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Nintendo boss admits: Wii U could have had better launch

10.06.11
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's global president, seems slightly confused. This week, he unveiled the gaming giant's new console, the Wii U... more

Nintendo takes a tumble as Wii successor disappoints

08.06.11
Shares in Nintendo plunge 5% on the Tokyo stock market as it unveils its successor to the Wii at a major trade fair in Los Angeles... more

Hands-on Wii points to future of gaming

08.06.11
The Wii U looks as wacky as its name, as if Fisher Price had been asked to make an iPad for children... more

Nintendo desperate for 3DS success as profits tumble

27.01.11
Nintendo reports a 46% fall in quarterly profit, as sales of its DS handheld console tumbled ahead of the launch of a 3D model next month... more

Car trick stalls but JLS drive fans wild

10.12.10
Fans at the first of two JLS pre-Christmas O2 dates couldn’t get enough of the boyband’s harmonies, backflips and teasing banter... more

Nintendo faces fight of its life to keep lead in gaming

08.12.10
Nintendo faces a tough battle to boost growth as rivals snatch the lead in console gaming, just as competition from smartphones and tablets batters the handheld market... more

Console Wars: The games machines fighting over Christmas

08.10.10
With celebrity users ranging from the PM to Helen Mirren, computer games have never been more in vogue. And as Mark Prigg reports, that means fierce competition this Christmas... more

Boy, 16, locked up for stabbing teenager over Nintendo game

27.04.10
Boy who carried out his first stabbing at the age of 10 has been locked up for knifing a teenager in a row over a Nintendo Wii... more

Sony unveils latest controller

15.03.10
The battle for the future of computer games stepped up this week as Sony unveiled its latest controller, which aims to topple Nintendo’s Wii.... more

The Met's latest crime-buster - a Wii of Justice

17.02.10
In precincts around the capital, the Metropolitan Police is testing a new way of dealing with crime: It's a crime reporting console, a Wii of Justice if you will... more

Cheaper Wii and fall in DS sales hit Nintendo

28.01.10
Nintendo’s profits tumble with a fall in sales of its DS handheld games player and as the firm cuts the price of its Wii console... more

£10m fine for death by water

30.10.09
The family of a mother who died after drinking too much water in a radio competition has been awarded nearly £10million compensation... more

Nintendo Wii ‘set for a sales slide’

27.10.09
Nintendo’s Wii is close to market saturation and faces falling sales, analysts said today ahead of the console maker’s first-half earnings on Thursday... more

Front-room fitness - how to stay in shape at home

21.10.09
Can’t afford the gym any more? We put the new home workouts to the test... more

Game playing down its setback as profits dive

23.09.09
Seven million Britons added a games console to their home in the past 12 months, taking the total number of owners to 25 million ... more

Xbox camera mirrors players' movements on the screen

02.06.09
Microsoft sparked a high street computer games war by unveiling new games controller technology that it says is leaps ahead of the Nintendo Wii... more

Manhattan’s latest parental punishment

27.04.09
I have seldom been as relieved to read an article as one that appeared last week by New York Times writer Andrew Das... more

Addictive, but games disappoint

28.01.09
The success of Nintendo's Wii has shown that turning exercise into a game really can work, and walk with me is an excellent evolution of that idea. ... more

Lazy gamers can take a hike with Nintendo's latest fitness gadget

28.01.09
Nintendo will next month release its latest fitness gadget, which it hopes will repeat the huge success of its Wii Fit game... more

Sony cuts the cost of making PlayStation

30.12.08
Electronics: Consumer electronics giant Sony has reduced the cost of building the PlayStation game console by 35%, paving the way for a price cut next year... more

Minister: Wii the best boost for children's intelligence

29.12.08
Children who play computer games will do better at school than those who just sit and watch television, government minister Tom Watson claimed... more

Nintendo Wii at the top of it's game

09.12.08
Entertainment: The one bright spot in consumer electronics this Christmas looks set to be the hugely popular Wii games console... more

Game Group reports sales slowdown

02.12.08
Even the strongest on the High Street are vulnerable to the downturn in consumer spending. Game Group, the video games and consoles retailer, has reported a sharp slowdown in sales growth... more

Fit for Christmas, Nintendo Wii console tops the present wish-list

14.11.08
Computer games, mobile phone upgrades and budget mini-laptops are set to be the must have Christmas presents this year... more

Game beats the gloom at £33m

30.09.08
A rare area of boom on the High Street came as Game Group, the seller of video games and consoles, said first-half profits soared from £1.3 million to £33.4 million... more

Microsoft cuts console price

16.09.08
Microsoft has triggered a price war by cutting the cost of its Xbox 360 games console... more

Opoona: Kitsch, cute and trite

11.09.08
The bizarre Japanese obsession with infantile, role-playing adventures in which video game conventions are confounded by cuddly cuteness can often make for unexpectedly charming games.... more

HMV banks on strong Xmas to cheer sales

05.09.08
Retail: HMV is relying on a strong Christmas as the consumer crunch has started to hit its High Street entertainment and Waterstone's book stores... more

Wii wins in US for Nintendo

18.07.08
Nintendo's Wii games console has overtaken Microsoft's Xbox 360 as the leading games device in the US, having now sold 10.9 million consoles... more


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