Microsoft spokesman David Dennis said that the firm has sold twice as many Xbox 360 consoles during Thanksgiving week compared to the previous week. Specific figures are yet to be given.
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Cammie Dunaway, executive VP of sales and marketing for Nintendo of America, believes that Wii is in a very good position going into the holidays.
Nintendo sold over 1.5 million hardware units (which includes Wii, DS and DSi systems) in the U.S. during Thanksgiving week. Of that figure 550,000 consoles are said to have been Wii units following the $50 price cut.
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During a financial earnings conference call earlier today to discuss the French publisher’s latest set of results, CEO Yves Guillemot said to expect ten Ubisoft Natal titles to be released within the first six months of Microsoft’s launch.
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MMORPG.com traveled down to Los Gatos to talk to the team and play Star Trek Online.
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Ubisoft has announced a €78 million operating loss, in line with expectations, as part of its financial results for the six month period that ended September 30, 2009.
The operating loss has been attributed to a €130.5 million decrease in gross profit and a €14.5 million reduction in R&D expenses “due to a smaller number of games launches.”
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A new $1.99 iPhone app has been released that allows you to sign into the service securely using your existing Xbox Live credentials.
According to the firm behind the app, the program has been designed for hardcore Xbox 360 gamers and iPhone owners. The app retrieves your friends Xbox Live stats such as their gamerscore, online status, gamer pictures, avatars, latest games and achievements. You can also send and receive messages using the app.
The full set of features reads:
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Blade & Soul, NCSoft's next hotly anticipated title was finally and fully revealed at this year's G-Star exhibition in Korea. Not satisfied with the epic nine minute length of their "Vision" trailer for Aion, Blade & Soul's reveal trailer clocks in at a full 11 minutes in length and shows off the game in all its glory. The trailer reveals four new classes, the Destroyer, the Force Master, the Blade Master, and the Kung Fu Master, as well as four new races, the Gon, the Jin, the Kun, and the Lyn.
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Dominion, the 12th free expansion to EVE Online is scheduled to begin deployment tonight at 6PM PST.
There is a catch, however, to today's announcement. There will be some considerable downtime during the expansion's deployment, as the game is not scheduled to return until Tuesday, December 1st at 1PM.
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Following the culmination of Nick Ebenhoch's Art Direction Dev Diary series, we now have Black Prpophecy's Technical Director Cyrus Preuss to kick off the newest Dev Diary series focused on the technical aspects of the game. The series' debut entry shines some light on the game physics of Black Prophecy.
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Underfoot, the 16th expansion to EverQuest, has been in closed beta testing for a little while now, and today we are glad to report that the NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) is no longer in effect!
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