Consoles

SCE UK boss Ray Maguire says more third parties will embrace PS3 as lead development platform

Nintendo’s revamped DSi handheld will include 256MB of internal memory, it has been revealed, though half of it will be taken up by downloading the free Opera web browser. Unfortunately, web browsing was criticised for being very slow, with sites such as Yahoo News reportedly taking over a minute to …

Bethesda’s Fallout 3 has blown away the sales impact of its direct predecessor, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, with the Xbox 360 version selling 57 per cent more copies than the medieval adventure in its first week. Fallout 3 shot straight to the top of Gfk ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 …

MTV is set to take a different approach to tacking the problem of copyright infringing user content by trailing a new system that will see offending material automatically updated with paid-for ads. Reuters reports that the trial, which uses technology from third party developer Auditude, is already underway on social …

The sequel to EA’s successful new skateboarding IP Skate is set to be released in January 2009, according to IGN . The site reports: Today we received boxed retail copies of Mirror’s Edge in the office. Our full review of the game is embargoed for a couple weeks, but that …

EA has announced a brand new version of Criterion’s popular Burnout Paradise for both Xbox 360 and PS3 that is heading to the shelves in February next year. Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box will include both of the major bits of DLC received for the game so far – namely …

Hot on the heels of its financials that were released this morning, Nintendo has now revealed that global shipments of its DS handheld have surpassed that of its successful older brother, the Game Boy Advance. For the complete story and all the stats in full, head over to the internet’s …

Nintendo posted a net profit of 144.8 billion yen ($1.5 billion) in the April-September quarter today, up 9.4 per cent from the previous year. Sales increased 20 per cent to 836.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion), while operating profit surged 34 per cent to 252.2 billion ($2.6 billion). However, according to …

Platform holder Nintendo has promised to bring more Wii and DS stock into the UK this Christmas than ever before, to cope with ‘unprecedented’ demand. The firm has told MCV that console production is at its highest level in the company’s history, with Wii sales up 76 per cent and …

A survey by Japanese games website Dengeki Online has suggested that Japanese gamers remain sceptical about Nintendo’s upcoming redesign of its globally popular DS. However, the Dengeki survey found that only 3.6 per cent of respondents were intending to buy the machine upon the release A further 29.4 per cent …