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Sony's 1998 portable gaming plans revealed
PlayStation Portable (PSP) is not the first time that Sony has developed a handheld gaming system, it has emerged, with a Japanese business publication revealing details of the company's one-time plans to release a portable platform in 2000.
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EA shares hit all-time high as analysts raise industry targets
A number of games companies are making a strong showing on the stock markets following positive reports from key analysts - with Electronic Arts today hitting its highest share price of all time, and significant gains expected across the industry.
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UK Charts: Matrix holds off SOCOM for top slot
Enter The Matrix maintained its fifth straight week at the top of the UK All Formats chart this week, refusing to buckle under the pressure of some big new releases including Sony's PS2 online adapter and its launch titles.
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Cube protection cracked by pirates?
Hackers working on breaking the copy protection systems employed by Nintendo's GameCube have caused a stir by posting binary images of several Cube games to the Internet - but their claims are more than slightly exaggerated.
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Portable Dreamcast being mass-produced in Hong Kong
A Hong-Kong based manufacturer is producing a portable version of Sega's discontinued Dreamcast console, featuring a built in LCD monitor and speakers - but many importers are refusing to stock the machine as it infringes Sega's copyrights.
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Japan Charts: Sega's J-League soccer title lifts the software market
The Japanese leisure software market has seen its first really major release in weeks, with Sega's "Let's Make J-League Pro Soccer Club! 3" managing sales of over a quarter of a million units in its first week on sale.
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Nintendo bullish despite disappointing Cube performance
Speaking in an interview with French newspaper Les Echos, Nintendo communications director Yasuhiro Minagawa has struck out at critics, pointing at the company's strong profits and expressing confidence in the GBA's performance against N-Gage and PSP.
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New bidder emerges for Vivendi Games
A new potential buyer has emerged for Vivendi's entertainment properties, including the Vivendi Universal Games division, with Edgar Bronfman Jr - the man who sold Universal Entertainment to Vivendi three years ago - expressing an interest in the company.
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This is NOT the PS3 logo
A number of websites this morning have reported that this image is the first glimpse of Sony's logo for PlayStation 3, unveiled at a meeting with RAM supplier Elpida - but the logo is actually a mock-up created by UK magazine PSM2.
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Videogames market to be worth $35.8 billion by 2007
A new study by market analysts PricewaterhouseCoopers has forecast that the videogames industry will grow in net worth to $35.8 billion by 2007, fuelled by major advances in online gaming thanks to broadband, and in wireless gaming thanks to new mobile ph
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N-Gage boss slams GBA, reveals business model details
Nokia's head of entertainment and media, Ilkka Raiskinen, has attacked Nintendo's GBA in today's Dow Jones, accusing the system of failing to appeal to adult demographics, and has revealed some details of the development business model for N-Gage.
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Slight pricedrop for Cube in Canada
Nintendo has knocked CA$30 (about €18) off the price of the GameCube in Canada, bringing it down to CA$199.99 (€125) in a move which has prompted speculation that the USA will also shortly see a price adjustment.
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Titus renegotiates debts, but cashflow problems loom
French publisher Titus Interactive has successfully renegotiated a significant part of its outstanding debts, convincing bondholders to accept extensions of the expiry dates of their bonds by well over a decade to 2020.
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<i>gi</i>'s Summer Report on UK software sales
As we enter the slow summer months, <i>gi.biz</i>'s resident stat-freak Kristan Reed looks back over the year to date and finds out which games and platforms have been the real winners and losers of 2003 in the UK charts.
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ECTS 2003 brings back the big names
This year's ECTS, which runs once again at Earls Court from the 27th to the 29th of August, is promising to build on last year's improvements to the format - with many major publishers back on the show floor.
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GBA SP tops a million in the USA
Nintendo's redesigned handheld console, the GBA SP, has sold through some 1.1 million units in the USA in the ten weeks since it was launched - which means it's been selling ten units a minute non-stop, fact fans.
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UK Charts: A month at the top for Enter the Matrix
Atari's film tie-in Enter The Matrix is on top of the UK all-formats chart for a fourth week, thanks to strong performance on PS2 and Xbox - but elsewhere the market is largely stagnant once again, with no major new releases.
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"Mixed messages" over Half-Life 2 on Xbox
Comments made by Microsoft's David Hufford in an interview with American City Business Journals have cast doubts over whether Valve's Half-Life 2 will appear on Xbox after all, despite assurances last month that a version for the console is in development
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SCi reports record turnover for first half
UK-based publisher SCi has announced its results for the first half of fiscal 2003, revealing record turnover of £7.3 million and significantly lower than expected losses - with a strong development schedule pointing to further growth.