic Arts of which we for the time being do not have still any detail.

My DoItAll video game on Nintendo DS

The all-in-one, tons-of-fun gizmo!

My DoItAll is a toy chest jam-packed with mini-games and mini-tools. Stay close with friends by exchanging Friend Cards, play wicked tricks using the Voice Changer and Sound Effects machine, become a whiz kid with all its amazing reference tools, and even create your own, unique miniature you!

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Features:

• Stay in touch with all your friends by sharing Friend Cards with your info, or even share your schedule!
  
• Features a cool Voice Changer that records with the DS microphone, and the Sound Effects machine packed with over 30 sounds!
  
• Create your own "mini-you" character with your personal look and style!
  
• Customize your game interface by applying different color and sound schemes.
  
• Have fun playing wireless multiplayer games and custom polls that you can take with your friends!
  
• Use reference tools like the Calculator or World Map so you've always got the right answers!
  

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords Nintendo DS video game

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords delivers classic puzzle-game action with an epic story of good v evil.

Enter the world of Etheria, a land quickly becoming over-run with evil.

Help protect the kingdom of Bartonia from the undead invasion and seek out the source of these vile creatures to ensure the safety of your countrymen.

• Unique and addictive gameplay that builds upon classic puzzle gameplay (i.e. Bejewelled) with the addition of RPG-style character and story elements
  
• Incredibly simple to learn for casual players, with seasoned gamers able to utilise deeper strategies
  
• Embark on an epic single-player campaign comprising more than 150 challenging quests
  
• Quick-play mode allows players to immediately jump into puzzle battles
  
• Create and build a hero; who gains skills, spells, weapons and more throughout the game
  
• Customisable characters gives players the ability to fight battles with unique strategies
  
• Build your empire as you capture cities, build castles and gain a party of companions to aid you in battle
  
• Battle other Warlords for supremacy via wireless multiplayer
  

Onechanbara - Bikini Samurai Squad Play as sexy samurai sisters - Unique Dress-Up mode

Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad lets players take on the role of Aya or Saki, sexy samurai sisters who are earth’s last hope against a killer zombie legion.

Watch the video on my YouTube channel here... please subscribe Armed with only their swords and their hotness, this deadly pair will stop at nothing to solve the mystery of the horde’s origin. Everyone they meet – who doesn’t get killed in the crossfire – brings them closer to understanding who or what is behind the catastrophic monster outbreak.

Aya puts her legendary samurai skills to the test, battling legions of zombies terrorizing the city in order to unearth the meaning of her mysterious IMICHI ancestors. With her sexy younger sister Saki and armed with only their swords and their ball-busting beauty, these two face bondage, blood and nonstop battle, to rid their home of the zombie threat. Every person they meet and enemy they defeat brings the sisters closer to putting an end to who, or what is behind this zombie outbreak.

Unique Dress-Up mode unlocks costumes, accessories, and more
Deep combat system on the ground and in the air with combos, upgrades and an adrenaline-filled rage mode
Exploration across a vast city complete with cinematic storytelling and killer boss battles
Multiple playable characters, including 2-player split-screen multiplayer

Eat Lead - The Return of Matt Hazard video game on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3

An action hero emerges from the pixels as D3Publisher announced plans for Eat Lead - The Return of Matt Hazard, a third-person shooter with a sense of humour, for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. Offering an original storyline and an off-the-wall cast of characters, Eat Lead is written by 2008 Writer’s Guild Award winner, Dave Ellis, and features the return of imaginary 80’s videogame action hero, Matt Hazard, and parodies some of the most beloved genres of games and pop culture. Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is anticipated for release in Q1 2009.

In Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, videogame action hero Matt Hazard gets his chance to prove once and for all that he is the king of shooters when the new owner of mega game publisher, Marathon Megasoft, gives Matt his comeback role starring in a new title for next-gen consoles that pits him against all of his memorable foes from videogames past. In the world of Eat Lead, however, everything stops being a game and becomes reality when it is clear that someone is using the new game to bring about Matt’s death once and for all. With only the mysterious “QA” to help him, Matt must fight against a legion of Marathon Megasoft catalogue of videogame characters to keep it from being “Game Over” forever.

“Eat Lead parodies some of our fondest memories in classic gaming and pop culture, so gamers will have a laugh out loud experience every time they pick-up the controller,” said, Pete Andrew, vice president, product development, North America, D3P. “With an original storyline, Eat Lead perfectly blends action and humour with rock solid gameplay for an experience like no other.”




Eat Lead pays homage to the games of yesteryear with a menagerie of classic enemies such as zombies, space marines, cowboys, genetically mutated super snipers, and more in an expansive level environment design that reflects videogame history in a next-gen package. The game fires on all cylinders with explosive artillery and combat moves to help gamers escape from a variety of predicaments including radically-changing environments during gameplay via the “hack effects” Hazard’s nemesis uses by altering the game’s code on the fly. Throughout the adventure, players will utilize a strategic cover system dubbed “point and cover”, upgradeable weapons and different interactive melee moves to attack and outsmart foes. 

• Ingenious storyline and setting that’s never been explored before in a video game
  
• Top notch, 3rd person shooter with polished next-gen graphics
  
• With celebrity voice talents Neil Patrick Harris and Will Arnett
  
• Hilarious script written by WGA Award winning writer David Elis
  
• Unique visuals that will transform what’s typically seen in video games
  
• Take on video game clichés all at once –cowboys, space marines, wizards, and karate masters
  
• Point-and-cover system -a new innovation in the cover gameplay mechanic that advances the genre