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Nintendo has told a European Union court that a €149.1 million ($232 million) fine handed to them by EU regulators for price fixing in 2002 was unjustified. The European Commission fined Nintendo and seven distributors a total of €167.8 million for colluding between 1991 and 1998 to raise prices of …

The three main console manufacturers are not doing enough to eliminate potentially harmful chemicals and metals from their consoles, Greenpeace has said. According to the BBC, the body examined materials used inside the PS3, 360 and Wii and found that, while all three machines complied with European laws, they contained …

Nintendo’s WiiWare service has made its European debut – and, as promised, there are six downloadable titles available to consumers to choose from on launch day. The service launched in Japan in March and in the US last week. Key games available from today include Lost Winds from UK developer …

New worldwide research has revealed that the brand power of PlayStation is as strong as ever, as it remains the aspirational console of choice for teens. Nearly 60,000 teenagers between the ages of 11 and 18 across 31 markets took part in a survey conducted by youth-oriented virtual world Habbo, …

Laurent Fischer, managing director of marketing and PR at Nintendo of Europe, has joined the chorus of executives at core games firms which say they don’t like the name of ‘casual gaming’, yesterday telling MCV sister site CasualGaming.biz that the games audience consists of people who are either a gamer …

Nintendo has been found guilty of infringing on a patent while designing controllers for GameCube and Wii. The hardware developer has been told to pay Texas-based gaming company Anascape $21 million, the Associated Press reports. The jury found that Nintendo infringed on Anascape’s patent during the design process for the …

London conference to address educational uses of portable devices

Studios such as Frontier and Gameloft lead the charge for Euro roll out of download service

Frontier's Lost Winds and Nnooo's Pop launch games for Nintendo download service

Casualgaming.biz reports that a patent has been filed by Apple for a device that appears to mimic the functionality of Nintendo’s Wii Remote. The patent reads: ‘The absolute x- and y-positions of [the] remote control can be used, for example, in video games to position a user’s character or to …