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Nintendo will release a new 2DS hardware SKU in Europe next month. The bundle will include the red and white variant of the 2DS, a 4GB memory card as well as a digital copy of New Super Mario Bros 2. It will also include all of the game’s ten post-release …

A new Vita bundle has been confirmed for PAL territories including the UK. The Action Mega Pack SKU includes five games – Injustice: Gods Among Us – Ultimate Edition, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, PlayStation Allstars: Battle Royale, God of War: Chain of Olympus and Killzone: Liberation. It is available as …

Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs has become the best-selling new IP ever in the UK. UKIE Gfk Chart-Track says that the game beat the previous week one sales record for a new IP held by Rockstar’s 2011 crime hit LA Noire by an amazing 58 per cent. It also becomes the 17th …

Sony’s has bucked traditional hardware sales modelling by achieving a profit on each PS4 sold just six months after launch. Back in September the company said it would make a loss on each launch unit sold, although this would be recouped proving customers also purchased a game and a PlayStation …

Global games retailer GameStop has seen sales and earnings have shot up after an expectation-hitting Q1. Total global sales for the quarter ended May 3rd climbed seven per cent to $2bn with like-for-like store sales jumping 5.8 per cent. Net earnings grew 24.5 per cent to $68m The retailer said …

Microsoft even toyed with the idea of building the Kinect into the Xbox One itself, Xbox One hardware designerCarl Ledbetter has said. That would have made it a permanent, non-removable feature – and prevented the recent uncoupling of Kinect and console. We actually built models of that,” he said.We pushed …

The Atari brand means many things to many people, but above all else it remains a hardware brand. That’s according to new CEO Frederic Chesnais who told VentureBeat that while a successor to the Atari 2600 may not be on the cards the company does occupy a special position in …

Microsoft today announced that it will sell the Xbox One without Kinect. The Kinect-less Xbox One has long been requested by fans, and will now arrive in countries where the console is already being sold starting 9th June. It will be priced the same as the PS4 i.e. $399. Microsoft …

Satoru Iwata has confirmed to investor that the company already knows what it has planned for its follow-up to the struggling Wii U. We are preparing for our next hardware system,” the Nintendo president told investors. In fact, we already have a clear idea to some extent about the direction …

Nintendo is to develop a completely new console designed specifically to target China and other emerging economies. Bloomberg reports that Nintendo has opted for a brand new machine rather than trying to rustle together a cut-down version of an existing machine such as the Wii U. We want to make …