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Following the announcement that Nintendo will launch the Wii Motion Plus add-on on Friday June 12th, and UK retailers have finally been contacted regarding trade prices and availability. The peripheral has appeared on some online portals at 24.99 – more than the expected $20 retail price that has been touted …

Over two years after its UK debut and after no end of shortages, Nintendo’s Wii has now reached a level of open availability for UK retailers. Koch has told Nindie.com retailers that Wii hardware, which includes Wii Sports, is now freely available and will no longer be restricted to purchase …

Cult RPG developer Nippon Ichi has signed a deal with publisher Koei that gives the company the exclusive rights to distribute its titles in the UK. The first games to appear as a result of the agreement will be Ar Tonelico 2: Melody of the Metafalica on PS2 (May 29th), …

inFamous, one of Sony’s major 2009 PS3-exclusive releases, will arrive at UK retail on May 29th, MCV can confirm. Developed by Sucker Punch, inFamous takes a similar approach to the free-roaming sandbox Grand Theft Auto mechanic as was seen in Realtime Worlds’ Crackdown – granting the player super-human abilities with …

Wii Fit is this week enjoying its fourth straight week at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, taking its total tally of number ones to 13. In capturing the crown yet again it successfully fends off Atari’s The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena, which …

Disgruntled HD-DVD customers in the US are being offered the chance to modernise their film collection thanks to Warner and a new scheme entitled Red2Blu, Home Cinema Choice reports. Owners of HD-DVD discs will be able to mail up to 25 sleeve inserts to Warner, who will in turn send …

National entertainment retailer HMV is the star games performer in a new comparison of the nation’s leading retail websites, according to survey conductor The Retail Bulletin. HMV was one of the star performers, with the technical performance and functionality improvements seen on its website seeing it jump 49 places to …

As part of its full year financial results posting earlier today, retailer GAME has dished out the numbers on UK lifetime sales of all today’s gaming platforms. It’s the DS that leads the pack, unsurprisingly, with total lifetime sales of 8.8m units. Next in line is its home console cousin …

GAME Group has posted encouraging gains in both turnover and profit during its preliminary results for the year ended 31 January 2009. Group turnover reached 1.97bn for the period, an impressive 32 per cent gain on the 1.49bn achieved in the same period last year. At the same time the …

It has been known for a while that the upcoming duo of EA Grand Slam Sports Tennis and Tiger Woods 10 will support Nintendo’s gesture-enhancing Wii MotionPlus, but now the publisher has confirmed that both titles will include the device in the box. Both SKUs including the MotionPlus will retail …