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Lost Winds, One Of WiiWare’s Best, Looks Good On The IPhone

9:40AM December 13, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Here is a trailer for Lost Winds, a ballyhooed WiiWare game that is coming to iOS devices later this month. More »

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The Kinect Will Let You Get The Mad Hatter’s Autograph

2:55AM August 17, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Kinect: Disneyland Adventures, which appears to be a surprisingly good game, finally has a release date: November 15, the target date for people buying stuff for Christmas. More »

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Kinect Makes Taking Your Kids To Disneyland Much More Affordable

4:49AM June 7, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Frontier Developments is giving parents around the world an amazing gift this holiday season: The ability to take their children to Disneyland for the price of the Xbox 360, Kinect, and Kinect: Disneyland Adventures. More »

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Kinectimals Creator Sets His Sights On Building The $25 PC

1:30PM May 6, 2011 | Owen Good

David Braben, whose Frontier Developments studio has delivered Elite, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, LostWinds and, yes, Kinectimals, has now created Raspberry Pi. It’s not a game, it’s a working, Linux-based PC on something not much larger than a standard USB memory stick. More »

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This Is Definitely Not A Tease For Kinectimals 2

9:00AM December 14, 2010 | Stephen Totilo

This cake featuring a crashed Air Force One is based on a game David Braben’s Frontier Developments is making. Their most recent work was the toss-frisbees-at-cute-tigers game Kinectimals. But could this be Braben’s reminder of something thought lost, something cooler? More »

Review: Kinectimals

4:00PM November 4, 2010 | Stephen Totilo

Don’t mistake Kinectimals for a Nintendogs clone. This is the closest the Kinect launch has to a traditional video game, one that eight year old girls are going to coo at. More »

LostWinds: Winter Of The Melodias Micro Review: A Pleasant Gust Of Fun

12:20PM October 31, 2009 | matt cabral

Frontier Developments’ follow-up to their excellent wind-powered WiiWare launch title LostWinds returns gamers to the magical land of Mistralis.  More »

Scenes And Screens From LostWinds: Winter Of The Melodias

1:00AM September 3, 2009 | Mike Fahey

Frontier Developments once again puts the power of the wind in your hands in LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, the follow-up to the acclaimed WiiWare launch title. Here’s what it looks like. More »

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LostWinds’ Wintry WiiWare Sequel Confirmed

4:00AM August 31, 2009 | Owen Good

The latest issue of Edge Magazine takes a long look at LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, which is the sequel to last year’s WiiWare hit LostWinds. No release date was announced. More »

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Square Enix Brings LostWinds To Japan

4:00AM November 20, 2008 | Mike Fahey

Square Enix’s newfound love of Western developers bears new fruit as European developer Frontier Developments announces that the Japanese publisher will be publishing their critically-acclaimed WiiWare title LostWinds in Japan and Asia. “Square Enix is a very successful, development-led organisation with a total commitment to quality,” said David Braben, Frontier’s Chairman and founder. “Frontier shares those same core ideals and we are very pleased to be doing business together. Square Enix’s strength in Japan will give LostWinds the chance to shine there, as it has done elsewhere.”

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