Nintendo has joined hands with free-hotspot.com and the new deal will let the gaming company offer free Wi-Fi to its subscribers in Europe. Under the new arrangement, 3DS owners will be able to make use of over 5,000 Wi-Fi hotspot scattered around Europe. If you own a Nintendo 3DS, then you would be able to [...]

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Nintendo recently disclosed that it is looking to announce losses for its current financial year. However, it does not mean that the company is lagging on the product front. The Japanese company is all set to release Wii U this year and is hoping that this state of the art console would be able to [...]

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Microsoft has got a big winner in Xbox 360. The popular gaming console commanded 40 percent market share in 2011. According to AllThingsD, gamers spent about $6.7 billion on buying Xbox hardware and games in 2011. The major share went towards the purchase of games at $4.6 billion. Remaining $2.1 billion was spent on purchasing [...]

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PlayStation Vita was launched with much fanfare in Japan and the console’s initial sales figures matched the euphoria. But, now it has been reported that the console is facing steep decline in its sales volume in the second week of its launch. It looks like PlayStation Vita is destined to meet the fate of Nintendo [...]

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2011 has been a bumper year for technology; Apple continued their domination of the tablet and smartphone markets; Sony pushed 3D technology with their Playstation 3; Microsoft continued their controller-free gaming revolution with Kinect; Nintendo showed us a glimpse of the future with glasses-free 3D and Android became the world’s most popular smartphone platform. But, [...]

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Major gaming hardware companies recently released their sales stats and most of them posted record breaking sales figures. However, the exuberance in gaming console market does not extend to the software market, which is expected to face downward trend. According to the industry experts, 2011 is likely to be the consecutive third year for the [...]

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Gaming consoles are going strong and top players have just posted some really impressive stats. Microsoft reported sales figures for Xbox 360 and Kinect motion control device. Thanks to Black Friday sales, the company sold over 960,000 consoles in the US during Black Friday week. It also sold 750,000 units of Kinect device. Xbox 360 [...]

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More rumours are surfacing about the follow-up to Microsoft’s Xbox 360, with industry publication Develop predicting that the new console will be unveiled next year and will gone on sale Christmas 2013, and they’ve even gone as far as suggesting its code name is Xbox Next. Microsoft Xbox 360 is 5-years-old, and turns 6 in [...]

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