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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the 'Smart Phone/Tablet Games Global Market Report 2021: COVID-19 Impact and Recovery to 2030' report to its offerings. In a release, Research [...]

Nintendo (NTDOY) Switch game 'The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD' has reached the top spot in its debut week in terms of physical unit sales in the U.K. for [...]

NPD analyst Mat Piscatella said that, in the U.S., Sony's (SONY) PS5 exclusive 'Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart' debuted as June's best-selling game, achieving the highest launch month dollar sales [...]

Nintendo's (NTDOY) latest game 'Mario Golf: Super Rush' is this week's best-selling physical video game in the U.K., Gamesindustry.biz's Christopher Dring reports. The title had a relatively modest rollout for [...]

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Capcom's (CCOEY) 'Resident Evil: Village' has retaken the top spot in terms of U.K. physical game sales, despite a 61% drop week-on-week, Gamesindustry.biz's Marie Dealessandri reports. The horror game had [...]

Capcom's (CCOEY) latest game 'Resident Evil: Village' has achieved the number one spot in this week's U.K. boxed game sales charts, Gamesindustry.biz's Christopher Dring reports, citing GfK entertainment. The action [...]

Microsoft (MSFT) had previously considered lowering its Xbox store cut to just 12%, The Verge's Tom Warren reports, citing confidential documents filed in the Epic Games vs. Apple (AAPL) case. [...]

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Byline: AnimationXpress Team Pocoyo Party, Pocoyo's videogame for PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, will launch simultaneously in Europe and the entire American continent this coming April. The physical format will be [...]

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Video game platform Roblox Corporation is working with investment banks to prepare to go public in the U.S. in a listing that could arrive in early 2021, Reuters' Anirban Sen, [...]

Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei index rose for a fourth consecutive session Friday on a weak yen, but early gains were largely erased by profit-taking. The Nikkei 225 index edged up 0.17 [...]

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When we were younger, most people lived in Nintendo, Sega and Sony households. As such, you probably have fond memories of your NES, SNES, Genesis or PlayStation. At least, that's [...]

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The Electronic Entertainment Expo, one of the biggest video game conferences scheduled for June in Los Angeles, is being canceled amid coronavirus fears, Bloomberg's Dina Bass reports. The cancellation of [...]

You have until March 6th to try and nab a (https://www.engadget.com/2015/11/06/nintendo-playstation-is-real-and-it-works/) working Nintendo PlayStation prototype -- one of the rarest relics of lost gaming history -- and it'll only cost [...]

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Christian Petersen/Getty Images This holiday, the next-generation Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox video game consoles are scheduled to arrive. Sony's PlayStation 5 and Microsoft's Xbox Series X are largely known [...]

Microsoft no longer sees PlayStation-maker Sony and Nintendo as the biggest competition for its Xbox platform.Phil Spencer, Microsoft's head of gaming, said he now considered Amazon and Google as his [...]

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The 10-year challenge swept social media in January, with people posting images of themselves from 2009 and 2019, usually accompanied by a cute remark about things being the same yet [...]

Ben Gilbert/Business Insider With 2019 wrapping up, we're looking back at the last 10 years in gaming. From revered sequels like 'Mass Effect 2' to precedent-setting new franchises like 'The [...]

For years it was the stuff of legend -- a games console that incorporated both a CD drive and SNES cartridge slot made with the official backing of PlayStation and [...]

With all the hype of E3 over, it was time for reality to sink in--and that might not have been of comfort to Sony, as developers appeared worried about the [...]

When Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime walked out onto the E3 stage in 2004, he introduced himself to the audience by telling them, 'I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and [...]

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