The Nintendo Wii U has ridden through its first holiday. How did the follow up to the record breaking Nintendo Wii perform? Sales are "steady" according to Nintendo's president, but they're not what the company was hoping for according to one analyst.

Sony said at the end of December that it would stop shipping PlayStation 2 consoles to Japan, but now the company has confirmed that production has stopped worldwide. After nearly thirteen years, the PlayStation 2 is dead.

It's a whole new year for Jetsetter. In this debut for 2013, we take a look at some sweet Korean Game Boy Advance games that take Final Fantasy in a whole new direction before getting excoriated by a Japanese Winnie the Pooh game. Finally: Eidos' co-founder gets all the accolades.

Image used with permission by copyright holder BioShock Infinite, after two years of hype, excitement, delays, and cancellations, is just two months away from release. 2K Games is wasting no opportunity to transform Irrational Games’ series from a moderate success and critical darling into one of the best-selling franchises in the contemporary gaming landscape. To […]

Namco is one of the first names in arcade video games, responsible for foundational classics like Pac-man, Space Invaders, Soul Calibur and Point Blank. Arcades are nearly extinct in 2013, but the company is planning a new chain of restaurants to bring them back.

Any Xbox Live users that moved between countries and wanted to move their Xbox Live accounts abroad with them use to be out of luck. Now Microsoft is testing a simple new way to aid expatriates keep gaming.

Microsoft and developer Gas Powered Games announced on Thursday that Age of Empires Online has exited the development phase and entered the support phase. Translation: No more new content and no more bug fixes for the free-to-play strategy game.

Two and a half years after Microsoft first announced Crimson Dragon, a spiritual follow up to the classic Sega series Panzer Dragoon, the game still isn't out. A demo appeared on XBLA this week, but was taken down almost immediately by the the company.

David Braben has been trying to make a sequel to his open world space sim Elite since 1998. Now thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, his studio will begin work on Elite: Dangerous.

Ouya won't be the only Google Android based video game console vying for people's attention in 2013. Smart TV game company PlayJam has announced its own cheaper alternative, the GameStick.

Microsoft came out on top of a bidding war between itself, Apple, and Google for control of home automation technology company R2 Studios. The purchase says a great deal about the future of the Xbox.

Alan Wake wasn't the hit that Microsoft thought it would be when the game came out in 2010, but from the sound of things, developer Remedy Entertainment is going to get a shot at making Alan Wake 2.

The Nintendo Wii U is entering its first full year as a competitor in the video game industry and it needs exclusive games to capture people's attention. Capcom at least is planning to support it with new exclusives rather than ports of old games.

The Nintendo 3DS has been impressively secure since its release in 2011, protected from the piracy that plagued the Nintendo DS. Members of the Nintendo homebrew community now claim they've cracked the system, paving the way for bootleggers.

Skeptics thought Torchlight 2 might suffer thanks to its proximity to Diablo 3, but the Runic Games dungeon crawler has done quite well, selling 1 million copies in its first three months.

Electronic Arts' next round of server closures includes recent entries in the FIFA Soccer and Madden NFL series as well as the best-selling PC game of all time, The Sims 2.

Square-Enix announced a Final Fantasy XI: Seekers of Andoulin release date on the day after Christmas, promising an English edition of the expansion for this spring.

The Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn beta will begin in February as Square-Enix embarks on a four phase testing process to try and avoid a similarly catastrophic launch as when the original MMO was released in 2010.

Don't think free-to-play gaming is huge? Take a look at World of Tanks. The free MMO about tanks shooting each other has racked up 45 million players, close to four times the peak membership of World of Warcraft.

Bethesda finally published a hit outside The Elder Scrolls series this year when it released Dishonored. Now people are wondering what happened to its other promising original, Prey 2. Developer Human Head says to ask the publisher for news.

The new Black Isle Studios ended three months of radio silence with a call for crowd-funding on its website. The new studio is looking to make a post-apocalyptic RPG called Project V13 but it doesn't reveal who will actually be making it.

Nintendo 3DS role-playing game fans rejoice: More than fifteen years after the game's original release on Sega Saturn, Atlus is bringing Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers to the United States.

Finland's Rovio isn't a one trick pony. Angry Birds was successful, but so were Angry Birds: Star Wars and Bad Piggies! Spin-off success is one thing, but Rovio does see its future in developing new intellectual properties.

Nintendo TVii hits the Wii U on Thursday, unifying some of the console's entertainment apps and live television into a single service. Given the shaky performance of the Wii U's operating system and apps so far, though, is Nintendo's system seller ready?

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance won't be out until February but Kojima Productions is already discussing the possibility of collaborating with Platinum Games on a sequel. Meanwhile, the studio shoots down the possibility of Rising for Nintendo Wii U.

Let it never be said that the distribution of downloadable content can't cause wacky hijinks. The botched release of the Crimson Map Pack DLC for Halo 4 led Microsoft to give away paid content for free and then to accidentally ban players for using it.

Gamer Fit Nation's CEO is organizing an event for Friday asking gamers to not play online shooters for 24 hours to show support for those affected by the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

thatgamecompany's Journey and Al Lowe's Leisure Suit Larry don't outwardly share much. One's about a loser trying to get lucky and the other's about a spiritual journey through a ruined civilization. They do share one thing: Composer Austin Wintory.

Electronic Arts continues to consolidate and rebrand its various digital businesses in its effort to create a future proof video game company. Its plans in free-to-play gaming are well intentioned but they may not lead to financial or creative growth.

Support for Sony's PlayStation Vita is dwindling as the handheld is still struggling to connect with gamers. Sony is working to beef up the PS Vita's game selection by signing indie developers like FuturLab to create new content.

Rebellion's Sniper Elite demonstrates just how fragile video games in the digital age can be as the multiplayer game's servers were abruptly taken offline after sever years, effectively killing the game.

PopCap Games has been the king of casual video games for the better part of a decade, but the studio is moving beyond Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies according to a new job listing. PopCap is getting into the shooter business.

It's a bittersweet week in Jetsetter as we say goodbye to one of the UK's most prolific console game developers but celebrate new shooters from New Zealand and Japan's best and brightest.

Players picking up the new downloadable content for Assassin's Creed III should exercise caution, as Ubisoft has confirmed that a glitch in the process is causing players' save files to be erased.