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Rumour: Nintendo Wants To Modify The Wii U To Run Smartphone Apps

Has it really come to this? According to Kyodo News, sources say that the Kyoto-based game maker is trying to modify its game hardware so it can run smartphone apps.


There Might Be A New Metal Gear Solid Collection

Yesterday, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima tweeted out this picture. He wrote that he was in the process of checking whatever was in it. He didn’t say what. However, the Korean Game Rating Board might have.


Report: Xbox Staff Working On Microsoft ‘Smartwatch’

According to a report on The Verge, former Xbox and Kinect staffers have for a year been working on a “wrist-worn device” for Microsoft. The watch, which the report says began life as an Xbox accessory for fitness games, has a 1.5-inch display.


Studio Ghibli Denies Involvement In Rumoured Kiki’s Delivery Service Film

There’s a rumour that Kiki’s Delivery Service is being turned into a live-action film. The rumour, via Twitch, stated that Ju-On and The Grudge director Shimizu Takashi would be helming the picture. And now, Studio Ghibli has commented on the matter.


The Next Xbox May Have ‘HDMI In’ Port. So?

A new source emails me several days ago. The source has access to a development kit for the next Xbox 360 — the codenamed Durango. Accurately describes the look of the new controller, but mentions something he’s confused about. The Durango he’s seen doesn’t just send a signal out through an HDMI port (that’s normal). It has an HDMI-in. That’s not normal.


Survey Hints EA Sports’ Canada Studio Is Back To Working On NBA Games

Well, this is strange. Chris Sanner of Operation Sports spotted a survey looking for people in the Vancouver area to serve in a focus group on a “New NBA Concept”. EA Canada, in nearby Burnaby, for years was the studio responsible for the label’s NBA products, right up to the ignominious cancellation of NBA Elite 11.


Microsoft Apologises For Employee’s Always-Online Tweets

Microsoft is sorry about yesterday’s Twitter drama surrounding Adam Orth, a creative director at the company’s Xbox division. But the company is not ready to speak freely about the part of that drama that could actually affect your gaming future.


Before It Was Cancelled, Star Wars 1313 Was Going To Be About Boba Fett

We’ve learned a great deal about Star Wars 1313 over the past few months, and today we’ve got one more huge detail, thanks to a reliable Kotaku source. Last year, just before E3, LucasArts shifted focus and turned it into a game about the masked bounty hunter Boba Fett.


Reports In China Say Two More Foxconn Workers Jumped

Foxconn, the manufacturing arm of the Taiwanese Hon Hai Precision Industrial is once again caught in the centre of media attention in China. Over the weekend, reports appeared saying that two workers had jumped off a building at Foxconn’s Shenzhen plant.


Rumour: Ex-Square Enix Developer Defends Recently Axed Boss

Yoichi Wada, Square Enix’s president, is stepping down. The news came as a surprise. Wada has been Square Enix’s only president since Square and Enix joined forces. Some are happy about this. Others are not.


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