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Nine months into Sony’s current financial year and the PS3 has already outstripped its total sales for the 2009 fiscal year, Sony has reported. Year-to-date sales of the machine now stand at 15m – 2m units ahead of the total 2009 sales figure. Q3 sales reached 6.3m units, which is …

Video games trade association UKIE has championed the role of UK developers in the early success of both Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s Move. In the ten weeks ending January 15th 2011, games made by UK developers account for 42 per cent of Kinect software sales in the UK. The best …

Ubisoft is Kinect’s most successful third-party publisher in EMEA, the company has told MCV. The publisher’s trio of Kinect games – Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, Motion Sports and Fighters Uncaged – has given the firm a 20 per cent market share on Microsoft’s motion controller. The news follows NPD’s US …

Nintendo earlier this week said 25-30 games will hit during the 3DS launch window – but MCV can reveal that means around 10 titles will be on shelves from day one. The console hits shelves on March 25th. But retail sources have told us already that Nintendogs + cats, Street …

Though we won’t know anything concrete about 3DS pricing until next Wednesday’s announcement event in Amsterdam, retailers have begun listing the first 3DS titles online – with mixed predictions about their RRP. We discovered earlier in the week that 3DS games will cost more than DS titles, which carry a …

The 3DS is just weeks away and, as revealed earlier this week, the true successor to the PSP will be with us by the end of the year. But rather than just the clash of two hardware formats, 2011’s handheld confrontation is going to be fought on an entirely different …

As part of its NPD stat-fest last night, platform holder Microsoft has confirmed two notable sales victories for its motion sensing camera peripheral Kinect. Speaking on Twitter, chief of staff for Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business Aaron Greenberg confirmed that both Rare-developer Kinect Sports and Harmonix made dance game Dance Central …

Despite not arriving until November, Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has been named by NPD as the best selling game of 2010 in the US. The success mirrors the dominance shown by the shooter on this side of the Atlantic. And also echoing the UK charts, EA’s football game …

Software for the Nintendo 3DS will be region locked in much the same way as DVDs, consumer blog VG247 is reporting. In recent years the portable market has been free of region coding, with software for both the DS and PSP being (on the whole) universally compatible across all territories. …

Gamers can expect regular software releases to be very much the norm with its upcoming 3DS handheld, according to Nintendo president Saturo Iwata. Speaking to a Japanese newspaper, as translated by Andriasang, Iwata made the following pledge: "It’s important that you be able to supply software with no pause. With …