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From NextGen Nintendo has contested a 149.1 million euro ($232 million) fine it received from EU regulators in 2002 for price fixing. Nintendo said that the fine, which it received for colluding with seven distributors to raise prices of games and consoles between 1991 and 1998, was one of the biggest single fines in EU competition law. "The penalty was unfair, illegal, even shocking," Ian Forrester, a lawyer for Nintendo, told the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg on Monday...
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Interesting article originally sourced at SFgate Laurent Detoc, North American president of Ubisoft is quoted as saying that "Ubisoft is committed to growing internally and is not necessarily going to follow in the footsteps of its bigger rivals of Electronic Arts and Activision", which both announced plans to grow through acquisitions and mergers. Activision is planning on merging with Vivendi Games while EA is pursuing an unsolicited bid of Take-Two Interactive Software. "I don't...
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Conduit. You may have heard about it. Not long ago High Voltage released some wonderful ideas about a FPS that they had for the Wii. Oddly enough nobody jumped at the idea. Until IGN jumped in and showed the world what it could be. Less than a month later in game trailers are being released of what looks like a "Rainbow 6 Vs Halo 2 Vs Black" best of the best from the old xbox. Some would say "that's old school", I say "Old School is Cool" Especially when it's...
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Great video showing off the abilities of the Playstation Eye and the way it integrates with upcoming puzzle game for the PS3, LittleBigPlanet. It's very clever how you can throw in pics of yourself taken with the Eye to use with the game and help you out along the way. It adds an interesting twist to the genre and may even provide a level of longevity unseen before.
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Pop into the Wii Shop and you will now have access to a handful of Wii Ware titles they include the following: Dr. Mario & Germ Buster 1000 points Final Fantasy: My Life as a King 1500 p Lost Winds 1000 p Star Soldier R 800 p Toki Tori Take 2 900 p TV Show King 1000 p Personally I'm not keen on a Final Fantasy version of 'The Sims' but could get a bit of play out of a tweaked Dr. Mario. I can hear the music in my head now...
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PS3 gamers waiting to get their hands on the exclusive DLC that the Xbox 360 has for GTA IV better exhale now as it's not forseeable in the near future. Microsoft apparently paid the big bucks for the exclusive rights for the downloadable content for their machine. Big bucks to the tune of 50 million big ones, that's nothing to sneeze or laugh about. Having said that though, other possible downloads for the PS3 may include new cars and weapons which is better than nothing and should be gratis...