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Nintendo has expanded the Virtual Console on its Nintendo Wii today, adding new arcade services to the platform. Explained Satoru Iwata: "Initailly six classic arcade games will be available in Japan and four in America, Europe and elsewhere. And more and more are coming to the Virutal Console line-up." Space …

Alexey Pajitnov, the original designer and creator of Russian gaming sensation Tetris, is on board as one of the team bringing Tetris to a whole new generation of gamers in the newly revealed Tetris Friends Online Games. Other members of Pajitnov’s team include former Nintendo of America president Minoru Arakawa …

GDC 09: New 360 development kits part of effort to 'reduce the cost of art development'

GDC 09: Free download enables XBLA development in XNA for licensed developers

GDC 09: New hardware doubles memory as platform holder promises to â??reduce risk of developmentâ??

GDC 09: New point release adds avatar and video support

GDC 09: XNA competition starts Monday, April 6th

GDC 09: Tool prices reduced, new software introduced and UK-made PhyreEngine is updated

Ahead of the release of Nintendo’s third iteration of its popular dual screen handheld the DSi next month, GameStop’s senior VP of merchandising Bob McKenzie has said that the global games retailer has seen pre-orders for the device trump those seen for the original DS. We’ve seen some pretty brisk …

Pong creator looks to the coming years at open Q&A