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Electronics giant Panasonic has announced a surprise return to the games sector with a brand new handheld called Jungle. The clamshell device sports a full QWERTY keyboard and touchpad as well as an HD screen, d-pad and shoulder buttons. It’s being pitched very much as an online-centric device, and includes …

Next-gen successors to Microsoft and Sony’s powerhouse consoles would benefit from no longer being tethered to the living room TV, the vice president of Epic Games has said. Imagine a future Xbox 360 that is actually a tablet you carry around,” said Mark Rein in a new interview with Develop. …

Steve Jobs has used tonight’s iPod-centric press gathering to signal a new era in portable gaming – and it’s one that the outspoken Apple CEO claims complete ownership of. In a sharp change of tact from his previously reserved approach to the handheld gaming sector, a bolshy Steve Jobs claimed …

A report entitled ‘Kids and Games: What Boys and Girls are Playing Today’ by M2 Research claims that 93 per cent of girls aged 8-11 play online games. For boys the number is 91 per cent. It adds that while Nintendo still dominates the portable games space, the growing popularity …

Traditional handheld games consoles are in decline with 1m fewer devices produced this year compared to 2009. The drop has been attributed to the rise in popularity of mobile phones equipped to play games and other forms of entertainment. Research shows handheld consoles will decline 2.5 per cent to 38.9m …

The Nintendo 3DS won’t change in appearance before it hits shelves next year, the publisher has confirmed. When asked whether the look of the 3DS will change before release, Nintendo’s veteran game producer Hideki Konno told Wired: You can take this as the final shape.” The first DS was initially …

With every machine aside from Sony’s PS3 currently facing year-on-year sales losses, Nintendo has claimed a surprising reason for the decline the handheld market – recent releases for the Wii. Whilst Nintendo DS sales in Europe were lower than the previous year, Nintendo’s share in the handheld market has not …

28,772,303,165.695 – that’s the amount that a recent study by Japanese trade body The Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association reckons piracy has cost the global handheld video games industry.Andriasang reports that the number comes from the joint efforts of the Tokyo Game Show organisers and Tokyo University’s Baba Lab and relates …

28,772,303,165.695 – that’s the amount that a recent study by Japanese trade body The Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association reckons piracy has cost the global handheld video games industry.Andriasang reports that the number comes from the joint efforts of the Tokyo Game Show organisers and Tokyo University’s Baba Lab and relates …

The PS3 may be on a seemingly unstoppable upwards sales trend right now, but turn your attention to PSPgo and it’s a completely different story. Concrete sales numbers are hard to come by, but solid numbers for Australia have been published showing that since its launch in October the digital-only …