Nintendo has gone from worst to first in consecutive console releases, with Sony doing exactly the opposite this generation. A closer look at collective data released by the NPD Group, the official tracker of U.S. video game sales, reveals the stark reversal of roles. Based on the first 26 months of...

If the future of movie rentals involved trekking long distances to brick and mortar stores to overpay for a movie, Blockbuster would be all set. Unfortunately for Blockbuster, the future of the business lies online. Even worse, all of their competitors realized this before them. And so we have a com...

I’ve talked about the regrettable 3-D TV trend at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in a separate post. But I spotted some other trends among the 2,700 exhibitors at the show as well. Gesture control and multi-touch screens: Part and parcel of good industrial hardw...

2008 has been a big year for the games market. Game sales soared to new heights this year and resisted the onset of the recession. Here’s a recap of our biggest game-market stories this year (including some links for related stories) for those of you who may have missed them: 1. T he Nintendo ...

Rumblings the past few days had Sony getting ready to unveil its first entry into the currently hot netbook category of computers. Netbooks are small, low-weight and low-cost laptops that, while not as powerful as their bigger counterparts, can handle things like surfing the web just fine. The leake...

With the new year approaching, there’s no time like the present to look ahead to what is shaping up to be another record-breaking year in the videogame business. While many big games have yet to be officially confirmed or even announced, especially from Nintendo’s tight-lipped camp, there are en...

The great grudge match of video games in 2006 was Microsoft’s Gears of War versus Sony’s Resistance: Fall of Man. Now the sequels to those console games are battling for the hearts of gamers. The games industry is one of the few that’s still growing in the down economy, so the batt...

Sony has started setting the stage for the launch of its Home virtual world. The company has been running beta tests with thousands of users for weeks now, and the formal launch is still expected to be this fall on the PlayStation Network. About 18 months in the making, Home is Sony’s “H...

As the E3 video game industry media show comes to a close today, the game industry got some very good news. In spite of the recession, video game sales are still roaring. June sales of video game hardware, software and accessories grew 53 percent to $1.69 billion, according to market researcher NPD ...

Microsoft came through tonight with a press release announcing its $50 price cut for the Xbox 360 Pro (with a 20 gigabyte hard drive) model, which drops from $349 to $299 in the U.S. and Canada. It is pretty much on par with what everybody predicted, including us. But for those of you who still want...