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Nintendo’s boss of development and games industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto has questioned the belief that a digital-only future for games retail is inevitable. The thing for us is we really don’t see the future of video games being merely confined to digital distribution or moving solely or even to a …

Nintendo has become the latest video games company to suffer significant year-on-year declines, with net profits down 60.6 per cent in Q1 2009-2010 to YEN 42 billion, compared to YEN 107 billion in the same period a year before. The firm this morning reported operating profits of YEN 40bn for …

Ubisoft has seen Q1 revenue generated by DS titles fall by a huge 67 per cent in the last year. CEO Yves Guillemot reveled the news in the publisher’s Q1 fiscal results announced yesterday. Ubisoft’s share of the DS software market has remained exactly the same, however – suggesting that …

Namco Bandai Partners has announced that Ghostbusters will arrive in Europe on October 26th for Xbox 360, DS, PC and Wii. The titles were originally scheduled for release in June, before Sony secured publishing rights for the PlayStation games – forcing the other SKUs to get pushed back. Ghostbusters was …

Assassin’s Creed: Discovery will hit shelves on November 20th for Nintendo DS. As revealed in Ubisoft’s latest release schedule, the game will launch alongside Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines on PSP and Assassin’s Creed 2 on Xbox 360, PC and PS3. The games are part of Ubisoft’s blockbuster Christmas 2009 line-up, which …

Disney Interactive is publishing a game based on the classic Louis Carroll book Alice in Wonderland. The game is to be released as a tie-in to the Walt Disney Pictures’ film of the same name, which stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska, and is directed …

The second prong in EA’s three-tiered reinvention of its massively popular Need for Speed series has been given a firm release date in the UK and US. Need for Speed: Nitro, the Wii and DS versions of the racing series, will be released in the UK on November 20th. The …

As games markets on both the near and far sides of the Atlantic stutter in the face of barren release schedules and a thinning H2’09 lineup, proof of the positive overall effect of proper triple-A software has made itself evident on the far side of the globe. The increasingly difficult …

Amidst the gloom of yet more annual falls in the US video games market, hardware sales for June were better than expected hitting $1.7m – NPD had expected that number to be around $1.55m. As always, Nintendo’s machines were the star performers with DS shifting 766,500 units and the Wii …

Tomy has published its first video game in the UK – the initial step in its quest to steal significant sales share in the DS and Wii market. Lovely Lisa, a DS mini-game collection based on the popular Japanese doll Licca-Chan, has been released through Mastertronic, with a price point …