Ratings aggregation site Metacritic has released its first annual “Game Platform Power Rankings,” which calculates the scores of each of the six most popular platforms’ top selling software. The Playstation 3 came forth as 2009’s big winner, with the Nintendo Wii grabbing last place (it should be noted, however, that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 had the […]
Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony each spend some time spinning the sales of the recently released November NPD sales data. Despite an overall decrease of 8% from last year, each console maker had a positive thing to say for their own numbers. Nintendo’s hardware sales total above 3 million between Wii and DS sales, the latter […]
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. Mario’s basic formula has remained practically unchanged for nearly 30 years, but with the monumental success it has received, it’s hard to fault for Nintendo for going with what works. New Super Mario Brothers Wii has become the latest Wii game to set a region record in Japan, […]
A piece of news that is sure to shock and sadden Silent Hill fans everywhere, Akira Yamaoka (the series composer) is leaving Konami. The news was leaked by Helldecent.com (a Silent Hill fan site) yesterday. Akira is moving on to pursue “possible solo projects”, exactly what he’ll be working on isn’t known.