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Award-winning Aardman animation Shaun the Sheep is set to shuffle onto DS this Christmas courtesy of D3 Publisher. The game will feature the much-loved characters from the series (including Shaun, Shirley, Timmy and Bitzer), along with areas and items based on the series. It’s also set to include touch screen …

The organisers of this year’s Handheld Learning Conference in October will give teachers that attend free Nintendo DS systems with a copy of Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training. The conference, now in its fourth year, explores how technologies that are becoming commonplace in the lives of young people are also being …

The market-leading handheld will receive a boost in a few weeks as three new SKUs and a high-profile new cooking title hit the shelves. Red, turquoise and green DS Lites will be launched on June 13th at around 99, while Japanese phenomenon Cooking Guide: Can’t Decide What To Eat? will …

Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has told Reuters that Nintendo is not planning on reducing the retail price of either Wii or DS this financial year. Speaking after the company’s record financial results yesterday, Iwata said: "Our earnings projection for the year is not based on hardware price cuts, and I …

Nintendo has reported that sales of its Nintendo DS console have hit 70.6 million units worldwide as part of its end-of-year fiscal results. 30.31 million units – over a third – were sold during its FY 2007-2008, which ended on March 31st. The FY result is up 7.1 per cent …

Nintendo has reported that its operating profit for FY 2007-2008 more than doubled on the previous year. For the fiscal year ended March 31st, operating profit jumped to a record 487.22 billion yen ($4.7 billion; €2.9 billion) from 226.02 billion yen ($2.18 billion; €1.39 billion) in 2006-2007. However, the Kyoto-based …

The success of Nintendo’s DS knows no bounds in Japan, with the console’s software sales hitting a stonking 100 million units in the territory since launch. As IGN points out, Nintendo software is now as popular in Japan as ‘The Sims is in the entire world’. The top ten best-selling …

Internet speculation has been rife that Nintendo are preparing to announce a new version of the DS at E3 this year, following comments made by Enterbrain boss. Nintendo has denied there is a new DS model in the works and the source of the original rumour Hirokazu Hamamura, Enterbrain president, …

As other national papers detail the Byron report, The Independent’s front page advertises its feature for the ten best video games. The feature, which can be found on page 24 of its extra supplement, claims that Sega’s Condemned 2 is the best video game of the moment, whilst Advance Wars: …

Nintendo will provide non-gaming public services via Wi-Fi to DS owners by summer this year. According to CEO Satoru Iwata, consumers will be able to download information from public Wi-Fi hotspots. It is yet to be seen how advertisers will be able to utilise the project – but special DS-only …