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Mario may be making a triple dent on the Wii charts at the moment with the success of Mario & Sonic at the Olympics, Super Mario Galaxy and Mario Party 8, but the plumber’s high-flying antics look set to receive a further boost next year with the confirmation of a …

Burnout Paradise, the racer which has been dubbed the first ‘proper’ next-gen instalment in the series, will arrive in Europe on both Xbox 360 and PS3 on January 25th, Eurogamer reports. The wait for Criterion’s latest instalment in its manic racing franchise has certainly been a long one, but the …

A brand new trailer for Rockstar’s massively anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV, entitled ‘Move up, ladies’, is due to hit the virtual airwaves tonight at 8:00pm. The last time the publisher unleashed a GTAIV trailer on the internet the huge web traffic forced the company’s official site to a crushing …

If there’s one thing we should know about Nintendo it’s that its games tend to carry on selling – so a number two debut in the Japanese software charts for Nintendo’s Wii Fit can be considered an extremely strong debut. Its 261,000 week one sales were not quite enough to …

Even excluding the hefty coin from console hardware (which has no equivalent in the film world), games sales alone are up 27 per cent from the same period in 2006, to $5 billion, according to the NPD Group. When it comes to sequel-itis, the film business is clearly in the …

A study released by US PR firm Hill & Knowlton has claimed that 60 per cent of consumers think that the US government should have direct control of the regulations concerning the sale of mature or violent games, Next-Gen reports. The report also claims that 51 per cent of those …

PlayStation platform holder Sony recently launched its brand new PSP Store , which closely follows the lead successfully laid down by its PS3 cousin, and whilst the service remains PC-only for the moment the company has confirmed it is looking to bring it directly onto its portable machine. Speaking to …

The American arm of Japanese games publisher Namco Bandai is to team up with Koch Media label Deep Silver to bring a trio of titles to Europe and other non-US territories – and it marks Koch’s first foray onto Microsoft’s format. Leading the way is Warhammer: Battle March on Xbox …

Sega has already twice professed ( here and here ) its belief that recent Wii release Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games can be a global smash hit for the publisher, and it certainly looks to be gaining momentum by dominating all in this week’s ChartTrack Wii Top Ten. …

Throughout the month of November the Nintendo Wii was the most searched for product by UK internet shoppers, far outstripping the demand for the most searched for mobile phone (Apple’s iPhone), competitive intelligence company Hitwise claims. In total, 13 times as many searches were made for ‘Nintendo Wii’ as there …