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We cover the whole week’s news in the world of video games. This week we’ve gotten Sam & Anthony to ramble on about this week’s issues from the masses of information from the big 3 given to us at GDC to the smaller announcements like, oh lets say… Metal Gear Solid 4 release dates. [...]

 
Microsoft’s GDC keynote speaker, John Schappert, says that Xbox 360 has now sold more than 18 million units worldwide. Although still lagging behind the Wii’s 21 and a half million, but still a firm second in terms of sales.

Keep on top of the consoles sales at http://www.vgchartz.com/

Today, Microsoft announced the new Community Games project that offers a chance for XNA creators to get their game published on Xbox Live. After the GDC Conference we where informed that 7 trails were available on the Xbox Marketplace today. So I took a look at whats on offer.
First thing of note is the weird [...]

It is true that we expected this and its true that a press leak annouced Gears of War 2 before the announcement actually happened but now its Official, more so.
We didn’t see much from the game but we now know that its coming in November 2008. Oh and its Xbox 360 exclusive, in case you [...]

Recently big name, game creator, Peter Molyneux talked about his next game Fable 2. Instead of complaining about how much of this will actually be in the final game, I’ll just tell you.
The first announcement was of an XBLA game that will work with Fable 2. Named Keysto, it is a pub style game, described [...]

Microsoft’s own Chris Satchell has just announced at Microsoft’s own GDC Press Conference that XNA games will be available to the public through Xbox Live.
The XNA games will go through a tough filter process before general users of Live get to play them. So don’t be expecting a Super Smash Bros Clone with every game [...]

Recent announcements make me a bit skeptical about the rest of the year for the Nintendo Wii with arguably the top three most wanted games all coming in the first half of the year. It makes you wonder what else they have planned for Xmas 08.
The other project Nintendo have been working on is WiiWare [...]

Recently Nintendo bosses announced that Mario Kart Wii was to be released in Japan on April the 10th and in a suprising move Europe are set to get the game a day later on April the 11th. Yet to get a set in stone American date the rumors are currently April 28th.
This combined with Wii [...]

Today Nintendo annouced details that the European region will get the Nintendo Wii’s next must have peripheral, Wii Fit, nearly a month before America. Wii Fit has been dated for April 25th for Europe meanwhile America get it May 19th. Although this doesn’t make up for year and years of getting games months later [...]