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The purchase of a minority shareholding in Japanese media giant Bandai by Nintendo in late September has come under scrutiny once again, as an interview in a Japanese magazine reveals in-fighting on the Bandai board over the sale.

Japanese publisher Capcom has announced a profit for the first half of fiscal 2003, turning around a loss last year, and has given unit software sales guidance for each of the hardware platforms in the current year.

Computing giant IBM is now involved in chip design for all three next-generation consoles, announcing late last week that it will be providing processor technology for Nintendo's next games system.

Sales of Nintendo's GameCube rose by over 145 per cent in Japan last week as the highly anticipated Mario Kart: Double Dash went straight in at number one in its first week on sale.

Japanese publisher Konami has reported a large rise in its profits for the first half of the 2003 fiscal year, with the boost attributed largely to the success of its video games and trading card games in the USA and Europe.

British developer starts a beautiful friendship with Californian publisher

Leading UK videogame retail chain GAME Group has been awarded the Customer Focus Award at the National Business Awards ceremony in London, and was highly commended for the Business of the Year award.

Medal of Honor GBA team made redundant as sequel fails to materialise

Japanese publisher Sega has seen a massive boost in its first half profits thanks to better than expected performance of its arcade division, while the loss-making console games division is rapidly approaching break-even.

Japanese giant Nintendo has announced a loss for the first half of 2003, as expected, and has reiterated its plan to launch an innovative new game product next year - with an official unveiling expected at E3.

An innovative development "incubation" company which was founded by some of the pioneers of the Xbox project with a view to acting as a middleman between publishers and developers has been forced to close due to lack of funding.

Further information regarding Nintendo's latest console, the iQue, has emerged from China, including details of the software which will ship with the system and a revised price point.

Microsoft has denied that a re-release of Halo with added Xbox Live support is on the way, quashing speculation fuelled by what has transpired to be a budget release of the hit game, scheduled to arrive in the next few weeks.

Nokia's aspirations in the games industry have been hit by a major setback this week, as pirates worked out how to break the protection on N-Gage game cards, leading to the posting of the full range of software to the Internet.