It’s brief, it’s gaming news, it’s gaming news in brief:
- New Super Mario Bros for the Wii outsold the combined sales of Modern Warfare 2 in America during December. This information is from the statistics of the North American market research company the NPD Group.
Mario shifted 2.82m copies whereas Modern Warfare only managed 2.75m. An impressive victory for the stout plumber and friends that will no doubt leave the Nintendo executives very happy.
- Google Android Market, the main competitor to the iStore in the mobile world, has ran into rebellion from game developers because of a bizarre rule. If a customer purchases an app from the market that is worth less than £7 on their credit card and then questions the charge on their bill… Google will refund them the money.
However this is not the cause of the rebellion, the rebellion comes from Google also charging the developer a £5 fee if the card holder queries the purchase.
This has led to Russian mobile game company HeroCraft offering the games directly from their WAP site and bypassing the market, an option other developers may choose to follow.
- The U.K had it’s release date confirmed for the Dsi XL as March 5th 2010. Some cheered, I let out a slight sigh at the constant tinkering of Nintendo handhelds that seem to always get money out of the consumer.
- I Am Alive, the highly promising yet very allusive survival game from Ubisoft has been the first major casualty of the year, being pushed back in 2011.
- Gran Turismo 5 has been delayed even more.. “it better be amazing” thinks every Playstation owner.
I am working on something for the site at the moment and have had a few problems with it. Once I get into the swing of things I will be able to start pumping out the news far more regularly and may very well begin a “report as it happens” style, but that shall only occur once I’ve tried other avenues.
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