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Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has reported that Nintendo Wii has demonstrated firm control of the Japanese home console market for the fiscal first half running from April to September. In the period Nintendo managed to sell 1.6 million Wii consoles, whereas Sony sold 385, 492 PS3s. Nintendo’s DS sold 3.5 million …

PlayStation 3 will be leading the scrap for home console supremacy by 2011, but will have a difficult Christmas thanks to a lack of quality software, according to the exclusive report. He also delivers his verdict on the future of Nintendo and Microsoft formats – read the full, authoritative report …

PlayStation 3 will be leading the scrap for home console supremacy by 2011, but will have a difficult Christmas thanks to a lack of quality software, according to the exclusive report. He also delivers his verdict on the future of Nintendo and Microsoft formats – read the full, authoritative report …

Infogrames, the French parent company of US firm Atari, has said that it will soon unveil a plan to restore profitability to Atari which is it has blamed for overall operating losses across the group, according to news agency Reuters . We are negotiating with the management and the board …

Infogrames, the French parent company of US firm Atari, has said that it will soon unveil a plan to restore profitability to Atari which is it has blamed for overall operating losses across the group, according to news agency Reuters . We are negotiating with the management and the board …

Nintendo has finally given the official confirmation that games from SNK’s NeoGeo system will be appearing on Wii’s Virtual Console download service – though no date other than ‘soon’ has so far been announced. The first Neo Geo launched in 1990 and rose to popularity in the East owing to …

Nintendo has finally given the official confirmation that games from SNK’s NeoGeo system will be appearing on Wii’s Virtual Console download service – though no date other than ‘soon’ has so far been announced. The first Neo Geo launched in 1990 and rose to popularity in the East owing to …

UK independent looking to break the traditional development salary cycle

UK independent looking to break the traditional development salary cycle

Japanese electronics firm Sony has successfully raised $2.8 billion through the initial public offering of its insurance unit. Next-Gen reports that Sony sold 800,000 shares of Sony Financial Holdings for $3,465 each. The firm hopes to raise $121 million from the sale by the end of its financial year next …