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In the run up to its 10 billionth App Store download, Apple has revealed charts listing the all-time most-downloaded software from its iOS service.

In the US, games comprise nine of the top ten paid apps, with this dropping to 8/10 in the UK. The recently contentious Doodle Jump is the most downloaded paid app in the US, though it is overtaken by Angry Birds in the UK store.

Also placing highly in both charts are Tap Tap Revenge 3, Pocket God, Flight Control, Bejewelled Blitz and Traffic Rush.

Gamers are far less prevalent in the free iPhone apps chart, with Paper Toss the only appearance in the top ten.

Paid iPad apps include four games in the top ten, and just one in the free chart.

Figures for most of these games are undisclosed, but Angry Birds is known to have sold 12 million copies across both formats.

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In the run up to its 10 billionth App Store download, Apple has revealed charts listing the all-time most-downloaded software from its iOS service.

In the US, games comprise nine of the top ten paid apps, with this dropping to 8/10 in the UK. The recently contentious Doodle Jump is the most downloaded paid app in the US, though it is overtaken by Angry Birds in the UK store.

Also placing highly in both charts are Tap Tap Revenge 3, Pocket God, Flight Control, Bejewelled Blitz and Traffic Rush.

Gamers are far less prevalent in the free iPhone apps chart, with Paper Toss the only appearance in the top ten.

Paid iPad apps include four games in the top ten, and just one in the free chart.

Figures for most of these games are undisclosed, but Angry Birds is known to have sold 12 million copies across both formats.

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Nintendo has cast a light on its sales figures in the Spanish and Portuguese market, revealing a significant market share in those territories.

In a Iberian press conference (as reported by GoNintendo), the firm revealed hardware sales of 1.3 million and software sales of 6.39 million over 2010. Respectively, this comprises 55.7 and 44.7 per cent of the Spanish and Portuguese market.

In additional, the DS's sales of 5.3 million units make it the best-selling console in Spanish history, and taking a 67.9 per cent share of the market.

However, overall Nintendo saw a 6 per cent decline in sales during 2010.

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Apple has posted record revenues, sales and profits in its latest quarterly financial report, seeing earnings rise by 78 per cent in year on year figures.

The report was issued last night and shows figures for the quarter ending on Christmas day 2010, which is Apple's first financial quarter 2011. Quarterly revenue stood at $26.74 billion (£16.7bn) and quarterly profit at $6 billion (£3.75bn), both record figures for the company. During that period last year, Apple posted revenues of $15.68 billion (£9.8bn) and profit of $3.38 billion (£2.1bn).

The company also released specific sales figures for its major lines, shifting 4.13 million Macs during the period, 23 per cent more than the same quarter in 2010. Apple also sold 16.24 million iPhones during the three months leading up to Christmas 2010, an 86 per cent growth year on year.

19.45 million iPods were bought at retail during the quarter - a seven percent unit decline from one year ago. The company's newest product, the iPad, sold 7.33 million units during the quarter.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who announced Monday that he'll be leaving the company in the hands of experienced COO Tim Cook whilst he takes a period of medical leave, made a statement to accompany the figures.

"We had a phenomenal holiday quarter with record Mac, iPhone and iPad sales," said Jobs. "We are firing on all cylinders and we've got some exciting things in the pipeline for this year including iPhone 4 on Verizon which customers can't wait to get their hands on."

"We couldn't be happier with the performance of our business, generating $9.8 billion in cash flow from operations during the December quarter," said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO. "Looking ahead to the second fiscal quarter of 2011, we expect revenue of about $22 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $4.90."

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Apple has posted record revenues, sales and profits in its latest quarterly financial report, seeing earnings rise by 78 per cent in year on year figures.

The report was issued last night and shows figures for the quarter ending on Christmas day 2010, which is Apple's first financial quarter 2011. Quarterly revenue stood at $26.74 billion (£16.7bn) and quarterly profit at $6 billion (£3.75bn), both record figures for the company. During that period last year, Apple posted revenues of $15.68 billion (£9.8bn) and profit of $3.38 billion (£2.1bn).

The company also released specific sales figures for its major lines, shifting 4.13 million Macs during the period, 23 per cent more than the same quarter in 2010. Apple also sold 16.24 million iPhones during the three months leading up to Christmas 2010, an 86 per cent growth year on year.

19.45 million iPods were bought at retail during the quarter - a seven percent unit decline from one year ago. The company's newest product, the iPad, sold 7.33 million units during the quarter.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who announced Monday that he'll be leaving the company in the hands of experienced COO Tim Cook whilst he takes a period of medical leave, made a statement to accompany the figures.

"We had a phenomenal holiday quarter with record Mac, iPhone and iPad sales," said Jobs. "We are firing on all cylinders and we've got some exciting things in the pipeline for this year including iPhone 4 on Verizon which customers can't wait to get their hands on."

"We couldn't be happier with the performance of our business, generating $9.8 billion in cash flow from operations during the December quarter," said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO. "Looking ahead to the second fiscal quarter of 2011, we expect revenue of about $22 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $4.90."

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Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling has warned that the key level PS3 hack which surfaced last month has created the opportunity for players to run several exploits in multiplayer bouts of Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2, which the company can do nothing to prevent until Sony fixes the larger problem.

Hacked servers running the games can be used to reset players' scores, change perks and enable debug mode special abilities such as auto aim and incredible movement speed. Bowling believes that these problems will be unfixable until Sony can address the key hack.

"Games rely on the security of the encryption on the platforms they're played on," Bowling posted on the Infinity Ward forums. "Therefore, updates to the game through patches will not resolve this problem completely, unless the security exploit itself is resolved on the platform."

His advice to players was to steer away from public matches where they might encounter hacked servers, and to report any oddities to Sony customer support. A reputation for hosting hacked matches could prove disastrous to the hugely successful series, as players migrate to more secure platforms.

Addressing the problem in future CoD games will not be a problem, Bowling told readers, but the existing titles simply cannot be fixed via patching.

The PS3's security was laid wide open at the end of last year as hacking group Fail0verflow, building on the work of George Hotz, or Geohot, discovered that Sony had made an elemental error in its otherwise rigorous PS3 security and released details of the hack to the public.

The group has since been issued a restraining order by Sony, in a case which is currently under review due to jurisdictional complications.

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Nintendo's released the trailer it showed during its 3DS conferences earlier today that showcased gameplay footage of many of the system's launch window titles.


Completely new levels of Starfox, Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Paper Mario 3DS can be seen, and much more. Be ready with that pause button to check them out it detail.

Nintendo today confirmed the 3DS will be out in UK on March 25, but kept hush on an official price.



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Nintendo has confirmed reports that all 3DS games will be region-locked.

When asked to explain the decision at today's 3DS event in Amsterdam, Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton told Eurogamer it was all down to varying regional content.

"There are a number of different factors that come into it," he explained. "Part of it is, when you're looking at the software and the different areas, what additional features are included that may not necessarily be available in other territories.

"For example, we might have one territory where there's downloadable content that's not necessarily either suitable or we don't have the means to do it in another territory. So therefore it may not be compatible.

"The other thing is, if we look at it at on a regional basis, we have to be very conscious of – the customer may not really care about this, but different territories have different ratings. We're very conscious of making sure we tow the line as far as government goes there. In Europe we've got PEGI. In Australia there's a different rating. America's got a different rating. Japan's a different rating.

Yarnton did offer a glimmer of hope that the situation might change in the future.

"DVDs are also region locked. It's nothing new. I know people would love to sample the box of chocolates from everywhere, but at this stage... As time goes on, who knows what's going to happen."

Although Nintendo home consoles have long since featured region locks, the 3DS is its first handheld to limit where users can purchase their games.

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The Nintendo 3DS is going to set you back somewhere in the region of £230 when it goes on sale in March. Some of you reckon that's rather steep. Nintendo? Well, the platform holder believes you're actually getting a great deal.

Nintendo UK chief David Yarnton told Eurogamer that the price tag reflects the system's unique entertainment offering.

"It's still really good value," he insisted. "The fact it's a 3D entertainment device – you can't get anything that's 3D at that sort of price without having to wear glasses as well. Get that one in."

Yarnton went on to explain that he believes the price of the new handheld stands up favourably against the iPhone and other smartphone devices.

"If we go back a few years, when we first launched the DS in 2004, 2005, people looked at us and said, wow, this is unusual, it's got a touch screen. Who's going to buy this at whatever price it was at the time?

"It was the same with Wii. People looked at that and said it's all in a different direction. Now with 3D we've been disruptive again and innovative.

"To me, people will look at [the 3DS] and say this offers something I can't get anywhere else. It's the same with all the other products we had. It was an experience they could have with our products that they wouldn't get anywhere else.

"As much as there's a plethora of devices out there for all sorts of things, you can't get a 3D gaming experience on anything else apart from the 3DS," he continued, before adding that Nintendo's gaming credentials also helped set the machine apart from smartphone competition.

"It's not just that. It's the other parts of it, too. If you look over time, we've never professed to be anything else apart from a gaming company. That's what our expertise is: developing, we think, really good games and consoles for them to be played on."

Elsewhere in the interview, Yarnton explained why Nintendo had chosen to let retailers set the price rather than announcing a universal RRP.

"It's just that we don't set the retail price. Someone can sell our products for whatever they want to. We don't control that," he said.

"But we've had a look online. We've been talking to retailers and they've been told their cost prices now. They've established price and we've been told, looking online, that it's anywhere from £220 to £229."

The 3DS is due to launch in Europe on 25th March.

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