Nintendo 3DS than 4 million units sold in Japan

Would have enjoyed its best week with sales of more than 500 thousand units.

The audit Enterbrain has released sales data consoles in Japan during the week between 19 and 25 December, noting that 3DS has again become the best selling console in that territory with sales have exceeded half a million units, reaching the milestone of 4,135,739 consoles sold since the laptop will be released in February this year.

These data are well above the latest forecasts offered by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who expected to reach four million consoles sold in Japan in the early months of 2012.Sin But over the last four weeks has 3DS been able to put more than one and half million consoles in Japanese homes, which has been a real milestone for the laptop from Kyoto.

This Wednesday we will post the sales data that regularly provides audit Media Create, which is what we use to reflect the sales of games and consoles in the Japanese market.

Skyrim receive a small update in January

Version 1.4 could end some of the most annoying bugs on the PS3.

Bethesda Softworks has promised that during the month of January posted an update to their fantastic new The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim which they hope to end some of the most annoying bugs of the game, and more particularly those affecting users PlayStation 3.

However, the development team singled out the small update to version 1.4 will have this game, although can be a big step forward in solving the stability problems of the graphics engine or micro lag errors.

Additionally, Bethesda is still working on another major update of the game for PC that will include the coveted tools and Steam Kt Creation Workshop.

Users of Modern Warfare 3 from cheating face bans "temporary" 14 years

5,000 days have been confirmed ban's own Robert Bowling.

An anonymous user from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Internet has shown an image of a 5,000-days ban could face facet users on-line title from cheating in multiplayer.

The number of ban "temporary" to which the user faces PlayStation 3 was still in the air as to its validity, until Robert Bowling, one of the chief executives of Infinity Ward has confirmed all the ends of officers of the news.

Sony aims for an audience "younger" with PlayStation 3 from now

"I think from now going to see us directing the console to a considerably younger demographic."

Jim Ryan, one of the top executives of Sony Computer Entertainment in its European division, talked to the British magazine PlayStation Official Magazine straight from a change in strategy.

"I think from now going to see us directing the console to a younger demographic group significantly. A family market, but the hardcore gamer will not be sidelined at all," said Ryan.

"There will be a lot of great material for hardcore, but from our own studies, the third-parties also have interesting things in many areas that will allow us to open ourselves to a market that was very successful for PlayStation and PlayStation 2, but in the we have not yet immersed in PlayStation 3, "said the executive.

The reduction of price in the last GamesCom also be important to Sony. "If you look back at the history of PlayStation and PlayStation 2, the vast majority of businesses have done in these two platforms are held at a price point below 129 pounds. Now we have the 199 pounds in the UK a couple of months ago, so that you can see we have a lot of potential still ahead. "

Bethesda links the problems of Skyrim PS3 version of the same that plagued New Vegas

"It's an engine problem at about saved games are stored."

Josh Sawyer, one of the chief executives of Obsidian, has spoken on the issue PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls fantasy V: Skyrim, an outstanding game but is far from perfect due to many technological problems that seem primed with the version of the Sony console.

"It's an engine problem at about saved games are stored outside the bit flag differences compared to those in the primary. Esm + DLC. ESMS," said Sawyer who led to the remarkable Obsidian Fallout: New Vegas, it seems, shares the same problem with the latest Bethesda Softworks. "As the game modifies any distance at which an object is placed, the changes are stored outside of what is essentially another. ESM. And when loading the game you are also loading all those differences in resident memory ".

"The way to restructure the working of the engine requires a huge commitment in terms of time," said the executive. "In Obsidian only had that engine for 18 months before the launch of New Vegas, which is a relatively short period of time to understand all the details on how that technology works."

GTA V is, according to Google, the most wanted game was released in 2012 few

Max Payne 3, Halo 4, Half-Life 3 and Mass Effect 3 are also among the titles of reference in this field.

Google Trends is a great tool to check the interest of those using the popular search platform, and this time has been used to assess which are the games that arouse more passion among fans.

Despite its recent announcement is just the game GTA V Popular Searches on Google for all who will go on sale in 2012, followed by Max Payne 3 and Halo 4 in the second and third positions respectively. Half-Life 3 and Mass Effect 3 conclude the top 5 in fourth and fifth places.

The incombustible Modern Warfare 3 repeated once more in front of the British charts

FIFA 12 sales increases and takes over second place.

  
Once again we return to see how Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 continues to dominate the British top with a 2% increase in sales that ensure the fourth consecutive week in front of the ranking. FIFA 12 also has greatly improved its data to capture the second place, while Revelations, the next installment of the popular Assassin's Creed franchise has been in third place.

01. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
02. FIFA 12
03. Assassin's Creed: Revelations
04. Just Dance 3
05. The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
06. Saint's Row: The Third
07. Professor Layton and the Spectrum Call
08. Mario Kart 7
09. Battlefield 3
10. 3D Super Mario Land

Possible new specifications for Wii U

It will have a 3GHz Quad Core CPU based on 45nm PowerPC.

In the last hours there are new rumors about possible specifications next desktop will have the Nintendo Wii U.

According to an anonymous source that supposedly comes from a study by a developer who is converting a PlayStation 3 title Wii U, Nintendo's new machine would have a 3GHz quad-core CPU based on 45nm PowerPC.

768MB of DRAM would also embedded in the CPU, shared between the CPU and 40nm GPU would be ATI.

The source also said that Nintendo would be juggling two models, one with 768MB of DRAM and identified another 1GB of DRAM.

The Master Chief and Cortana will suffer major changes in Halo 4

With this new release will bring back "exploration" and "mystery" that has characterized the franchise.

The latest issue of Xbox World magazine has revealed interesting new details on Halo 4 because of an interview with Frank O'Connor, head of 343 Industries.

In the interview it was revealed that the armor of Master Chief has received "some fairly radical changes" a fact that is related to the story itself.

On the other hand Cortana is in danger, as we approach the end of its life cycle, "Cortana was close to reaching the end of its life cycle at the end of Halo 3, but has been exposed to much more information than any existing IA. "

In this new trilogy hope to bring back "the sense of wonder and mystery of the series," and we will see "the air of exploration along with some surprises that I think will appeal to people."

Halo 4 is scheduled for release on Xbox 360 in late 2012.

New evidence points to the arrival of a Game of the Year Edition Mortal Kombat

The age rating agency puts Britain in February.

A few days ago was a chain of stores that set a date to a supposed Game of the Year edition for the outstanding title Mortal Kombat PS3 and Xbox 360, and now has been the agency of British age rating, the BBFC, which Mortal Kombat puts this Komplete Edition in February 2012. More specifically, for 17 of that month.

For now, though, and Warner Bros. Studios Netherrealm not officially announced this special edition of their hit fighting game that, in principle, include all downloadable content appeared so far with such illustrious characters as Freddy Krueger.

Bethesda Softworks recognizes that it must treat Skyrim updates with "greater care"

"If we get too aggressive trying to fix a minor problem, run the risk of breaking something bigger."

This morning we offered Bethesda Softworks statements along the lines of the need to launch an incremental patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to correct the problems seen with the release 1.2. Now we extend this information with words of their responsibilities regarding the policy should continue with this type of patches.

"We know this is a great game, and everyone has a different experience with it," explained the members of the company. "We will continue doing everything we can to continue making the game better and better, for many people as possible every day."

"And we realized that there are millions and millions of people playing Skyrim, and we need to treat our updates more carefully," they say. "If we get too aggressive trying to fix a minor problem, run the risk of breaking something bigger."

"For sure we are working on giving priority to the above code fixes the data arrays. Quests and balance problems are common data, and they begin to shoot more with updates in January," they conclude.

An employee of Valve caught carrying a shirt Half-Life 3

The news, however, is very far from being an official confirmation.

Chandana Ekanayake, marketing executive and artistic director, has said on his Twitter have seen with your own eyes to an employee of Valve wearing a shirt Half-Life 3 in an event of a local developer.

As is obvious, that article is not intended to be a confirmation of anything at all, but rather something that goes beyond curious as to what a degree expected and desired to be very few.