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How much Wii’ing do you do?

What is the most played game on the Nintendo Wii, Statistics exposed by Nintendo reveal the most popular games and how long Wii owners spend playing them.

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Xbox 360 maxed out by Red Faction: Guerrilla

Call it bad programming, or good hype building, Rick White, producer of the upcoming Red Faction: Guerrilla believes developers have reached the hardware limits of the Xbox 360 gaming...

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Nintendo wave wand to increase Motion Plus order

Predicting strong demand, despite the global financial woes, Nintendo have upped their shipment order for the Wii Motion Plus peripheral.

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Video games: Men just want to dominate

With no gladiatorial contests and a general softening of sport in the modern world, where else can men live out their need to stomp on their fellow human beings but...

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Video download service for the Nintendo Wii

In a merry Christmas announcement, Nintendo are teaming up with a video download service for the Wii game console.

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Sony still losing on PS3

Costs are way down on what they were when the PS3 was first released, but Sony, two years later, are still losing money on each PS3 sold.

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Be careful how you Wii over Christmas, fat boy

Doctors are predicting that the number of 'Wii Knee' injuries caused by games consoles could rise over the holiday period. Lazy gits are apparently most at risk.

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Aussies set new high score in video game spending

Last week was a big one for the Australian video game consumer, breaking spending records in the lead up to the gift giving season. In other news, Microsoft have...

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Dumbass Xbox thief no match for smart Xbox owner

What would you do if your Xbox 360 was stolen? Giving up on ever seeing his games console again was not an option for one student who suffered such a...

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Nintendo DS Scrabble beats 8 year old using swears

She thought it would help her eight year old with his vocabulary, but this mother was not expecting a game of Scrabble on the DS to expand his word knowledge...

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Wii obliterates opposition in November

The Nintendo Wii continues to set new sales records over rivals Microsoft and Sony. Despite pinning hopes on overtaking Nintendo with Black Friday thanksgiving sales, both Microsoft and Sony...

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Xbox man slags off PS3, oh the irony

File under: no surprise there then. However, it wasn't that fact that a Microsoft man was slagging off the Sony PS3 just before Xmas that caught my attention, but the...

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PlayStation Home beta goes open at last

It's been a long time coming, but Sony is finally opening the beta version of the PlayStation Home social gaming community to the public. As long as you live in...

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Microsoft claims Black Friday victory over Sony

Microsoft has claimed a three-to-one Black Friday weekend victory for Xbox 360 over PlayStation 3. If the figures prove to be correct, Sony's expensive console could be in for a...

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Nintendo Wii and Ugg Boots lead Black Friday sales

What financial crisis? The Wii dominates the Black Friday sales weekend.

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More Xbox 360 price cuts

Microsoft sees this Christmas as a battleground fought at the retail till. The Xbox 360 has had another cross the board price decrease in Australia and New Zealand.

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Qualify for FIFA Interactive World Cup at eGames Expo

The eGames Expo as part of the International Digital Entertainment Festival in Melbourne will be the place for budding FIFA 09 players to strut their stuff. At stake is...

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Pokémon Darkrai rises on Nintendo DS at Toys-R-Us and Target

The way of Pokémon is to “catch them all” and soon Australian Nintendo DS gamers will be able to catch the brand new pocket monster Darkrai for free at two...

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Xbox 360 Red Rings of Death land Microsoft in court

This is the story that just will not go away. Microsoft has been sued for violation of consumer protection laws for continuing to sell the Xbox 360 despite being aware...

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Xbox 360 construction in LEGO City

If you like those strangely amusing and compelling Xbox games that feature LEGO versions of Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones and Batman then you'll love the Xbox 360 Gaming Zone that...

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