Entries in 'family' (16)
Sony aims to win over families with new PS3
Sony wants to capture the lucrative family market with its new 12GB PlayStation 3.
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Retail Previews in UK RETAIL Sponsored by Gioteck
Nintendo proved that board games can translate well into video games way back in 1999 with the original Mario Party. Now it has teamed up with fellow Japanese publishing giant ...
Family Trainer: Magical Carnival
Retail Previews in UK RETAIL Sponsored by Gioteck
Having taken families on calorie-burning adventures in Outdoor Challenge, Extreme Challenge and Treasure Adventure, the motion-sensing Family Trainer series returns in Magical Carnival.
INTERVIEW: Martin Good, THQ
For all its focus on core gaming, THQ still has a very successful and growing kids, family and casual business. Christopher Dring quizzes the division’s executive vice president Martin Good ...
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Rare: ‘Kinect will go beyond casual games’
Kinect’s launch line-up provides no foretoken to the wild ideas that the peripheral will provide in the future, a tech executive at Rare believes.
Xbox Live gets family friendly
A subtle revamp of the Xbox interface will help Microsoft further its reach into mainstream and family audiences.
Kinect paves way for ‘expansion beyond the core’
On the face of it Microsoft’s £129.99 RRP for Kinect suggests that the company may not be chasing the family market so much as striving to further monetise its existing ...
GAME: Kinect ‘excites’ customers
Leading games retailer GAME has unsurprisingly welcomed Microsoft’s announcement that it is aiming high by giving the Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect a high-end RRP of £129.99 in the UK ...
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Activision targets families this Xmas
Activision Blizzard is currently touring Britain’s hottest retail locations to raise awareness of its family-orientated Christmas line-up.
Bilbo and Sauron getting casual makeover
The large-scale brawls of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy may have to date proved more suited to button-bashing console brawlers, but Warner is hoping to win over ...
Namco Bandai announces new Family Trainer
Publisher Namco Bandai is to release a second instalment to its Family Trainer franchise on Wii this autumn in the UK.
THQ reveals plan to better Big Beach Sports success
THQ is plotting to become the king of Wii mini-game collections with the follow-up to last year’s mass-selling BIG Beach Sports.
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New family gaming guide arrives online
The Association of Family Gamers has revealed a brand new website aiming to information and support about safe gaming that families can enjoy together.
Gaming is the “new family time”
A new report entitled Media Democracy from research firm Deloitte claims that gaming is no longer a popular pursuit for just lonely teens, and has now become a significant family ...
EA announces branded XBLA Channel
EA and Hasbro have announced that they are to launch a branded channel on Xbox Live Arcade under the Hasbro Family Games Night banner.
EA next to enter Wii fitness market
Just one day after Koch-owned publisher Deep Silver announced it’s own competitor in a marketplace already catered to by the likes of Nintendo’s Wii Fit and Atari’s Family Trainer, EA ...
