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Wii | 10 million-plus Wiis sold in Japan

Famitsu publisher Enterbrain says Nintendo’s console has sold 289,736 units in two months in the island nation. The month of January ended with Nintendo announcing it had shipped 67.45 million Wiis worldwide as of December 31, 2009

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Four-day TGS 2010 confirmed, biz forum revealed

Organizing body CESA hoping to supersize Sept. 16-19 by adding high-level business summit, actively courting tourists from across Asia

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PC | NCAA Basketball, Rock Band, Dead Space 2 PC missing from EA schedule

Annual college hoops game, rhythm series, and Windows version of outer-space horror game all missing from Electronic Arts’ 2011 release calendar; company mum on status. Earlier today, Electronic Arts revealed its 2011 fiscal year calendar as part of its quarterly earnings report .

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PC | January US game software sales down 4%, predicts Pachter

Wedbush analyst foresees holiday holdovers and newcomers Darksiders and Mass Effect 2 as top games; hardware sales pegged as dropping 1%, Wii on top…again. This Thursday, the NPD Group is expected to issue its report for US game sales for the month of January.

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PC | Fugitive’s WOW habit leads to arrest

Blizzard helps US Marshals, Mounties track down wanted drug dealer who played MMORPG while on the run in Canada. Get the full article at GameSpot ” PC | Fugitive’s WOW habit leads to arrest ” was posted by Tor Thorsen on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:00:06 -0800

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Xbox 360 | Microsoft patents muscle-control tech

Dual USPTO filings show Xbox 360 maker is looking into wearable controllers activated by muscles’ electrical signals; Guitar Hero shown in demo video. Although Project Natal likely won’t be released until later in the year, Microsoft is already looking into new gaming control schemes. Tech blog TechFlash has spotted two US Patent and Trademark Office applications that may go one step further than the controller-less, camera-based motion-sensing system–by directly reading electric impulses from gamers’ muscles.

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Xbox 360 | Datel suing Microsoft over memory-unit lockout

British maker of high-capacity, low-price storage units takes legal action against software giant, accusing it of antitrust violation. In October, Microsoft revealed that the fall Xbox Live Update would lock out what director of programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb termed ” unauthorized Memory Units .” Though not mentioned by name, the company most affected by the move was Datel, which sells Xbox 360 Memory Units with both higher capacities and lower prices than those made by Microsoft

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PC | Modern Warfare 2 censored in Russia?

Daisy chain of online reports indicates that latest Call of Duty has been recalled in Eastern European country due to airport massacre scene. Get the full article at GameSpot ” PC | Modern Warfare 2 censored in Russia? ” was posted by Tor Thorsen on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:40:02 -0800

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Xbox 360 | Modern Warfare 2 censored in Russia?

[UPDATE] Online reports indicate latest Call of Duty was recalled in Eastern European country; Activision says PC version was released minus airport massacre scene. Get the full article at GameSpot ” Xbox 360 | Modern Warfare 2 censored in Russia? ” was posted by Tor Thorsen on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:40:02 -0800

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Xbox 360 | Borderlands DLC drops Nov. 24 on PS3, 360

The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned arrives Thanksgiving week, will be “first in a series” of updates to Gearbox and 2K’s “role-playing shooter”; PC date TBA.

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