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Nintendo Wii Leader In Hardware Sales For July

U.S. video game sales increased 28 percent in July from a year ago, with continued solid demand for Nintendo's Wii console, research firm NPD said.Sales of video game hardware, software and accessories reached $1.19 billion in July, with software sales increasing 41 percent and hardware sales growing 17 percent.

Wii Music Is Shown At E3

Nintendo is finally jumping into the music with a Rock Band and Guitar Hero competitor called Wii M

Wii Sales Boost Nintendo Profits

Strong holiday sales of Wii and Nintendo DS portable game device allowed Japan's Nintendo to more than double its quarterly operating profit and to raise its outlook ahead of market expectations.

Call Her Queen Wii

Apparently the Queen of England has become a fan of Nintendo's Wii console. The British tabloid The People reported that the 81-year-old became interested in the Wii console after seeing her 25-year-old grandson Prince William play a game.

Wii Sales Strong, Supplies Short

Nintendo holiday sales of the Wii game console are off to a "fantastic start" according to a top executive with the company.

U.S. Video Game Sales Hit $1.1 Billion

Market research firm NPD is reporting that U.S. sales of video game hardware and software increased 73 percent in October. Total sales reached $1.1 billion, compared with $643 million a year earlier. The Nintendo Wii console moved back into the top spot as the best selling console. Nintendo sold 519,000 Wiis, Microsoft sold 366,000 Xbox 360 consoles and Sony sold 121,000 of its PlayStation 3 consoles.

Nintendo Sacks Anonymous Blogger

You can't help, from a reasonable Internet distance, but like her; she's sexy, irreverent, and smart, everything you should like and fear in a gal. But she goofed, at least a little, and unfair or not, Nintendo is the latest corporate entity to can an employee for blogging.

Opera Community Site Reaches Everywhere

From the desktop to the mobile, even to the Nintendo Wii, Opera Software's free networking site offers its users several points of access.

Lycos Top Searches

Lycos, a community destination for broadband entertainment has released The Lycos 50, the most popular search results for the week ending February 24, 2007. “American Idol” contestant Antonella Barba had a surge in Web users searching for her. Not because of an outstanding performance on the show but because news surfaced that there were nude pictures of her on the Internet. In a frenzy users flocked online to see for themselves, resulting in a 47,000 percent jump in interest just for being naked.

Nintendo Launches Wii News Channel

Besides television, radio, Internet and newspapers where do you get your news? Would you consider using a game console to receive your news? That's what Nintendo and the Associated Press are hoping.