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Nintendo has revealed that Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii sold over 500,000 units in its first week of sales in the US.

Nintendo of America has confirmed the release of two new DS Lite bundles for the US market.

Nintendo's DS handheld has sold over 20 million units in Japan since launch, according to data from Media Create.

The PlayStation 3 has overtaken the Nintendo Wii in the Japanese hardware sales chart, notching up 38 per cent more sales for the week ending November 11.

Mario Party DS for the Nintendo DS has debuted in the Japanese software chart at number one, according to the latest data from Media Create.

The eGames expo is preparing to open on Friday, with over 50 exhibitors and a host of new and unreleased titles on display.

Nintendo has responded to an analyst's claims that it has completed work on a new version of its DS Lite handheld, maintaining that it is "utter speculation."

Nintendo has disputed some of the Wii Software (WiiWare) details announced in an IGN podcast this week, which claimed that WiiWare titles would be capped at 40MB, that developers would set their own prices and be limited to releasing one game per month.

Developer InLight Entertainment believes that being a fun and affordable platform is key to the DS' success.

John Carmack believes the DS would make a great proving ground for upstart programmers if only platform holders didn't stifle homebrew development

Super Mario Galaxy for the Nintendo Wii has rocketed into the Japanese software chart at number one, selling over a quarter of a million units in its first week on sale.

A new in-school program uses basic characters and themes from Nintendo's Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl videogames to teach elementary and middle school students about science

Nintendo has said it is tackling a production bottleneck to ensure third-parties are able to get software on shelves in time for the busy holiday season

The Nintendo Wii is still outselling the PlayStation 3 by 2-to-1 in Japan, although the gap between the rival formats has closed for the fourth consecutive month.

Nintendo has told our sister sister <a type="ext" href="http://www.eurogamer.net/">Eurogamer.net</a> that it has no plans to release new Zelda and Nintendogs-themed DS bundles in Europe.

A Nintendo of America representative recently shot down rumours that the Nintendo Wii may be getting a hard drive to facilitate upcoming WiiWare titles

Nintendo has spent USD 40 million (EUR 27.7m) on print, TV and outdoor media advertising between January and June 2007, according to data from Nielsen Monitor-Plus.

A report from analyst iSuppli has concluded that Nintendo's software sales performance has overtaken that of Sony in the third quarter of 2007.

According to ChartTrack data confirmed by Nintendo, 4 million of the company's DS handheld systems have been sold in the UK

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has emphatically ruled out the possibility of a price cut for its flagship console, the Wii.

Nintendo's DS continued to sell more than any other games platform in Japan last week, although units sold dropped over ten per cent on the previous week.

Sony Corporation, which released its latest financial results yesterday, saw its share prices rise as a result of strong revenues - but that was without any help from the company's games division.

Nintendo has announced its half year financial results to September 30 and it's more extremely good news for the Wii and DS manufacturer.

Nintendo has announced the hiring of two new executive vice presidents for its Silicon Valley office

Nintendo of America's outgoing vice president of marketing says that the company is "starting to look at the annual calendar differently" in terms of release date timing, rather than just stuffing everything in Q4.