Nintendo has sold more than 84 million Nintendo DS consoles worldwide, making the touchscreen, portable games console more popular than its iconic Game Boy handheld. More than 81 million Game Boys were sold globally in its heyday. The gadget, which featured a small black-and-white screen, is best remembered for launching games such as Tetris and Pokemon. The Nintendo DS has been credited with bringing a new audience to gaming, and has proved especially popular with women and younsters. Nintendo announced that more than 454 million games have been sold for the Nintendo DS, and that Nintendogs, a game in which players look after a virtual canine, had sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.
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It was once mandatory that game developers check with Sony on there games content in Europe. Now, when speaking at the Casual Connect conference in Kiev, SCEE’s George Bain confirmed that PS2 would now be “effectively an open platform” in Europe. This is thought to be an attempt to encourage regional developers in countries such as India and Russia to make “low-development cost titles and release them in their market”. ( www.gamercenteronline.net )
Pediatric patients at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children (RMHC) in Denver today received new Xbox 360(TM) kiosks to play with, thanks to a collaboration between Microsoft Corp. and the Companions in Courage Foundation. RMHC is the only Colorado children's hospital to receive the custom-built game units from the program.The Companions in Courage Foundation, started by hockey great Pat LaFontaine, established the Lion's Den Kiosk program with Microsoft Corp. Microsoft delivers the mobile game units to select children's hospitals to provide interactive, fun entertainment as a respite for children battling life-threatening illness.
You’ve probably encountered them, whether in shops, on trains, or perhaps burgling your kitchen. Other people are everywhere, like some sort of uncontrolled disease. Recognisable by their not being you, with their different faces and opinions, they’re exactly the sort of thing that‘s wrong with society. History books show there has never been a war that wasn’t caused or exacerbated by the involvement of other people, and while anecdotal, I’ve yet to get into an argument which didn’t involve at least one other person. And they’re ruining my videogames.
Gamesradar : It's almost inevitable that any long-running TV series will contain at least one "videogame episode." Sometimes the attempt at pop culture awareness is done well, but it’s generally an attempt by clueless writers to appear hip and socially relevant by tackling the supposed implications of violent games. The conversation, as I imagine it, goes something like this ... ( www.gamesradar.com )
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