Prince Edward Island Studio Begins Legacy of High-Quality Award-Winning Games with its First TitleOther Ocean Interactive Wins Xbox Live Arcade Awards for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (GameInfoWire)

The technology company Microsoft has announced that its online Xbox Live Video Marketplace will offer a high-definition version of Funimation ’s five-episode Afro Samurai series, starring Samuel L. Jackson as the voice of the main character, next month.Free Bakugan #1 on iTunes; HD Afro Samurai on Xbox Live (Anime News Network)

DICE’s new first-person action game won’t offer any guns, but you’ll be able to run up walls. Sounds like a fair trade.Mirror’s Edge First Look [Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 PC] (GameSpot)

For every game that sells millions of copies and gets gushing reviews, there are a lot more that never enjoy epic…Finding their own little piece of Xbox (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Microsoft Corp. said it will stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba Corp. ceded the high-definition video format battle to Sony Corp.’s Blu-ray.No more HD DVD players for Xbox 360 (ABC 7 Chicago)

Xbox 360 - Anl??sslich der Game Developers Conference 2008 in San Francisco ver??ffentlichte Microsoft frisches Bildmaterial und Infos zum exklusiven Xbox 360 Rollenspiel Fable 2, welches noch dieses Jahr erscheinen wird. So wurde bekannt gegeben, dass der Titel …360 - GDC: Frische Screens & Infos zu Fable 2 f??r Xbox 360 (Gaming-Universe)

The technology company Microsoft has announced that its online Xbox Live Video Marketplace will offer a high-definition version of Funimation ’s five-episode Afro Samurai series, starring Samuel L. Jackson as the voice of the main character, next month.Free Bakugan #1 on iTunes; HD Afro Samurai on Xbox Live (Anime News Network)

Eidos Interactive (Hitman, Deus Ex) has announced Battlestations: Pacific, a sequel to 2007’s BattleStations: Midway, will be available for Xbox 360 and PC. The action-strategy game features both U.S. and Japanese single-player campaigns that cover battles from WWII history. Both campaigns feature over 28 story missions and 21 new units, including kamikaze and other WWII jets and units. It …Eidos Announces Battlestations: Pacific For Xbox 360, PC (Gamasutra)

This short adventure game nails the feel of both the show and the island on which it’s set, but struggles with some of the characters.Lost: Via Domus Review [PlayStation 3 PC Xbox 360] (GameSpot)

For every game that sells millions of copies and gets gushing reviews, there are a lot more that never enjoy epic…Finding their own little piece of Xbox (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

If 2006 was the year of the Xbox 360 and 2007 was the year of the Wii, 2008 is shaping up to be PlayStation 3’s turn in the spotlight, as it stokes demand with some hotly awaited game titles.Sony’s PS3 Poised To Grab Limelight This Year (InformationWeek)

Analyst Opinion - The gaming market is in a real mess right now. We have 4 active game systems the Nintendo Wii, the Xbox 360, the PS3, and, not to forget, the PS2, which outsold all of the others last year. On the PC side, we have Windows XP games, Windows Vista Games, Flash-based games, and some folks are still porting to the Mac.What If Google Did Video Games? (Tom’s Hardware Guide)

Eidos Interactive (Hitman, Deus Ex) has announced Battlestations: Pacific, a sequel to 2007’s BattleStations: Midway, will be available for Xbox 360 and PC. The action-strategy game features both U.S. and Japanese single-player campaigns that cover battles from WWII history. Both campaigns feature over 28 story missions and 21 new units, including kamikaze and other WWII jets and units. It …Eidos Announces Battlestations: Pacific For Xbox 360, PC (Gamasutra)

Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Wii hardware top the charts yet again.NEWS: Japanese Weekly Software and Hardware Charts for Feb. 18-24 (Nintendo World Report)

Region-free kit on sale now. If you would like to comment on this article, then you must be logged in! Get involved with Eurogamer’s community portal, including reader reviews, personal game collections, private discussion groups, Xbox Live gamertag integration and tons more.Wii FreeLoader emerges by Tom Bramwell (EuroGamer)

Some hardcore video gamers laughed when Nintendo introduced the prototype of its next-generation video game console, the Wii, in 2005. Nintendo, long the whipping boy of geeks and other gaming aficionados, has almost always been considered a cartoon in a world of high art.Wii helps older gamers stay active - Video game system a staple at many parties (Missoulian)

Wii’s lead over PlayStation 3 continues to widen in Japan, with 330,000 Wii consoles sold in four weeks, says Enterbrain. Nintendo’s Wii game console outsold Sony’s PlayStation 3 nearly 4-to-1 in Japan in February as Wii software titles dominated the best seller list, a game magazine publisher said….Nintendo Wii outsells PS3 4-to-1 in Japan (ZDNet)

Nintendo Co Ltd’s (7974.OS) Wii game console outsold Sony Corp’s (6758.T) PlayStation 3 nearly 4-to-1 in Japan in February as Wii software titles dominated the best seller list, a game magazine publisher said.Nintendo Wii outsells PS3 4-to-1 in Japan (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

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Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime made an intriguing acknowledgment last week. “I do believe we’ll get some negative feedback,” said Fils-Aime, talking about the way the upcoming Wii Fit game will inform people that they’re considered obese.Wii Fit’s weight problem (San Jose Mercury News)

Nintendo president says Wii sales to surpass those of Xbox 360 soonNintendo: Wii Will Rock Xbox 360 in US by June (Spong)

Bill Thompson on new uses for Nintendo’s in-demand consoles.Playing with the Wii (BBC News)

Nintendo has announced that it will begin charging Wii gamers for some of its online offerings. Called the Wi-Fi Connection Pay and Play, the service will feature red stickers on the titles that users must pay to play online. A pricing plan has not been released but Nintendo said that gamers could pay for titles using Wii points, the consoles virtual currency. read more …Nintendo Wii To Launch Pay Service (WebProNews)

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NINTENDO SYSTEMS regained their market dominance over the other videogame formats in Japan last week, with the news that the Wii still sits at the top of the hardware sales chart, with the DS replacing the Playstation Portable at number two.Xbox 360 HD-DVD dies along with format (The Inquirer)

What does “Rez HD” creator Tetsuyah Mizuguchi dream about? “Sometimes I’m playing my games in my brain,” he tells GameFile at the DICE gaming summit.Xbox 360’s ‘Rez HD’: What Does Cult Game’s Creator Dream About?, In GameFile (MTV Music Television)

Nintendo’s Wii console, which has been outselling other formats all over the world in the past year or so, should pass the total installed base in the US of the Xbox 360 by June.Wii to pass Xbox 360 by June in US (gamesindustry.biz)

Bill Thompson on how the Wii is controlling more than the games market these days.New Wii craze is opening up (BBC News)