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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.