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The US video games market suffered a slight one per cent year-on-year decrease in July, with a total value reaching $846.5m. Hardware sales – driven by a great performance from the Xbox 360 Slim – were up 12 per cent at $313.8m, though software sales fell eight per cent to …

Sequel to popular Star Wars title canceled on Sonyâ??s handheld

Buyers of Activision’s Wii remake of Goldeneye 007 will have the chance to grab a golden joystick of their own when it hits shelves later this year. The Goldeneye 007 Classic Edition comes bundled with a copy of the game and a gold Classic Controller Pro, as inspired by 1974 …

Nintendo has revealed that total unit sales of the Wii console have now passed 30m in the US in the 45 months that the machine has been on the market. More than any other videogame system in history, Wii has expanded the world of videogames to new audiences,” Nintendo of …

Publisher Sega has confirmed that Wii and DS platform title Sonic Colours will be released in the UK on November 12th. The game blends 2D game design with 3D visual mechanics to produce a result that harks back to the IP’s ‘golden days’ while still offering a visual standard more …

Wii and DS owners will soon be able to get their hands on the first game to be made by a hairdresser. Busy Scissors will be published in North America by new US publisher Little Orbit, with Namco Bandai Partners distributing the game in Europe this October. Unlike the plethora …

Screen Digest analyst Piers Harding-Rolls has predicted that Nintendo could release an ‘upgraded’ version of the Nintendo Wii in the near future that would act as a stop-gap between now and the launch of a ‘proper’ successor to its home console some time in 2013. We expect the Wii to …

Company president explains the need for secrecy in building the next Nintendo console

Game Trading Technologies Inc has announced that it is to launch its first ever games peripheral. Now it has confirmed that it has designed, developed a produced what it describes as a revolutionary plastic hockey stick that will be bundled with a new multi-player hockey video game for the Nintendo …

Looking to follow on from the template laid down by Sony’s LittleBigPlanet, the EA Play label has announced a brand new console title called Create that takes the idea of user-created content and constructs an entire level-based game around it. Developed by EA Bright Light, Create focuses on the creation …