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US analyst Michael Pachter believes that the PS Vita will achieve what the PSP did not and eat into Nintendo’s handheld market share. However, it’s not all good news – he also predicts that the overall portable games market will decline at the expense of smartphone gaming growth. "We continue …

The Nintendo 3DS’ new game line-up is heating up with Cooking Mama 4 due in the UK on November 11th. Publisher 505 Games has confirmed that the latest title in the 8m+ selling cooking simulation series will be out in time for Christmas. It joins a host of other 3DS …

Nintendo’s 3DS has now passed the 1m unit sales barrier in Japan. However, as reported by Andriasang, it took the machine 13 weeks to reach the milestone. Its predecessor the DS managed the same in just four weeks. Other iterations of the DS have also been quicker out of the …

Shuhei Yoshida, the head of Sony Worldwide Studios, has casually dismissed Nintendo’s efforts with the 3DS as the pre-E3 mud-slinging gets into full speed. "When we were designing the NGP we had no idea what Nintendo was going to do," he told GamesIndustry. "Aside from the 3D stereoscopic display, they …

There’s something to be said for diversity. Activision, the house of Call of Duty, has announced a brand new and somewhat adventurous IP – Wappy Dog. Developed by Sega Toys, Wappy Dog is actually a robotic toy that communicates with an owner’s DS. It marks Activision’s second foray into the …

The hunger for dance-based games shows no sign of abating with news that Ubisoft’s upcoming licensed Smurfs game will be another addition to the genre. The Smurfs Dance Party, which is based on the licence for Sony Pictures Animation’s 3D movie, will be released on Wii in July. "The Smurfs …

Online indie retailer Gameseek is taking pre-orders on both Wii and DS versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Although the game has yet to be officially announced, several retailers are already taking pre-orders for the game on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. But Gameseek reckons it will also …

April has been a very kind month. In the UK we get glorious weather, in the US they get an excellent performance from video games at retail. The latest NPD numbers show that the month was 20 per cent up on the same period in 2010, reaching a total value …

Mobile analytics agency Flurry has claimed that the combined forces of Apple iOS and Google Android are eating into Nintendo’s handheld market share. Between 2009 and 2010 Flurry estimates that Nintendo’s marketshare in the US portable gaming market fell 13 per cent to 57 per cent overall. PSP fell two …

Nintendo’s DS was the best selling console in the US last month, according to the latest report from stats body NPD. Overall the American physical games market fell four per cent to $1.53bn. Software fell 16 per cent to $735.4m. Overall hardware sales were up 12 per cent compared to …