
Nintendo’s newly announced “Wii U” console is already the subject of controversy – the company has admitted using footage from the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of games in its promotional material, and when confronted over the swindle they lamely point to their discrete “all gameplay images are intended only as illustrations” disclaimer.
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Nintendo has announced the successor to the Wii, dubbed the “Wii U” and due in 2012 – this time the gimmick is a large screen in the controller, together with some much upgraded hardware.
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Busty 3DS schoolgirl beat-em-up Senran Kagura’s preview is even more jiggly than previously thought, coming so packed with bouncing 3D breast physics that overly excited 3DS fans have already proclaimed that “with this the 3DS will last 10 years!”
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A Pokémon collector was apparently so keen to catch ’em all that he forcibly cut the Pokémon off a 6-year-old girl’s clothing with scissors.
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Nintendo is reporting it was hacked two weeks ago with the loss of data it refuses to identify, but that it decided not to bother announcing this fact to customers because “as there was no actual harm, it was not a matter which we needed to announce.”
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Nintendo’s much trumpeted 3DS increasingly has a Virtual Boy air about it, with buzz and sales having subsided rather too quickly for comfort – Japanese asked why it is they haven’t bothered buying it explain why in this survey.
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Solid Snake fans are lamenting the yawning gulf between the highly promising preview images of Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater 3D(S) and the actual gameplay images.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 22, 2011 08:32 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Dead or Alive, Denmark, DS, Fighting Games, Law, Nintendo, Norway, Sweden

Nintendo has cancelled the Scandinavian release of Dead or Alive over concerns that it may fall foul of Sweden’s absurd child pornography laws.
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Nintendo has announced the announcement of a previously unannounced successor console to its hugely successful but now largely moribund Wii.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 24, 2011 23:47 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Marketing, Nintendo, Otaku, PS3, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, Technology, Xbox 360

Japanese gamers discussing what they consider to be the worst tragedy to have befallen the gaming industry agree on an number of unfortunate events it seems.
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The hitherto all but untapped erotic possibilities of the 3DS are finally to be exploited, with the release of demi-eroge Senran Kagura.
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The augmented reality features of the 3DS are as usual being put to unexpectedly good use – in this case in order to give Chihaya the frontage she has always sought.
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