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Three million units of Michael Jackson: The Experience have been sold worldwide, MCV can reveal. In the UK alone the game has sold 319,000 units to date according to GfK Chart-Track. The numbers include sales on Wii, DS and PSP. Ubisoft’s dance game is now set to get a boost …

Nintendo has signed a deal with One Direction which will see the popular boy band feature in a TV campaign for Pokemon Black and Pokemon White. The X-Factor finalists will also be acting as Pokemon ‘brand ambassadors’ – appearing at a series of special events and meeting fans. The first …

Pokmon Black and White have sold 3m copies in the US and Europe within their first two weeks on sale. By mid-March the two new Nintendo DS games had sold 1m copies in Europe alone. They have become the fastest-selling games in the series, bringing Europe’s total install base for …

Nintendo has declared itself happy with the 3DS’ opening weekend sales of 113,000, even though the figure falls some way short of pre-launch expectations. Last week the firm announced that pre-orders alone stood at 140,000 and most pundits were pitching their sell-through estimates at between 150,000 to 200,000. It would …

Almost every games platform on the market saw declining hardware sales this week. This is most likely due to the ongoing impact of the recent earthquake. Reports have emerged that the PSP has been suffering from supply problems, but it is unclear how much the disaster has played in this. …

Pokmon Black and White have sold 1m units across Europe since the pair hit shelves on March 4th. The new DS adventure titles beat the previous Pokmon sales record in the UK to become the fastest-selling games in the series. Europe’s total install base for Pokmon titles has also now …

Joint sales of Pokemon Black/White reached 1.08m copies on their first day of release in the US, Nintendo has announced. The numbers make it the most successful day one ever for a new Pokemon title in the territory, beating the previous 780k record laid down by Diamond/Pearl in 2007. Black/White …

Yesterday two of the most important companies in games and technology, Nintendo and Apple, held keynotes back to back. The Nintendo keynote at GDC primarily concerned the 3DS and filling out its marketing story, while across town Apple unveiled the iPad 2 and its particular brand of fanfare. However, something …

The stars of next month’s highly anticipated Pokmon games are already on shelves – in trading card form. Released earlier this week, the Zoroark: World of Illusions gift box marked the beginning of a major retail marketing drive for Pokmon Black and White. The company behind the Pokmon Trading Card …

The game adaptation of kids’ movie Rango is getting a huge ad campaign courtesy of EA. There will be advertisements running online, on TV and in cinemas, with dedicated game spots running at the end of ads for the film. This is on top of a range of retail POS …