Consoles

The Red Wii helped Nintendo hardware sales boom during the Christmas period, despite a year-on-year drop in profit. At an investors conference Nintendo president Satoru Iwata defended the platform holder’s Q3 profit slump with a roundup of impressive Wii sales data for Japan, Europe and the US. In Europe the …

With the NGP now fully exposed and the 3DS just two months from release, the 2011 handheld battle lines have been drawn – but both platform holders are remaining coy about their rival machines. "Clearly in the dedicated portable space, we will be in competition with 3DS," SCEE president Andrew …

Consumers shouldn’t expect a revised version of the yet-to-be launched 3DS anytime in the near future, according to platform holder Nintendo. With previous handhelds the company has been quick to roll out revised versions of its portable hardware. The DS Lite, a radically re-engineered version of the twin screened device, …

SCE not yet decided on price or release date

Though Sony didn’t this morning repeat the "as powerful as PS3" line that it had been giving to developers over the last few months, the Next Generation Portable is certainly a stompingly powerful device. In fact, Epic founder Tim Sweeney told attendees at Sony’s Tokyo press gathering that the new …

Thor: God of Thunder will no longer be released on PSP when it hits shelves on other formats on April 29th. Sega confirmed the cancellation in its latest release schedule which stated that the game will instead be released on 3DS. The third person action adventure – also due for …

Despite a report from games trade body UKIE yesterday claiming that four games are pirated for every one sold, Nintendo has claimed that video games piracy is in decline. "I think perhaps there’s been a ‘heyday of piracy’ and we’ve now seen a lot of rules come in to stop …

The next game to emerge from the ongoing partnership between developer Platinum Games and publisher Sega will be called Max Anarchy. Not much is known about the game, though a Famitsu translation courtesy of Andriasang says it will be "an online action combat game with support for large numbers of …

Web giant The Hut Group is fast becoming one of the UK’s biggest games retailers, after reporting a huge leap in sales last year. For 2010 The Hut Group saw its sales rise 70 per cent to 87m, up from 51m in 2009. The biggest growth area for the Group …

EA has uploaded demos of its key Q1 FPS games Crysis 2 and Bulletstorm to Xbox Live today. Gold Live subscribers will be able to download both demos on Xbox 360 for free, with a PS3 demo of Bulletstorm arriving on PSN tomorrow (Wednesday, January 26th). The Crysis 2 demo …