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Enslaved, one of the most talked about products of 2010, may yet evolve into a franchise, according to publisher Namco Bandai. The game received excellent reviews and was backed by a high profile marketing and PR campaign, but failed to achieve strong sales. The market saw it as something of …

Xbox 360 and Windows platform holder Microsoft has reported its best ever quarterly earnings for the three months ending December 31st. Total company revenues came in at $19.95bn for the period with profits reaching just over $8bn. It was the Entertainment and Devices Division, which is the home of Xbox …

US analyst Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Markets has questioned whether Sony’s high-end Next Generation Portable will be able to penetrate the mass market that defines the modern games industry. "At launch, Sony expects to have a strong lineup of games for NGP, including Activision’s Call of Duty as well …

Microsoft told All Things Digital that more than two million Windows Phone 7 smartphones had shipped to mobile carriers. "We’re still in the early stages," Microsoft Windows Phone 7 product manager Greg Sullivan told All Things Digital in an interview. "When people use this phone, they really, really like it," …

Sony has confirmed that that 3G connectivity will be an optional extra included only in some models of the Next Generation Portable. "The first thing to clarify, which I’m not sure the presentation did a perfect job of doing today, is that all of the devices will have wi-fi capability; …

How the future handheld will pan out nobody can say for now, but there’s one thing we can say for sure – the NGP will change the technical power expected of handhelds in the future. "When PSP first launched in 2005 in North America it changed the way people thought …

We know that the NExt Generation Portable will be launched in "late 2011", but how much will it cost? For now, Sony’s not saying, though the company has pledged that the machine will be "affordable". "I can’t put a ballpark on it in terms of figures, but what I would …

Upon seeing both the size and power of Sony’s new Next Generation portable, it’s inevitable that the first question many people asked was how long the battery would last – but Sony has assured that it will put up a decent display. "We’ll have a good, solid battery life because …

It may have lost many men in the battle of 2010, but General Wii still stands tall on the battlefield that is taking place under the world’s TVs. From the West, swelled by year-on-year gains in American followers, the Xbox 360 continues to wear down Wii’s lead. From the East, …

Two senior development execs have left their post at Rockstar’s UK studios. Mark Washbrook has left his role as head of Rockstar London. Meanwhile Mark Lloyd, head of QA studio Rockstar Lincoln, has also left. "Rockstar says that neither of these departures will affect any current projects," says IGN‘s report. …