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Here’s some great news for those of you in Europe interested in playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Sin and Punishment: Star Successor . Nintendo announced that Galaxy will be available in Europe on June 11, not long after America’s May 23 date.

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Mario, Metroid, Sin and Punishment, more dated in Europe

American DS owners have been waiting patiently for Dragon Quest IX , as the game racks up crazy sales in Japan and weekly DLC is released from Square Enix.

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Nintendo publishing Dragon Quest IX in North America

According to Square Enix’s financial report covering the first nine months (ending this past December) of its fiscal year, the company is going to finish its annual business cycle with plenty of glistening gil. Overall, the company’s profits are up 48 percent from the same period last year, and it forecasts a profit of ¥10 billion (which is far less shocking when converted to $112 million) for the fiscal year ending in March 2010. The company’s games division saw limit breaker sales and profits during the period due to Dragon Quest IX, Final Fantasy XIII , Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Batman: Arkham Asylum — which it obtained as part of the Eidos buyout .

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2009 looked fairly dire for the Japanese games industry. Now that we’re on the other side of the year, we can assess the damage

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Japanese games market shrank in 2009

According to Square Enix, Dragon Quest IX has broken a shipment record in Japan, but we can’t help but be underwhelmed by the figure (and not just because Square was hoping for 5 million ). Unfortunately, Google Translate initially told us that the game had moved 415 million copies, rather than the 4.15 million it actually shipped. Sure, we guess 4.15 million is okay, but with 415 million, the jokes would have written themselves.

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Dragon Quest IX breaks shipment record in Japan

As a major player in global entertainment, videogames were sure to pop up in Google’s annual Zeitgeist, an analysis of the billions of queries that web users made this year.

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The Games of Google’s Zeitgeist

Square Enix recently chose to attack with its annual earnings report, and among the 12-page PDF file ’s barrage of numbers, things look pretty good for the company. Net sales for the six months ending September 30, 2009 were up 33 percent over the same period last year to 91 billion yen ($1 billion), while operating income was also up by 39 percent to 13 billion yen ($144.5 million) over the same period last year.

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Square Enix summons Earnings Report; Final Fantasy XIII Sales Projections evade attacks

Despite the handicap of not being for sale in most of the world, Dragon Quest IX for the DS sold more copies than any other game in the world between July and September of this year, according to a Top Global Markets report .

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Dragon Quest IX is Q3’s top-selling game

TOKYO — What secret gaming treasures await inside the stores of Akihabara?

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