Game Industry Hopes Cyber Monday Jump-Starts Sales

by Doug Desjardins Up until 2008, the video-game industry seemed immune to economic downturns, riding out every slump and recession on the strength of a fan base that always found money to spend on new games and consoles. But The Great Recession that began in December 2007 changed that, and now the industry is hoping for a 2009 holiday rebound. And it’s a rebound that’s likely to begin on Cyber Monday when manufacturers and retailers post sales and promotions. Most game-console manufactur

How To Play Backups In Your Wii

Author: MrTetif | Posted in Games | How To Play Backups In Your WiiWithout the mod chipIf you are the owner of a Wii console and you don’t have the money to pay someone to install the mod chip into your Wii but you, still, want to play backup Wii games and play them in your Wii without losing the warranty. Well, there’s a solution and it’s called Homebrew Ware.Homebrew Ware it`s a software that installs a channel inside the home page of your Wii and let’s you play homebrew applications and backu

Final Fantasy (Finally) Comes to Virtual Console

Another monday means another update from Nintendo, and this week may have one of the more significant moves for the Virtual Console lately. As promised at the Game Developers Conference months ago, the original Final Fantasy is now available for the Virtual Console for 500 Wii Points ($5). Square Enix has seemed hesitant to release its most popular franchise to the service, especially since the company has been making plenty of money repackaging and updating them for compilations and portabl

Nintendo Wii price cut confirmed, MotionPlus added

If you’re looking to get your mitts on Nintendo’s motiontastic Wii console then you should probably put your impulsiveness on hold and wait until next Friday, as that’s when Mario’s parents will be pushing out a price cut. And that’s not all you’ll get, read on for more. It looks like we’ll have to wait a week longer than the expected price snip in the States, but in return we’ll get a lot more for our money. According to MCV, the trade price of the console will drop on 2 October but

Nintendo Wii price cut this Friday

Nintendo will announce a Wii price cut this Friday, 25 September, if internal memos from a giant US retailer are on the money. The move would see a drop to $199 Stateside, making it £150 here in Blighty. Want more on this cheap slice of console loveliness? Then keep reading. A memo to staff at US gadget megastore Best Buy reckons the much–hyped Wii price cut is coming this week. The note says workers shouldn’t discuss plans until, “Nintendo makes their official announcement on Friday Sept 2

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