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Following LulzSec's ongoing campaign against the games industry, a study by the NDP Group has revealed that game sales in the U.S. have hit their lowest point in five years, but interestingly the recent slew of cyber attacks has not been listed as a key reason for the sales lull.

With the games industry still licking its wounds after Sony's PlayStation Network nightmare and hacker collective LulzSec hot on it heals, a study by the NDP Group has reported that physical game sales in the U.S. have hit their lowest point in five years.

Having just been confirmed as the U.S.'s most popular console for the eleventh month in a row, analysts have already begun to speculate whether Nintendo's forthcoming Wii U console will be able knock Microsoft's Xbox 360 from its thrown upon release next year.

Nokia has won its long-running patent dispute with iPhone creator Apple, after the company agreed to a one-off lump-sum and continuing royalty payments to the Finnish smartphone maker.

Since Sony's PlayStation Network outage, numerous games companies have fallen victim to successful cyber attacks, most recently Nintendo and Epic Games have joined the growing cyber-victims club, leading to fresh speculation about which company will be targeted next.

According to a report from Nomura, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will overtake Nokia to become the world's largest smartphone maker this financial quarter.

Following last week's revelation about a fresh cyber attack on veteran U.K. games developer Codemasters, both Nintendo and Epic Games representatives have posted statements on their company websites warning account holders about password protection.

Veteran U.K. based games developer Codemasters has confirmed that its network was hacked earlier this month.

O2 has today, for the second time in as many months, confirmed that its network is down in certain areas of East London and Essex.

With this year's E3 finished, Nintendo's company President Satoru Iwata has expressed his bewilderment at the negative response the newly unveiled Wii U has recieved.

O2 has attacked Ofcom's new 4G coverage auction policy claiming that it is illegal under current EU law.

In an interview with GameSpot during this year's E3 expo, Microsoft's Games Studios head Phil Spencer confirmed the company's intention to have all first-party developed games include Kinect functionality.

The hacker group LulzSec has reportedly sent an email to the U.K.'s NHS warning the healthcare service that its computer networks are vulnerable to cyber attacks.

The level of threat cyber crime poses the world is a growing topic of debate, with hacks on titan companies like Google, Sony and now Citibank adding gas to the flame, the IBTimes takes a look at some of the biggest hacks carried out this year.

Zaavi has become the first retailer to attempt to guess the new Nintendo Wii U console's price and release date, selling it for pre-order at £399.85 with a launch date of 20 July, 2012.

Just after U.K. Defence Secretary Liam Fox's warnings about the growing cyber threat facing the country, a new hack on Citibank has been confirmed.

With LulzSec having just issued a statement promising to continue its ongoing cyber-war against tech giant Sony, many analysts have begun to speculate just how damaging the groups continued assault could be on Sony's forthcoming PlayStation Vita console.

With Nintendo having only just revealed its new Wii U console, both Sony and Apple have answered back, each revealing future projects and plans similar to those of Nintendo's.

With Sony only just having gotten its PSN service fully functioning today, analysts and consumers alike have voiced concern over whether the services are truly secure, citing the ongoing barrage of security breaches inflicted by the hacker group LulzSec as proof that they are not.

As the hacker group LulzSec continues to batter at Sony's cyber-gates, the company today announced the full restoration of its PlayStation Network.

Having just triumphantly revealed its new Project Cafe Wii U console at this year's E3 expo Nintendo share prices have unexpectedly fallen in value.

With Nintendo having just unveiled its latest console the Wii U, the company has posted a video showing a selection games consumers can expect to see in its launch line-up later next year.

With Nintendo only just having revealed its new Wii U console, despite a lack of firm information regarding the new console's technical spec, analysts and consumers are already questioning whether Nintendo has repeated its past mistakes with the Wii.

Last night at this year's E3 fans finally got a glimpse of Nintendo's new Project Cafe console, which as it turns out is actually called the Wii U.

With Sony having just revealed its new handheld PlayStation Vita console, analysts and consumers alike have begun speculating about whether the Vita will be able to reverse the handheld console market's ailing fortunes.

LulzSec's recent claim of a new successful hack on Sony's networks has come just after Sony's public apology to fans at this year's E3 expo, leading to fresh speculation about whether the company will be able to recover from its recent PSN hacking nightmare.

With Microsoft's E3 press conference out of the way, the IBTimes wraps up the key products and services it chose to reveal and demo at this year's expo.

Last night as a part of its contribution to this year's E3 expo, not only did Sony announce the renaming of its portable NGP console, it also released the handheld's tech specs.

After yesterday hacking Nintendo "just for LulzDec", the hacker group has today released a fresh statement claiming to have successfully breached Sony's online security again.