Nintendo just announced its quarterly sales for the end of 2006. Sales for the 9 months were up 72%, while net income was up 43%. They have a war chest of $7.1 billion in cash, down from $10.86 billion a year ago due to the weak Dollar ($1 is a mere 115 Yen after conversion)….

Sony just announced its PlayStation unit will start developing games together with Namco Bandai to help take marketshare from Microsoft and Nintendo. Which seems bold of them to say as (a minority of) Namco Bandai is in fact partly owned by Nintendo. Namco Bandai will own 51% of the venture, named Cellius, with Sony holding…

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced that PlayStation 3 will be launched, with initially only the 60GB model, in the PAL territories of Europe including the United Kingdom on 23rd March 2007 at a price of £425. See the PAL variable PS3 prices here. An expected one million PS3 units will be made available…

NCsoft has come out with the ninth free expansion to the City of Heroes and City of Villains universes. “Breakthrough” introduces an entirely new level of depth and gameplay to the games. Players acquire and invent new items and have the option to buy and sell them using the new hero and villain auction houses….

The latest issue of Nintendo Power magazine lists the release date for Super Paper Mario as April 2007. This news comes after last September we got confirmation Super Paper Mario would be making the jump from GameCube to Wii. Mario finds himself in the interdimensional town of flipside as a black hole looms overhead along…

Beyond the current library of 34 new Wii titles that since recently includes Nintendo’s WarioWare: Smooth Moves and the Virtual Console’s 42 games that was joined by The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past this week. The schedule for upcoming Wii releases in the first 3 months of ’07 includes: January 27: Wii…

Out of the 8 million worldwide World of Warcraft (WoW) players, 2.4 million picked up the PC game at launch (Blizzard shipped 4 million), out of the 5,000 stores that were open for the midnight launch, an HMV store in London, UK, outdid them all with over 3,000 people lining up! To be more exact…

Ed Boon, the Mortal Kombat co-creator and creative director on Armageddon, explains how you’ll be using the Wii Remote and Nunchuck controller with the game by doing simple motions. Mind you, it’s only one of three control options with the others being the GameCube and Classic controllers for good old button bashing. As for the…

Atari announced the development of two new Dragon Ball Z titles for 2007 release, Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai: Another Road for the PSP and Dragon Ball Z Harukanaru Densetsu for Nintendo DS. Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai: Another Road is the sequel to Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai, one of the best selling PSP…

Good news for PS2 Grand Theft Auto fans, they’ll be getting one last GTA game before the PS3 sequel comes out in October. While Rockstar four months ago in 2006 promised that the PSP game GTA Vice City Stories would stay exclusive to the portable, PSPfanboy has now found a game rating of M for…

Thanks to jj984jj for translating this Japanese Nintendo Dream magazine with the director of the DS exclusive game The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Eiji Aonuma. Question: How is the DS version going? Answer: The DS version is coming along really nicely. It’s a small team of less than ten people, and while the rest…

Thanks to Reetesh for sending in this GamePro magazine interview with the creator/director of the PS3 exclusive game Metal Gear Solid 4, Hideo Kojima. GamePro [GP]: I thought we could open up with some questions concerning the storyline of MGS4. [Hideo Kojima grins and chuckles.] GP: We were looking at various influences and inspirations to…