Nintendo didn't wow with new Mario games, but the announcement of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D provides an interesting glimpse into the future of the Nintendo 3DS handheld.
Bracing itself for the impending new console market, GameStop will close 50 more stores in addition to the 200 it originally planned to shut down in 2013.
The Last Guardian director Fumito Ueda gave a brief update on his long in the works title, promising that he is still in creative control of the PlayStation 3 game.
Rumors suggest that Gearbox Software outsourced the entire single-player campaign of Aliens: Colonial Marines to another studio, but Gearbox and Sega both say the game is Gearbox's.
Writers Rob Auten and Tom Bissell discuss creating Gears of War: Judgment with studios in North Carolina and Poland while also living in two different cities.
After nine years, Nintendo is ready to retire the Nintendo DS, but fans of the console aren't ready to let it die just yet. One homebrew game maker is working on Portal DS.
Enter the Freeman, a short fan-made film based on Valve's Half-Life games, will expand into a full miniseries this year in Half-Life: The Freeman Chronicles.
Nintendo, Nintendo Wii U owners, and Rayman fans were none too pleased when Ubisoft delayed the release of Rayman Legends, but no one is as upset as the development team.
Microsoft's Xbox 360 will turn eight-years-old this year. It's lived a good life with 76 million consoles sold, but sales of the Kinect motion control sensor have slowed.
Grasshopper Manufacture surprised the industry by selling to GungHo Online Entertainment, but the independent studio did it so it could make more games like No More Heroes.
With two games, myriad mobile apps, and over 100 million action figures sold, the Skylanders series has become Activision's latest billion dollar franchise.
NPD Group reported sales data for all game software, both digital and physical, in 2012. Digital isn't growing as quickly as physical game sales are declining.
Crytek's pragmatic and outspoken CEO Cevat Yerli says that its Warface and not Crysis 3 that foretells the fully free-to-play future of his expanding company.
This week in Jetsetter: More international delays for the PlayStation 4, an chat with Poland's BlooBer, a sequel for one of Poland's national icons, and sad Wii U sales.
“Americans will Americans and Europeans with Europeans.” Capcom won't let Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate players around the world play together on Nintendo Wii U.
In the span of a single week, Nintendo lost two exclusive games for the Wii U. Rayman Legends and Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge will both jump to the Xbox 360 and PS3.
Electronic Arts' Origin hasn't grown to a point where it can challenge Valve's Steam. Will that change now that Origin's available on Mac desk and laptops?
Many details about Bungie's long-awaited follow up to the Halo series came out in 2012, but it appears that Destiny will miss its proposed 2013 release date.
Fox International Pictures is returning to the critically panned, commercially successful Hitman movie series that started in 2007 with a new reboot called Agent 47.
Double Fine raised more than $3 million for Double Fine Adventure in 2012. OUYA, another Kickstarter star, be the only game console to host the game this year.
68,000 people have already purchased an OUYA game console. Those customers should keep $100 free for next year too: There will be a new OUYA every year..
Sony CEO Kaz Hirai promised to get the company back in the black in 2012. He did just that in the holiday quarter, but the PlayStation business is still sinking.
Intrepid Dead Space 3 players have already found a glitch in the game that allows them to work around the many real-money transactions required to buy parts for weapons.
Microsoft's original Xbox programming has been growing slowly over the past five years, and now the British indie comedy Pulp sees it stretching into movies.
Take-Two Interactive shareholders have what they've always desired: Profitability free of Grand Theft Auto. Borderlands 2 is now the company's bestselling game.
The sky may be falling on many of the biggest video game publishers in the industry, but at least one of console gaming's stalwarts is doing just fine: Namco Bandai.
The Disney-owned Lucasfim proves to be a leaky ship as more rumors about the future of Star Wars are confirmed to be true. Star Wars spinoffs are coming after 2015.
E3 2013 will debut myriad next-gen console games but it will also mark the debut of a few next-gen game designers thanks to the ESA College Game Competition.
Doom and Wofenstein developer Tom Hall returns to his roots with Secret Spaceship Club, a Kickstarter project inspired by his 1990 benchmark Commander Keen.
Square-Enix's fortunes were not what the company wanted in 2012 as weak console game sales pushed the Japanese company to a $61 million loss. How will the Final Fantasy company rebound?
Many hyped-up Kickstarter projects get delayed but Android video game console Ouya is right on schedule. The device is out in March for Kickstarter backers.
Addressing investors in the wake of Nintendo's lackluster quarterly earnings, company president Satoru Iwata promised that Wii U game development is ramping up.
