Promotional copies of Resident Evil: Revelations sent to members of the US press include a typo on the game’s packaging.

The packaging spells the game’s name “Resident Evil: Revelaitons” down the spine.

The game is due out in the US on the 7th of February, meaning it's unlikely Capcom will be able to correct the mistake before release.

 

Nintendo has announced a series of free game demos either both currently available and coming soon to the Nintendo eShop.

Available now are demos for Resident Evil Revelations and Cooking Mama 4.

Capcom’s Resident Evil Revelations is a Nintendo 3DS exclusive. Set between Resident Evils 4 and 5, the BSAA assigns agents Jill Valentine and Parker Luciani to locate missing agents Chris Redfield and Jessica Sherawat aboard the cruise liner SS Queen Zenobia.

 

It may not feel like it, but we've begun a very interesting year.

The industry has entered another transitional phase as the established dominance of current console platforms, now some five or six years old, begins to wane.

Nintendo, once the biggest player in the market with the phenomenally successful Wii, has seen hardware sales shrink. Motion control, the would-be darling of the casual games market, has foundered recently with developers seemingly unable to, or uninterested in taking full advantage of the possibilities presented by Kinect and Move.

 

2011 has been a dynamic year for the gaming industry, with a number of lofty highs tempered by the occasional low.

Security seems to be an ongoing concern for both hardware and software manufacturers; back in January the PlayStation 3 was hacked, leading to the availability of pirated games mimicking the official Sony digital signature. Sony's woes didn't end there – in April its customer database was compromised, leading to a prolonged outage for the PlayStation Network service.

Sony wasn't alone. SEGA quickly followed suit, along with Valve's Steam service, in addition to many other minor intrusions reported at technology companies throughout the world.

 

Way back in the Dark Ages when games generally only carried 2D sprites, the plucky plumber named Mario went though a bit of a rise and fall.

Once king of both the arcade and home markets, Shigeru Miyamoto's brainchild fell into mild obscurity, and suffered from waning inspiration. That was, until he was reborn in glorious light – with a crucial additional dimension in his Nintendo 64 debut, Super Mario 64.

Since then, there has been a raft of excellent Mario games on a variety of platforms – perhaps most notably Super Mario Sunshine for the GameCube – and his first outing on Nintendo's newest console, Mario finds himself well and truly at home in one of the best games of his career.

 

The Louvre museum in Paris is to gradually replace its audio tour guides with tour guides delivered on Nintendo 3DS units.

The current audio guides are used by only 4 per cent of the museum’s 8.5 million annual visitors. With the 3DS, visitors will be able to locate themselves within The Louvre, select themed tours including specialised guides for children, and listen to “hundreds of commentaries in seven languages about the works on display,” reports tech website physorg.

Nintendo has developed the content under the guidance of The Louvre’s curators. The Louvre’s management believes the change will appeal to a new generation who prefer to access media via a touchscreen and who are used to using such technology at home.

 

Gaming headset manufacturer Turtle Beach has attempted to send a Kiwi gamer to Iraq as part of a promotional campaign.

24-year-old Phil, also known as StatiC, will get "the experience of a lifetime" as he appears in a series of five videos charting his progress towards the Iraqi border.

The promotion, dubbed "Turtle Beach: Mission 'Iraq'", was organised by the company's New Zealand distributor, Fiveight.