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Can the 3DS XL lead to stronger August sales?

July a slow month for the gaming industry

By Scott Nichols published

The latest NPD report shows sales were down across the video game industry last month.

Consoles & PC
Google selling 200,000 Android-powered smartphones every day

Google: 200,000 Android phones being sold a day

By Adam Hartley published

Google CEO Eric Schmidt claims that 200,000 Google Android phones are currently being sold every day.

Phones
Apple claims that iPhones are still outselling Android phones, questions veracity of recent NPD sales research

Apple says iPhones still outsell Google Phones

By Adam Hartley published

Apple has questioned the veracity of a recent US mobile phone sales survey that claimed that Android mobiles were now outselling iPhones in the US.

iPhone
NPD Survey: 28 per cent of console gamers are girls

Study: 28% of console gamers are female

By Adam Hartley published

A new, definitive games industry study claims that over a quarter of all console gamers are girls.

Consoles & PC
Nintendo responsible for well over half of US games hardware and software sales in April

Nintendo is behind 56 per cent of US game sales

By Adam Hartley published

The latest NPD sales data is in for US game hardware and software sales throughout the month of April 2009, with the recently launched Nintendo DSi ruling the retail roost.

Nintendo
Latest NPD figures show slight downturn in US games sales in March, with disappointing sales of PS3's Killzone 2 in particular

US Sales of PS3's Killzone 2 disappoint

By Adam Hartley published

The latest NPD sales data is in, with games media and analysts picking apart the stats, which show that overall US game industry sales declined 17 per cent in March.

PS3
PS3 is 'hemorrhaging at retail' claims Microsoft Xbox boss

Microsoft says PS3 "haemorrhaging at retail"

By Adam Hartley published

Following the announcement of the latest US retail figures

PS3