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Before a game is finally ready for release, the developers of the game have to do a lot of research. Same was the case of the developers of Rainbow Studios, the THQ owned development house which developed Deadly Creatures. The developers regularly handled scorpions and spiders, brought them to the office and studied them. One of the developers was even stung by a scorpion. Infact apart from handling them they also ate some of them.

The game’s lead designer, Jordan Itkowitz said mentioned about a Mexican restaurant in Phoenix that served Chapulinas, which are fried grasshoppers. He shared his experience of tasting some of the insects ranging from Thai water beetles to fried mealworm larvae and stated that if eating bugs was a part of their job than they should be paid much more than the owner of the game makes.

Rock Band 2 released last week on the Wii, along with the last episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People. There were other Virtual Console games, some retail releases and another WiiWare game. The retail releases of last week were Rock Band 2, Word Jong Party, and Summer Sports 2: Island Sports Party and Calvin Tucker’s Redneck Jamboree.

 The WiiWare releases were SBCG4AP Episode 5, by Telltale Games, single-played with 1,000 Wii points, Big Kahuna Party by Reflexive Entertainment Inc., for 1-4 players with 700 Wii points. The virtual console release for the last week was Enduro Racer by Sega Master System, single-played and with 500 Wii points.

The start of the shopping carnival proved deadly at both Wal Mart store and at Toys R Us. Later it gathered all customers around its corner. Wal Mart has now the maximum customers who are willing to buy Nintendo Wii. A temporary Wal Mart worker died when a huge crowed rushed into the store to buy Nintendo Wii early morning and trampled him. Shopkeepers say the crowd was out of control.

At malls and stores it was the usual hectic start of the season. Shoppers were crazy to buy discounted merchandise out of which was our own Wii. Amazon had started its Golden 15 Days, 15 Deals where all the Wii products were sold out on reduced price. With this huge rush Best Buy and Circuit City were out of stock. Some new games are being launched before holidays to make a great deal for everyone while they buy Nintendo Wii. Certain new accessories like Wii Speak are being sold with new games as well as individually.

The marketing research company NPD group stated that over 2 million game consoles were sold in November. This is two times higher than last year’s November sales. Wii is also close to become the most popular game in terms of sales. Analysts say that this year could be the best for Nintendo. Even the staff at Nintendo is impressed to see the way people panic to buy Nintendo Wii. They say everything about the Wii is unpredictable. The Wii targets to bring families together to have fun. May be customers also understand its simple and cheap intuitive ways that is why they too make efforts to buy Nintendo Wii.

Walmart had promoted a healthy stock of Wii consoles on its website, Walmart.com and the retail giant has sold a lot of them. By last week Monday, it had sold tens of thousands of rare Nintendo Wii video games through its website as several other large retailers had put online notices that the product was unavailable.

Ravi Jariwala, a Walmart.com spokespersons said that the company saw a “very strong to the additional inventory” with Walmart selling products online and that they handled the stocks well to accommodate sales to “tens of thousands.” The most surprising part is that even after selling such huge number of consoles, the company still has stocks on the retailer’s site. So, if you are still interested in getting the right console for yourself, go to Walmart.com.

The official website of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes has launched and animated introduction sequence. This mind-blowing sequence can be viewed on the Wii instead of viewing it on the YouTube. Rather, importers have started receiving their copies of the game before the ship date and it is available on Play Asia also. The game has several narrated menus in which the Roll’s Rockman Battle and Chase theme song “Kaze yo Tsutaete” is set as the background music.

The early buyers are already taking the videos of the game which is likely to be good news. To view screens of minigames of Rock Volnutt, Hakushon Daimao’s math game, Batsu’s “Batsu Style Street Dance”, and Polymars drilling game.

You know, for Nintendo, it’s always been cool and shady. Much unlike Sony's PS3 or Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii console has been profitable from the very beginning. Whereas Sony and Microsoft are largely relying on software sales to recoup hardware losses, Nintendo did just as well played upon the advantage of profiting on both hardware and software.According to security analyst David Gibson, who recently spoke to Forbes, “each Wii sold brings in $6 of operating profit for Nintendo. That would mean that just in the month of October for the United States alone, Wii sales generated roughly $4.8 million in operating profit for Nintendo”
Also, Forbes points out that Nintendo sells roughly 60 percent of all Wii games, compared to 30 percent for Microsoft and 15 percent for Sony. Wii users are also expected to buy the most games this year, 220 million, compared with 120 million PS3 games and 125 million for the Xbox 360. And importantly for Nintendo, although those games are sold for $50 instead of $60, they generally have a higher gross margin than competitors' software – 65 percent compared to 50 – 60 percent. Put it all together, and the bottom line is Nintendo is doing quite well.

Meltdown, recession, come what may, video gaming goes on. According to The NPD Group Video Game Industry sales report, October sales of gaming hardware and software rose 18 percent to $1.3 billion compared with Oct. 2007. Year-to-date sales numbers were also impressive, with the category posting an overall 25 percent increase on $13.1 billion in sales. In October, hardware accounted for $494.7 million, up 5 percent, while software generated 35 percent growth on $696.7 million in sales. Accessories were the only down spot for the month, showing an 8 percent fall off on $130.8 million in sales.
"The video games industry grew an impressive 18 percent year-over-year in the first month of the critical fourth quarter. With 10 months under its belt, the video games industry is still poised to top $22 billion in annual sales in 2008," said NPD analyst Anita Frazier. Leading the game console charge was Nintendo's with its Wii, selling 803,000 units during the month, and the DS with 491,000 units sold. Nintendo's ability to increase supply of Wii systems helped boost its sales, Frazier said.

There’s going to be a special Nintendo gaming area as Nintendo Experience above the EBGames store on Swanston Street in Melbourne, Australia on December 6th as announced by Nintendo of Australia. Nintendo has also organized a lunch event at 10 AM and some kind of VIP event before the opening of Nintendo Experience.

There would be Nintendo characters in the morning event and so one can be ready for surprises. Above all this, the first 100 people to arrive in the event will receive a Nintendo DS or Wii Software title and for some lucky people of the lot there also be Nintendo and Wii DS consoles.

There’s going to be a special Nintendo gaming area as Nintendo Experience above the EBGames store on Swanston Street in Melbourne, Australia on December 6th as announced by Nintendo of Australia. Nintendo has also organized a lunch event at 10 AM and some kind of VIP event before the opening of Nintendo Experience.

There would be Nintendo characters in the morning event and so one can be ready for surprises. Above all this, the first 100 people to arrive in the event will receive a Nintendo DS or Wii Software title and for some lucky people of the lot there also be Nintendo and Wii DS consoles.

Nintendo Wii celebrated its 2nd birthday on November 19th as they are going for their North America release. All throughout this year they had a bumpy ride with periodic ups and downs. They now expect that the coming year would look even better.

There have been some good points about Nintendo in last one year. Without a doubt, the most influential change of the Wii is its effect on the demographics of the video same market. The Wii has already changed many aspects of the games industry for the better and as a console it was totally different from the others. However, in some areas Wii also failed and the principal failure of Wii remote is in its promise of immersion through movement. There are limitations of the Wii remote’s accelerometer that makes it to be far short of the dream machine that the players were pining over.