Mario Party 8 returns to number one position

Nintendo continues to dominate the charts in Japan, with 25 of the top 30 best-selling games in the region for the DS or Wii formats.

The top ten best-selling games for the week ended August 19 follow:

1. Mario Party 8 (Wii)

2. SD Gundam: G Generation Cross Drive (DS)

3. Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber (DS)

4. Wii Sports (Wii)

5. Wii Play (Wii)

6. My Housekeeping Diary (DS)

7. J-League Winning Eleven 2007: Club Championship (PS2)

8. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)

9. New Super Mario Bros. (DS)

10. Hot Shots Golf 5 (PS3)

Microsoft replace official wheel following overheating

Microsoft is retrofitting its official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel after reports the peripheral overheats and releases smoke.

The company said a component in the wheel chassis overheats when the AC/DC power adaptor is used to power the wheel.

"There have been no reported incidences of fire, personal injury or property damage resulting from the component failure in the wheel," said the company in a statement.

Microsoft advices that owners of the peripheral in the US should contact the company for a retrofit and stop using the AC/DC adaptor, although it's safe to use the wheel using battery power.

The company has notified the the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Microsoft Europe was not available at the time of writing to advise on any retrofitting for European consumers.

Sony - no plans to cut the PlayStation 3 price

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has no plans to cut the price of PlayStation 3 according to president David Reeves, but the company will introduce new bundles with different games to help drive sales.

"What we're going to allow, and it doesn't need an announcement, is simply that we'll probably put out more hard bundles than the Starter Pack," Reeves told GamesIndustry.biz in an interview published today.

"We're not making any pricing announcements at Games Convention at all. There's none. And we don't have any plans in that regard. We're really happy with the way that things are going for the PAL business. We really are. It's on track."

Reeves also said that Sony chose not to announce new PS3 games during its press conference in Leipzig last night because it wants to make sure people are "focused on five or six games".

"We're not going to try and overload - I'm not trying to escape the question, I'm just saying we're not going to overload the consumer with too many new ones."

"It's important to get a window so that someone's played a game and they're ready for the next one, because they don't have huge wallets and they can't go out and buy five games at 59 Euros all the time. So we're trying to do pillar titles every month.