During a recent conference all, EA CEO John Riccitiello expressed his frustration with games on the Wii selling not as well as they have, and not selling as well and they used to. He said,

“To be honest with you, I think the Wii platform has been a little weaker than we had certainly anticipated. And there is no lack of frustration to be doing that at precisely the time where we have the strongest third-party share.”

Riccitiello also added that Nintendo should support 3rd party developers more, and that EA has reached out to Nintendo to partner up and push third party titles even stronger.

If you’re not into the latest simulation games of NBA Live 10 and NBA 2K10, but in for something more in the arcade scene, NBA Unrivaled might just do the job for you. Based on the old NBA Hangtime-ish arcade games of the 90s, complete with the retro look and feel, and with the full NBA license. The game will be out on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, and on the PS3′s PSN sometime in the future.

Microsoft’s new wireless adapter, which support the new, and much faster N WiFi standard, will be shipping next week for $99 — quite a lot for something that comes as standard with the PS3 and the Wii (although those don’t feature N speeds). The old wireless adapter will still be available and retail for $75.

SEGA of Europe has announced a special edition of the upcoming Bayonetta, which includes the game, a hardcover art book and a soundtrack. Bayonetta, an action game developed by Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya, is scheduled for release in January. The special edition is expected to be announced for the North American continent as well.

IO Interactive, the Danish developer (owner by Square Enix), is best known for the Hitman franchise and the recent Kane & Lynch and Mini Ninjas (read our Mini Ninjas review).

While the developer has confirmed it’s working on Hitman 5 and Kane & Lynch 2, CVG reports that a secret source tells them IO is working on a game “unlike anything else”, and note: “Imagine all the violence of Hitman and Kayne & Lynch but not scripted”.

The Tekken series has been in a long battle with Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter for many, many years, each time, each series tried to top the other, and now is no different with Tekken 6. The latest installment in the franchise, this time with a deep roster, new gameplay modes and tweaks, this is certainly the best Tekken game to date. But how does it stack up against the rivals? Read on.

The story of Tekken 6 is slim to non existent to laughable — but that’s expected, it’s not a novel, it’s a fighting game, and the story that’s there basically moves your from fight to fight. Nothing special, and it gets the job done. The single player campaign lets you battle all of the available enemies, which means you’ll be fighting a lot of them — the roster is one of the largest in any Tekken game, with all the classic fighters back, including Lei, Paul, Jin and Kazuya. It also includes characters included in Tekken Dark Resurrection, further increasing the roster to a total of 40. However, not many new members have been introduced, not that it makes any difference, since the roster already feels crowded and it’s gonna take you a long time to identify with all of the characters. Read the rest of the Tekken 6 review

While Activision is gearing up to have the largest entertainment launch of all time, EA isn’t exactly basking in the same success. In fact, they have announced today that they will be eliminated 1,500 employees in an attempt to cut costs and turn a profit.

EA says that eliminating these employees and shutting down several facilitates will give them an opportunity to “focus on titles with higher margin opportunities”.

Exactly what these titles are remains unknown.

via kotaku

Wondering just how successful Modern Warfare 2‘s launch will be? Well, VGChartz has today reported that the title has been pre-ordered over 4.5 million times.

Additionally, it is predicted that the game will sell well over 6 million units in the first week netting Activision somewhere around $500 million making it the biggest entertainment launch in history. This means that its launch will produce more money in the first week than any movie, book, or music launches.

Now all we have to do and wait until it hits store shelves tomorrow to see how the game actually performs.

Modern Warfare 2 isn’t supposed to launch until 12am tonight, as you most likely already know, but it seems that some GameStops in the North East have broken the street date.

Kotaku says that one such retailer was quoted to have said that they were given permission by Activision to start handing out the title a day early to which they quickly responded:

“Activision has not given any retailer permission to sell Modern Warfare 2 prior to the Nov. 10 street date. The company fully supports the Nov.10 street date.”

On the other hand, if you did get your hands on the game early you don’t have to worry about getting the banhammer as Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling pushed out the following tweet:

“ANY store selling #MW2 early is in violation of street date. There are no “special permissions”. That said, we won’t punish players for it.”

Microsoft has announced that the second season of the highly successful Xbox Live game 1 vs 100 will begin on November 19, 5 PM Pacific time. The first season, which was a beta season of the massively multiplayer show game, ran for 15 weeks and had over half a million contestants. Over 2 million Microsoft Points were given out as prizes during for the best players of the trivia game, and it looks like season 2 will surpass in both player count and prizes.