Date archives for June, 2011

June 1st, 2011
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Japanese Gamers Put Off by High Price of 3DS

Are you the same?

3DS had a decent start in Japan but its sales have notably fallen behind the Monster Hunter-powered juggernaut that is the PSP. Japanese survey firm Goo Research quizzed over 1,000 Japanese citizens about why they haven't bought the console yet, with the most common reason simply being "it's too expensive".

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Rumour: 3D Classic Excitebike Free for North America Too

It keeps coming

In Japan, the eShop will launch with Excitebike for free, and it seems the North American shop will follow.

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Memorex Shows Off New Move and Navigation Controllers

Black and blue

We thought we'd have seen third-party Move controllers on sale by now, but Snakebyte's own controllers experienced significant delays to their original January 2011 release date. Now Memorex is gearing up to unveil its own take on the motion controller and Navigation at E3 next week.

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Watch Major Nelson’s Head Tracked by Forza Motorsport 4

Looking good

Turn 10's Forza Motorsport 4 is going to be one of the biggest games of Microsoft's E3 showing next week, and community man Major Nelson recently took the new racer for a spin to show off its Kinect head-tracking capability.

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Rumour: 3DS eShop to Open with 3D Pokedex Application

Looking at monsters from all angles

Nintendo is yet to announce the line-up for the 3DS eShop's launch next week, but according to Nintendo World Report, one of the titles from the Big N will be a 3D Pokédex.

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It's June. This is bad news for E3 as it means it's much closer to getting its arse kicked by me.


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