Another month, another four weeks of frontrunner performance for Japanese gaming giant Nintendo in the U.S. market. According to NPD data for July, Nintendo has further solidified its hardware dominance with monthly sales of 608,400 units of its twin-screened DS handheld, and 555,000 units of its demographic-busting Wii home console.

And the solid summer numbers are not just limited to Nintendo, with research specialist NPD offering that the entire videogame industry has registered a sizeable jump of 28 percent throughout July to push the market through to $1.19 billion USD.

While July is generally seen as a slow month for videogame sales, the monthly figures reveal that….

Not content with just releasing a dedicated Guinness Book of Records Gamers Edition, the GWR team have teamed up with Telltale Games (that’s right, the talented folks behind Lego Star Wars and Lego Batman) to produce a Nintendo Wii and DS game based on the famous book. The game is chock full of records that you can study and then try to beat yourself and hopefully stand a chance of getting your name in the real Guinness World Records book. We don’t quite understand how Guinness World Records Wii will work yet but….

Madden NFL 2009, the latest version of the No. 1-selling video football game, went on sale. Anxious gamers lined up Monday night at some Brevard County stores so they would get the game when it became available at midnight.

Some local stores reported relatively slow sales early in the day, but expected more business Tuesday night. Others reported brisk sales right from the start.

GameStop at 1080 N. Wickham Road in Mebourne had a special opening for a half-hour at midnight so fans of the Madden series, now in its 20th year, could lay claim to the latest installment as soon as possible…..

NPD has released its analysis of June's retail activity, and the industry's sales numbers continue to skyrocket with $1.69 billion in game sales, $615 million spent on consoles, and $202 million from accessories. "The video games industry continues to perform in the face of an ever-increasingly difficult economic environment as many turn to more in-home entertainment," said Anita Frazier, industry analyst for NPD. "Even if growth slows over the back half of 2008, the industry is poised to achieve record-breaking revenues of over $22B for the year."