Soon after Nintendo announced its plans to ramp up production of the DS Lite a few days ago, their redesigned console finally reached US shores (and retail stores). Some reports claim that the street date was broken by several retailers on Saturday, June 10th - and even earlier than that, according to others - however (...)

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Since today looks like a pretty slow news day, we might as well go back to one of last week's most interesting reports, coming from Kotaku. You may have come across some recent statements made by Sony bosses Harrison and Kutaragi, describing the PlayStation 3 not as a console, but more as a "computer" (...)

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Duke Nukem Forever & S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Rumour Control // UPDATE

There's been a lot of commotion these past few days, over that $500,000 bonus offered to developer 3D Realms (by Take Two), should Duke Nukem Forever be released by the end of 2006. We have GameSpot to "thank" for that, as their recent story not only managed to dig up a fact that's been known for more than four months (...)

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Football Manager 2007 Season Beginning This Christmas

SEGA is said to have paid over $50 million for the acquisition of British developer Sports Interactive a couple of months ago, so it was only natural that they'd announce the next step in the Collyer brothers' football managment series - predictibly titled Football Manager 2007. Packed full with more than 100 new features, (...)

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Ninety-Nine Nights Launching In August With 'Mature' Rating

Having already set upon Asian retail stores earlier this year, Phantagram and Q Entertainment's epic fantasy game Ninety-Nine Nights will soon make its way to the US, as Microsoft announced it will release this Xbox 360 exclusive game in August 2006, under its abridged "N3" title. Featuring a sweeping story, stunning graphics (...)

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More Fullmetal Alchemist Games Coming To North America

Having already spawned a bunch of RPGs and Action games on the PlayStation 2, GBA and DS in the past couple of years, Fullmetal Alchemist is bound to make a comeback in North America later this year, as a new line of video games. Destineer announced a licensing arrangement (...)

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Turbine's plans to bring more solo-oriented content into Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach have been known ever since last month, when they announced some of the features (including the new Drow race) contained in the game's second module, Twilight Forge. Now they are revealing more details about the solo-play options, (...)

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New Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter Content Detailed

Ubisoft is the next in line to take advantage of the Xbox 360's Live delivery service, for expanding their recent Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter tactical shooter with additional content. The upcoming premium downloadable content package, scheduled for release at the end of June, is to bring the second chapter of the co-op campaign, (...)

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Wii Round Up: Classics Priced Below 10$, DS Connectivity

Nintendo already told us that we'd have to wait until September to find out what the final price and release date will be for their Wii console, but in the meantime there's plenty of other things they can talk about. Take for instance Nintendo's massive catalogue of classic games (coupled with Sega's, among others) (...)

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ESA Sues Minnesota Over Unconstitutional Games Law // UPDATE

There have been quite a few games legislation bills proposed in the US lately, and what they all have in common is that, so far, they were all slaughtered by the Entertainment Software Association's irrefutable appeals regarding the constitutionally of any such law. But since there's no end to a politician's lust for popularity, (...)

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