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Warner Bros and LEGO have announced plans to release a new line of LEGO Ninjago toys and game content. DS adventure title LEGO Ninjago: The Videogame, developed by TT Games, will arrive in UK stores this spring. The title allows players to embark on a ‘good’ or ‘evil’ single-player campaign, …

Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton believes rival firms Sony and Microsoft are as equally important in promoting the industry to the next generation of game development hopefuls. Speaking at the Learning Without Frontiers event today, Yarnton set aside old rivalries to say the arrival of both Sony and Microsoft in …

Christmas may be over, but Nintendo just keeps on giving, with three copies of both Mario Sports Mix on Wii and Mario Vs Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem on DS up for grabs. To be in with a chance of winning, just answer the following question: Which of the following sports …

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 …

Platform holder Nintendo has confirmed the total lifetime sales for both DS and Wii in the US. Since going on sale in November 2004 the DS has gone on to sell a total of 47m units in the territory, making it the best selling handheld console in US history. Its …

Official figures from UKIE show that in 2010 the UK video games market was worth a total of 2.88bn. This is down on the overall 2009 value of 3.31bn. In total, console software sales reached 1.45bn with growth on both Xbox 360 and PS3. Xbox 360 games sales hit 538m …

Nintendo DS was the best selling console of November in the US, according to NPD. Nintendo said its family of DS products sold 1.5 million units last month, driven by the new red SKU. Meanwhile, Xbox 360 was the biggest selling home console by shifting 1.37 million units – an …

32.4m current generation game consoles are now in circulation in the UK, according to Gfk Chart-Track. That means retail has sold 5.2m DS, Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 and PSP consoles this year. However, that’s a 26 per cent slowdown in hardware sales compared to 2009. For the same year-to-date period …

Specialist publisher Rising Star has once again expanded its portfolio with a popular Asian brand, this time in the form of Pucca. Originally a Flash-based mini-series, Pucca is follows the adventures of a noodle seller’s daughter and a ninja. It has branched out into TV shows, merchandings, clothes and toys …

The lucrative Black Friday shopping week has seemingly proved a very successful period for Nintendo.CVG reports that internal company estimates point to US sales of 900k units for DS and 600k units for Wii in the period between November 21st and November 27th. That represents total sales of 1.5m consoles …