Nintendo has named a 65-year-old human resources executive as president to lead the company’s long- awaited push into smartphone gaming and development of its new console.

America’s Universal Studios will develop a £1.1bn (€1.6bn) theme park – modelled after those in Florida, California and Japan – in Dubai, a government firm has announced.

Homer, Bart and the rest of the TV Simpson family are to be turned into US theme park rides.