Pokemon Platinum Hits 1 Million in Two Days

It looks like Japan has PokeFever, having releases just two days ago, the latest title in the Pokemon range, Pokemon Platinum, has sold nearly a million copies in just two days. It looks like the Japanese really do "gotta catch em all".

According to figures from Media Create, the pocket monster game sold 963,000 copies in the week ending September 14, easily outselling all of the other titles in the top 10 combined.

Pokeon Platinum is a spin off of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, judging from these figures the Japanese cant get enough of it.

Here's this week's Japanese top ten list in full:

01. Pokemon Platinum (Nintendo, DS) 963,000 / NE
02. Quiz Magic Academy DS (Konami, DS) 119,000 / NEW
03. Infinite Undiscovery (Square Enix, 360) 90,000 / NEW
04. One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Episode 1 - Nami ni Yureru Hihou (Namco Bandai, Wii) 61,000 / NEW
05. Rhythm Heaven Gold (Nintendo, DS) 56,000 / 723,000
06. Wii Fit (Nintendo, Wii) 25,000 / 2,635,000
07. D.Gray-man: Sousha no Shikaku (Konami, PS2) 15,000 NEW
08. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii) 14,000 / 1,762,000
09. Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (Nintendo, DS) 14,000 / 340,000
10. J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship (Konami, PS2) 13,000 / 148,000

Source: CVG

Motorstorm Screens

Feast your eyes on this new set of screenshots from Sonys upcoming Brutal Off-road Racer Motorstorm: Pacific Rift.

The new screens show off new vehicles, new tracks and new mayhem. Also up for display in the screens is the newly featured and much needed splitscreen mode, allowing 2-4 players to play on one system, the lack of local multiplayer in Motorstorm was very disappointing. Finally, you can also see some of the more unconventional vehicles

Hit the source link to view the screenshots.

Source: CVG

Tekkn 6 Footage

A four minute long trailer of Tekken 6 has been shown at the current AM show in Tokyo, Japan.

With nearly four minutes of in-game footage being shown, the trailer shows off some f the new characters, their flashy moves and of course new stages.

Source: CVG

Nintendo Set to Make $1.6 million Per Employee

A report from the Financial Times has put the simply stunning recent success of Nintendo into a mind friendly figure. It states that Nintendo is currently set to earn $1.6 million this year, per Employee.

Given the publisher's latest revenue projections and a workforce of less than 3,000 permanent employees, the business-focused site believes the Wii maker will top the per-employee profit numbers of heavy hitters like Google and Goldman Sachs. The Financial Times believes the search engine giant pulled in about $626,000 for each of its employees, while the global investment firm managed $1.24 million.

Nintendo keeps its profits up a few ways, most notably by outsourcing manufacturing and some game development. It also saves a bundle on employee salaries. Where Goldman Sachs' average employee made $660,000 in total compensation for 2007, the average Nintendo salary clocked in at $90,900.

Now, if only the employees were able to get their hands on that $1.6 million, Nintendo would never have staffing issues again.

Source: Gamespot

Starc Wars Launch Events

Star Wars fans take note, if your planning on getting Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on launch then you may want to check out one of the midnight launches going on at the following locations:

Official launch party with LucasArts at Best Buy
When: Monday, September 15th, starting at 7pm until midnight.
Where: Best Buy, 1717 Harrison St. in San Francisco
Event features: Producers and actors from the game will be there.
Check out more information on it here.

GameCrazy Launch Events
When: Monday, September 15th, starting at 8 p.m. – 1 a.m.
Where: GameCrazy stores (see if there's one in your area here)
Event features: Costume contest. Best Star Wars costume gets to play it first at 10pm (first place and three runners-up)! Chance to receive one of 750 limited edition Force Unleashed action figures.

GameStop Launch Events
See midnight launch locations here.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be released in the US on September 16, 2008, in Asia/Pacific region on September 17, and in Europe on September 19. It will be available for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, PSP and Nintendo DS

Source: Gamingbits

Google Refuses to Comment on Valve Rumour

Internet Behemoth Google has stated reports that it is planning to acquire are simply "Rumour and Speculation".

A report by The Inquirer has suggested Google will announce an acquisition of the Half-Life developer imminently.

Central to the deal would be the Steam business, the market leading online distribution service for games on PC.

Yesterday, Google used its session at Austin GDC to reveal plans for games developers to incorporate games into the firms online virtual world Lively.

Source: Gamesindustry.biz

Rage on Xbox 360 to Use Two Disks

ID Software has had to rethink how content is presented in its upcoming title Rage due to restrictions of the Xbox 360's DVD size.

The original idea had been to spread the game across five-to-six wasteland environments, according to lead designer Tim Willits. But DVD restrictions have meant that's been turned into two larger areas; one for each of the two Xbox 360 discs.

"The PC is limitless in the amount of data you can put on it. The PS3 has about 25GB. But the Xbox 360 roughly has 6 to 8 GB of data. We're hoping we can squeeze the game down to two discs for the 360 version."

"I wouldn't say the overall story was changed in any way in order to fit on the Xbox 360 version," Willits said, "but how the player experiences Rage's story has been altered."

Rage is a post apocalyptic first person action game with driving elements, its set to release in late 2009 or possibly even early 2010.

Source: Eurogamer