Arsenal chances of Jovetic deal boosted by dramatic results from Italy
Arsenal's hopes of signing Stevan Jovetic may have taken an unlikely twist this evening.
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Do Games Really Need To Grow Up ?
There is a lot of existential angst going on at the annual DICE summit in Las Vegas this week. In a city not commonly associated with angst, or indeed existentialism, two veteran game developers have delivered speeches in which they berated the industry for its immaturity and homogeneity.
10 Games From the East That Have Changed the West
Japan is a strange place. It is a small island nation that has helped shape the Internet and the world immensely out of proportion with its size and influence.
Wii Mini confirmed: will small mean beautiful for Nintendo ?
It's typical, you wait years for a Nintendo home console launch and then two come along at once.
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Evolution, disruption, annihilation: why 2013 looks like 1983 for consoles
Atari blew it. At the start of the eighties, the manufacturer of the world's best-selling console allowed its market to be flooded with mediocre games, published by reckless and cynical third-parties. Meanwhile, the company over-hyped and over-manufacturered its own monstrosities, the likes of ET and the awful VCS conversion of Pac-Man produced in their multi-millions. Then in 1983, amid other contributing factors, the console industry collapsed.
The Guardian Top 20 Games of 2010: the games that got away
All list features are flawed; the act of curation inevitably means that there will be glaring omissions. And as our Guardian Top 20 games of the year were voted on by eight writers, there was also compromise to contend with.
Flaming heck! Is Fireplacing the dullest game ever?
Earlier this year, Wii announced Fireplacing, a game that would simulate the toastiness of a roaring log fire, and last week footage from it was released. You press a button to load the logs; next, ignite the lighter; burn a pinecone to start it off; and, finally, use the Wii remote to stoke the flames.
Do these figures show that consoles are finally a living room essential?
It used to be that games consoles were for just one thing. Gaming. But ever since the PlayStation 2 shipped with an internet connection and the capacity to play DVDs (Sega's earlier Dreamcast had the former, but not the latter), manufacturers have had their beady eye on the living room. Now it seems, the leading machines have completed their arduous and extremely expensive journey from teen bedroom to family lounge.
Donkey Kong Country Returns – review
For mature gamers such as myself, Donkey Kong Country holds a treasured place; the game that started a memorable Indian summer for arguably the greatest console ever made, the SNES. With the Wii's reputation for quirky and innovative gameplay under new threat from Microsoft's Kinect, could this be the game that rekindles affection for the format?
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