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Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has stated that Sony’s upcoming LittleBigPlanet is such an important title to the firm that it could be the catalyst for the machine’s delayed take-off in Japan, Next-Gen reports. We think that LittleBigPlanet will be a console seller in Japan,” he told investors yesterday. LittleBigPlanet …

It may not be surprising, but Microsoft’s current Xbox blogging daddy Major Nelson has confirmed that Halo 3 has already claimed the crown of Xbox Live’s most active title. Bungie’s predecessor Halo 2 had held the crown for some considerable time, though it had faced stern challenges recently from the …

It may not be surprising, but Microsoft’s current Xbox blogging daddy Major Nelson has confirmed that Halo 3 has already claimed the crown of Xbox Live’s most active title. Bungie’s predecessor Halo 2 had held the crown for some considerable time, though it had faced stern challenges recently from the …

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 …

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 …