Sonic Colours News

Despite weak game sales, publisher rides Sonic Color's 2.18 million units to 3.1 percent revenue climb; Vanquish sells 830,000, Shogun 2 moves 600,000.

Heavy Rain proves a critical favourite, picking up three British Academy awards; Mass Effect 2 wins the Best Game prize; Peter Molyneux awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.

Vanquish sells 820,000 and Sonic Colors moves 1.85 million as publisher poised to post back-to-back full years in the black.

New release slate led by Ubisoft's stealth action game, EA's racer reboot, NBA Jam; other notable launches include Harry Potter 7: Part 1, EA Sports Active 2.0, Apache: Air Assault.

A big week in releases as Activision sets loose the next instalment in its mega Call of Duty franchise with the Treyarch-developed Black Ops.

Nintendo dates upcoming Wii and DS titles as pink puffball's latest lands October 17, Donkey Kong Returns November 17, Bond sneaks out November 16, and Wii Party debuts October 3.

Sega's iconic hedgehog returns later this year in new action adventure game introducing the flying alien race of power-up granting Wisps.