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Marvell's been teasing potent little processors for over a year now, but we've yet to see the firm's Armada appear in anything we'd actually want... but co-founder Sehat Sutardja just let slip that Marvell silicon will power a genuine game console of some sort. "Approximately 15% of the sequential increase [in quarterly sales] was due to the initial production revenue from our ARMADA application processors, primarily as a result of a major customer preparing to launch a new gaming platform," he told investors in a conference call last week ...

3D is currently the new best thing ever, replacing TV and gaming as we know it. That’s the current hype surrounding the (not very new) medium, and it seems the developer of Kid Icarus Uprising is buying into it. Technology is always improving, always evolving, and we as consumers tend to roll along with it, stepping over the tech of the past to embrace the future. DVDs replaced VHS, colour TVs replaced black and white ones. These days, advancements in technology include Blu Ray slowly overtaking DVD, and High Def Television replacing Standard Definition ...

Nintendo UK marketing boss James Honeywell has hinted to Electricpig that 3DS will be sold for under £200 in the UK. “Price, we haven’t made any kind of announcement at the moment, but for everyone who already knows, you know, the Nintendo DSi is available for around £129.99,” said Honeywell at a Nintendo event in London earlier this week. He went on to add: “The Nintendo DSi XL, with the larger screens, is around £159.99. So obviously, it’s going to fit, kind of, somewhere within that kind of architecture. ”Nintendo hasn’t confirmed ...

The future of LEVEL-5�s acclaimed series of riddles, puzzles, and mysteries will be arriving this fall on the Nintendo DS. Previously the game was expected to release on the 20th of September but the game will now be available a week earlier, treating newcomers and experienced players alike to a mesmerizing mix of time travel and puzzle-solving fun. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future places the professor and his trusted apprentice at the center of a spellbinding adventure ...

In an interview from this year's E3 that's only just been published, Nintendo 3DS platform producer Hideo Konno says that the upcoming handheld is in its "final shape." Reggie Fils-Aime, the company's leading North American voice, has more recently told us that, au contraire, the E3 consoles are not the final design, though parsing the two into one coherent message would suggest that Nintendo's just leaving itself room to make small changes if the need arises. Konno's chat with Wired also touches on the 3DS' screen size ...

Nintendo believes that all-new anti-piracy tech in 3DS will be foolproof to cracks from illegal downloaders. That's according to THQ's executive VP of global publishing Ian Curran, who told CVG that that piracy had scuppered his firm's ability to produce more games for DS Lite in the past. "What excites me even more [than 3DS games] is that there's technology built in that device to really combat piracy," said Curran. ...

Nintendo has reported a jump in UK DSi sales since the handheld�s trade price was lowered last month. �Since the adjustment in trade price has been passed on to consumers, each of the previous three weeks have seen DSi sales increase by over 40 per cent week-on-week,� Nintendo�s head of communications, Rob Saunders, told MCV. The platform holder said it is running a two week TV campaign advertising the handheld�s new retail price of �129.99, which was determined by retailers themselves. ...

Nintendo already dropped a hint that Miis could be heading to the 3DS by including some Mii-like characters in the Pilotwings demo at E3 last month, and Shigeru Miyamoto himself has now offered some further confirmation that Nintendo is at least looking at the possibility. Speaking with IGN this week, he says that it is "something that we're definitely giving consideration to," and that Nintendo wants to "continue to try to allow people to use their Miis on different Nintendo systems going forward. ...

From all the glowing praise the Nintendo 3DS has received during and post-E3 2010, you'd be forgiven for thinking this device somehow turns lead to gold, cures cancer, solved the conflict in Iraq and bridged the divide between Xbox 360 and PS3 fans. Alas, people haven't taken the time to really stop and ponder the possible threats to the 3DS' success � a success that's far from assured, if a few key questions aren't answered to the satisfaction of a demanding marketplace. ...