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Games market analyst Colin Sebastian has claimed that Nintendo’s freshly confirmed 3DS could potentially threaten iPhone’s rise as a viable portable games machine With a differentiated 3D display, high quality games, and profitable business model for publishers, we believe the 3DS could help reduce the competitive threat from smartphones,” Sebastian …

A leading analyst has predicted that Nintendo’s 3DS can help usher in a new era of 3D gaming in a way that the expensive options being prepared by the likes of Sony and Microsoft cannot. 3D with no glasses has mass market potential,” Lazard Capital’s Colin Sebastian noted. Following the …

A report filed by the House of Representatives’ clerk’s office in the US shows that trade body The Entertainment Software Association spent a whopping $1,208,000 on lobbying in Q4 2009. Spong reports that the number is up on 2008’s total lobbying spend of $980k. The ESA engaged officials on a …

Apple’s digital distribution model makes it tough to track sales numbers for iPhone games, but a new report from Flurry says that the device’s share of the US market grew considerably last year – at the expense of the PSP and DS.Mobile Entertainment reports that in 2009 the iPhone claimed …

Key political parties set for game industry showdown

UK studios' online business practices called into question

Mobile ad firm releases new SDKs and says customers are going cross-platform

Sony has expressed its pride after sweeping last week’s 2010 GAME BAFTAs, picking up awards for Uncharted 2, LittleBigPlanet and Flower. The PS3 manufacturer took a total of six awards – more than any other company – with four going to Uncharted, which topped the Action, Story, Score and Use …

More deals dropped as publisher continues to pull resources inwards

Comments from SCE Benelux’s Folkert Langeveld have seemingly confirmed the existence of LittleBigPlanet 2. Furthermore, it’s claimed that the game is set to front Sony’s new PlayStation Move. Little Big Planet 2 will support the Move,” according to a translation from Tweakers.net. Sony has not hurried a sequel to the …