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Andriasang has got hold of Enterbrain’s annual Japanese video games market report, and it reveals another year of decline in the region. In total the market shrunk by nine per cent year-on-year in the last 12 months arching a total value of Y494bn (3.8bn). Hardware suffered the steepest decline, falling …

Having enjoyed a very strong Christmas, Ubisoft’s Michael Jackson: The Experience has now sold over 2m units across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. There’s more to come from the game too, with a Japanese release incoming and an April release for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions …

Just hours after going live yesterday afternoon, Apple’s Mac App Store has already been hacked by pirates. Bizarrely, however, the team behind the crack has said it won’t publicly release the exploit until next year in case it upsets developers. When the public do get their hands on the software, …

The most detailed look at the PlayStation Phone yet has been posted online. Engadget reports that the device will be powered by a Qualcomm Adreno 205 GPU and a Snapdragon QSD8255 1GHz CPU, which is the same as is seen in the HTC Desire HD. The four inch screen has …

A third of the execs we surveyed for our look ahead at 2011 named 3DS as their highlight of the year. Indeed, a new console launch, not a hardware add-on, is a potential antidote to the winter blues. And if the rumourmill is to be believed, we’ve got at least …

Nintendo DS was the UK’s biggest selling games device of 2010, MCV understands. Although sales decreased year-on-year, combined sales of DSi, DSi XL and DS Lite just outstripped 360 by just over 50,000 units, according to our retail sources. Since going on sale in 2004 DS has become the most …

Nintendo’s 3DS could save the struggling UK games market, claim industry bosses. Worrying figures from GfK Chart-Track this week revealed that the UK games market contracted 13 per cent year-on-year in 2010 – down 29 per cent since the Wii/DS boom of 2008. 2.875 billion was generated from software, hardware …

It’s new hardware, but possibly not as you expected it. Former platform holder Sega has launched a new range of machines in Japan… that attach to male urinals. Wired reports that the new devices, called ‘Toylets’, have been rolled out for testing at a number of locations in Tokyo. Each …

The Mac version of the Apple App Store has this afternoon gone live around the world. The online portal, highly similar to the iOS version in terms of function and presentation, comes bundled with Mac OSX update v10.6.6 It is said that 1,000 free and paid-for apps are already available …

Publisher Square Enix has confirmed that The Tomb Raider Trilogy will exclusively hit PS3 on March 25th in the UK. The SKU includesHD remakes of both Tomb Raider Legend and Tomb Raider Anniversay as well Tomb Raider Underworld, which has previously had an HD release on PS3 and Xbox 360. …