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More Nintendo Wii U units coming to US stores

GadgetWorld - Nintendo’s Wii U console has been sold out in just a few days in US, but now Scott Moffitt, executive vice president of marketing at Nintendo, say that more units are on the way to US stores, although there were no details given on exactly when the console will be available.

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The Citizen Kane of Podcasts | Benign with B-TEN

Gabe Carey joins stand-up comedian Dennis McCarson along with fellow B-TENers Simon O’Neill, James Daly, and Anthony Vernon to discuss Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Destiny’s $500 million budget, as well as an assortment of hypothetical entertainment scenarios and self-referential humor. As the Ninja Turtles would say, it was a shell of a time.

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Is This the Last Console Generation?

Gamespot:
"Is the home game console market in trouble? Some analysts certainly think so. Despite reports of record-breaking sales for both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, some industry doomsayers are forecasting the end of the home console as we know it, citing increased competition from mobile games, a resurgent PC space, and spiraling costs in AAA-game development. So will the PS4, Xbox One, and Wii U be the last "generation" of consoles? Or will dedicated game machines continue to have a place in our living rooms for many more years to come? Check out what some of our editors think about this vexing issue."

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The Secret Developers: Wii U - the inside story

Eurogamer- The Secret Developers is Digital Foundry's occasional series where game-makers come forward to talk with us - and you - about topics they are passionate about, or in the case of this article, to give you the inside story behind a particular hot topic. As the future of the Wii U looks uncertain in the face of the successful launches for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4, this "warts and all" tale from a respected third-party creator gives you some idea of how Nintendo handled the transition to the high-definition gaming era, and the challenges developers faced in bringing their games to the Wii U platform.

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