The year-end report for video games held surprises as next-generation systems took a back seat to the old standbys.Nintendo Europe has announced that in one year and ten months, the Nintendo DS has sold through ten million units on the continent, making it the fastest ever gaming hardware to do so.The contrasting fortunes of two of the biggest players in the global gaming market were underlined today when Sony announced a 94% plunge in profits for the most recent quarter, while Nintendo said its profits over the first half of the fiscal year had more than tripled.Activision has announced that Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam for Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance is now available at retail stores nationwide.Designed to be used with games like Metroid Prime: Hunters and Pokemon Diamond & Pearl, the headset lets you talk to other players through Nintendo's WiFi enabled DS. The headset goes into the little hole next to the headphone port.Your lonely PSP can have GPS and digital camera soon, but no full keyboard yetNintendo UK chief David Yarnton has promised that the launch of the Nintendo Wii will be the company's biggest ever!Wow! After over a year of flustering, flummoxing and thwarting the most quick-witted emulation programmers, the No$GBA guys have finally cracked Nintendo DS commercial roms and gotten them to run in emulated form.Games company Electronic Arts claim they want to produce more games for the Nintendo DS after being impressed by the success of the handheld console.Get involved with www.xploder.net and upload your latest gamesaves now!25 per cent increase should help to meet global demand for DS LiteEarlier this month, we heard rumours that the Nintendo Wii might act as a download station for the Nintendo DS!LIGHT, white, and the screen's very bright. That sums up the differences between the new Nintendo DS Lite handheld games console and its older sibling, the DS, which launched here early last year.The continued strong sales of Nintendo's DS and DS Lite handheld consoles in Japan have brought the system to the verge of having sold 2.5 million units in the country in the latest set of regional hardware figures, with over a week left in the first half of the year.It seems the craving for new Mario games is increasing if sales figures for the latest New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS are to be believed.So when will you be able to buy the redesigned version of the Nintendo DS?Metal Gear Solid 4 and Rumble Roses XX lead Tokyo line-up on new formats, as Konami looks aheadMetal Gear Solid 4 debuts, Subsistence's online modes revealed, and all-new Metal Gear Acid features on show4Kings announce "Meet The Gamer" in Asia. 4Kings, the UK's only professional gaming team sponsored by Intel, are pleased to announce a week's tour of Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore to promote gaming in Asia.Official signing ceremony held at the Autodromo Nazional Monza, venue for 2006 Grand Final and world famous racing circuit for Formula One Italian Grand Prix World Cyber Games brings the Grand Final to European cyber gamers and e-Sports fans |
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