
A ranking of the Japanese games which received the most critical acclaim overseas in 2009 seems to indicate the industry is increasingly capable of delivering only handheld games of any great quality, not that this necessarily means bad sales…
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A ranking of the most pirated games of 2009 provides a measure of popularity of sorts, and seems to demonstrate that the misgivings publishers have about piracy rates on the PC are not all froth after all.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Dec 28, 2009 18:16 JST
- Tags: Dragon Quest, DS, Nintendo, Pokemon, PS3, PSP, Rankings, RPG, Wii

The 30 top selling games of 2009 amply demonstrate the Japanese market continues to revolve around Nintendo, RPGs and the occasional dash of Sony, with precious little in the way of originality or novelty on display, not that these games are necessarily bad.
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Medical research appears to have confirmed that Wii Fit and other “sports” games offering apparent physical exertion actually have no positive effect on fitness at all.
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Fans of Tales of Graces have been pained to discover the title has dozens of bugs, some severe enough to crash the console and other locking players out of various parts of the game; with the game being released on the Wii, which lacks any hard drive, the impact is doubly severe as no patches will be forthcoming.
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Excessively diligent investigators maintain they have proven that the recently released Tales of Graces has a missing character, which is of course exactly what happened with the Xbox 360 beta version of Tales of Vesperia and its eventual perfect PS3 version.
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Amazon.co.jp has revealed its top selling games of 2009 (minus Final Fantasy XIII), and the result seems to confirm the expected carve up of the market between RPGs and casual games, and the PS3/PSP and Wii/DS…
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The latest Japanese console sales figures for the end of November seem to demonstrate some very healthy sales for Nintendo, as well as an embarassment for Sony with the PSP Go now slipping below even the Xbox 360’s dismal sales…
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China’s unique grasp of intellectual property once again courts controversy with the allegations that “Dinosaur Planet” in fact heavily plagiarises Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy, for the Wii.
Decide for yourself in the below videos:
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Sony has announced that the PS3 will be getting full support for stereoscopic 3D glasses in a free firmware update.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 17, 2009 13:37 JST
- Tags: Marketing, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Rankings, Sony, Technology, Wii, Xbox 360

Aging hardware and a severe lack of quality titles have led to the Wii’s eighth consecutive month of shrinking sales, with US sales now down 37% on a year earlier, even as certain competing consoles enjoy record sales.
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Sony’s product marketing vice president Scott Steinberg has been busy rubbishing Sony’s competitors as being “dated, dead, dumb terminals,” for whom he has “bad news” in the form of a resurgent PS3…
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