UK software sales (Week ending 9/19)
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– 1 NEED FOR SPEED: SHIFT SLIGHTLY MAD STUDIOS EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
1 2 GUITAR HERO 5 NEVERSOFT REDOCTANE ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
2 3 COLIN MCRAE: DIRT 2 CODEMASTERS CODEMASTERS CODEMASTERS
3 4 BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM ROCKSTEADY STUDIOS EIDOS EIDOS
6 5 WII SPORTS RESORT NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO
– 6 WET A2M BETHESDA SOFTWORKS BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
4 7 THE BEATLES: ROCK BAND HARMONIX EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
8 8 CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE INFINITY WARD ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
5 9 WII FIT NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO
11 10 TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 10 EA TIBURON EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
Nintendo Download: Toppling Cubes, 3-D Characters and Classic Ninja Kicks Lead a Stellar Lineup
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Beware of falling objects and soaring imaginations with this week’s new downloadable game offerings from Nintendo. The WiiWare™ service welcomes the precarious puzzle action of You, Me, and the Cubes™ and the court-storming antics of Family Tennis. Commodore 64 favorite Last Ninja 2 arrives on the Virtual Console™, pushing players to heroic heights in a classic martial-arts adventure. Nintendo DSiWare™ users can let the chips fall where they may with Clubhouse Games™ Express: Strategy Pack or create imaginative pictures with MySims™ Camera. Another heads-up for Nintendo DSi fans: Consumers can still receive 1,000 bonus Nintendo DSi Points™ by purchasing a new Nintendo DSi™ game system and connecting to the Nintendo DSi Shop by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Oct. 5, 2009. For full offer details, please visit DSiOffer.Nintendo.com.
ESRB updates
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Airport Mania: First Flight (Wii) – E
Christmas Clix (Wii) – E
Jurassic: The Hunted (Wii) – T
Montessori Music (DS) – E
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey (Wii) – E
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (Wii) – M
Sushi Go Round (DS) – E
Magagascar Kartz (Wii) – E
Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2010 (Wii) – E
Hotel Giant DS (DS) – E
iCarly (Wii) – E
Eat! Fat! FIGHT! (Wii) – E10+
Extreme Hangman (DSi) – E10+
Final Fantasy (Wii) – E
Jewel Master Egypt (DS) – E
Cake Mania 3 (DS) – E
My Hero: Astronaut (DS) – E10+
Ni Hao Kai-lan Super Game Day (Wii) – E
World Cup of Pool (DS) – E
Puzzle Chronicles (DS) – E10+
Shaun White Snowboarding World Stage (Wii) – E
Hands On! Tangrams (DS) – E
Fast Draw Showdown (Wii) – T
System Flaw (DSi) – E
Viking Invasion (DSi) – E
GoldenEye 007 for Wii VC, XBLA “long past the stage where an agreement was on the cards”
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Last year, there was a whole lot of news concerning GoldenEye for the Wii Virtual Console and Xbox Live Arcade. Initially, sources told EGM magazine that Nintendo and Microsoft were unable to reach an agreement when financial terms were being discussed. Then Rare spoke up and said that liscensing issues prevented the game’s re-release. Last but not least, an Activision source later ultimately placed blame on Nintendo as one of the reasons for the game never seeing the light of day.
Sadly, it doesn’t look like things will be changing any time soon. Rare addressed a bunch of topics in its most recent Scribes update and one reader question brought up was whether GoldenEye could launch on the Wii/360 and if an agreement can be reached. Rare’s response is below.
“That was some time ago, my friend. Fate was against us that day. Destiny conspired to raise the hurdles even as we attempted to clear them, resulting in unpleasant groinal injury. I suspect we’re long past the stage where an agreement was on the cards, but you never know. Stranger things have happened… somewhere… probably.”
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles scan
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Someone at GAME made a big boo-boo
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Cammie Dunaway will be forever known for her E3 2008 performance, when she participated in a demo of Shaun White Snowboarding on stage. Between the story about her broken wrist and her Balance Board performance, that whole portion of Nintendo’s E3 conference became a running joke of sorts.
Someone over at GAME (a giant UK retailer) must have recalled what happened at E3 last year. As you can see from the boxart above, the image features a significant blunder. No, Cammie Dunaway is not in Shaun White Snowboarding 2. You have to wonder how that modified version of the boxart managed to slip through on to GAME’s website!
