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Tough year for Konami but better things are ahead, it insists
Konami has reported annual declines to its net revenue, operating income and net income.
Nintendo's digital sales stand at £75.6m for current financial year
Digital sales across Nintendo platforms currently stand at ¥11.1bn for the current financial year.
OPINION: Will 2013 be the year that everything changes?
The 1990s. The Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive. The Game Boy and the Gamegear (or the Atari Lynx, if you like).
Namco Bandai profits rise 20%
Namco Bandai has generated gross profit of £1.3bn (¥167.5bn) for its financial year ending March 2012, but expects fewer games to arrive over the next 12 months.
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Top Ten games TV campaigns: 2011 vs 2012
Games and consoles TV advertising has experienced a 25 per cent year-on-year decline in activity from the start of 2012 to March 11th.
Sega to downsize, axe certain games
Sega is expecting a loss of £54m (¥7.1bn) as it restructures its US and European operations.
2011 REVIEW: Let's raise a glass to games
There’s no end to the list of adversities the games industry had to fend off in the last 12 months to ensure a prosperous 2011.
Angry Birds rules the roost on the Apple App Store
At this time every year, Apple releases 'Rewind', its annual year-end lists for music, movies, TV shows, podcasts and apps.
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3DS beats DS year one sales numbers
Despite a troubled start to its life, Nintendo’s 3DS has after just eight months on the market beaten the year one sales numbers of its predecessor the DS.
Ten-year low for UK games retail
Looters kicked the UK games retail market while it was down last week, as the sector posted its worst results in ten years.
Asia growth sees Tesco profits rise
Retail powerhouse Tesco has reported a surge in profits for its financial year ending February 28th 2011.
Xbox 360 poised to overtake Wii
Back in September 2010 Microsoft made the bold claim that "there's been a mid-generation leadership change" in the hardware market. Now it looks like it might just have been right.
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GAME posts 9.7% UK sales decline in 2010
The GAME Group has reported a total sales decline of 12.3 per cent for the 49 weeks ending January 8th in the UK and Ireland.
EA: Digital to overtake physical in 2011
The switch from boxed to digital goods is going to happen far quicker than most of the industry has expected, according to EA CEO John Riccitiello.
Quotes of the Year
“Getting mad at Activision for this kind of thing is like getting mad at an ape for throwing faeces. It’s just how the beast communicates.”
Tim Schafer chips in on ...
Most Popular Stories of 2010 – Comments
For an online publisher the idea of letting your readers have their say is, to be brutally frank, a little scary. But sometimes it’s you, the reader, that very much ...
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Bumper year for BioWare
2011 will be a landmark 12 months for developer BioWare as it prepares three big titles for the year.
2010 Review – October-December
The Q4 sales season arrives with huge performances from Black Ops and FIFA 11. There’s less good news for industry favourite Tim Langdell, however, whose legal tirade is finally ended.
2010 Review – July-September
As ‘Antennagate’ rumbled on Apple responded with one of the most astonishing press releases ever released – not that any of it stopped the iPhone 4 outselling Microsoft’s Kin by ...
November’s 1m game shortfall
UK games retail sold 1m fewer games during November than it did during the same period in 2009, according to GfK Chart-Track data.
UKIE: A year to remember
2010 will be remembered as a tough but successful year for the video game industry. It was the year that saw casual and online games played through social networks emerge ...
Take-Two achieves non-GTA profit
A long-term goal was finally achieved at the offices of publisher Take-Two last night - it was able to announce a year of overall profit without releasing a Grand Theft ...
Ubi plots 10-year plan for Assassin's Creed
As sales of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood lead the brand past the 20m sales milestone, Ubisoft wants to maintain the momentum behind the franchise.
GT5 closes major year for gaming
Gran Turismo 5 will ensure 2010 ends with a bang as the last triple-A smash hit to roll out before Christmas.
GT5 ‘to be PS3’s best 2010 seller’
With a concrete release date now nailed down, retailer ShopTo.net has predicted that Gran Turismo 5 will be the biggest selling PS3 game of 2010.
