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.
Nintendo's Fire Emblem: Awakening adds powerful stakes to the usual swords, sorcery and strategy of role-playing games. It's fantasy about love and death.
Resident Evil: Revelations may not be the only Nintendo 3DS game to move over to home consoles. Konami says that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow—Mirror of Fate could get an HD release in the future.
Twitch, the eSports broadcasting service, is entering a new phase: The premium subscription phase. Twitch Turbo lets people watch video game broadcasts ad-free for a monthly fee, but will audiences bite?
The original Assassin's Creed was supposed to let people collaborate on taking down Templars, but the technology and story kept co-op out of the game. Now it looks like Ubisoft is re-approaching the idea of cooperative Assassin's Creed.
Minecraft creator Markus Persson was a likely investor for Psychonauts 2 in 2012 but development costs were too high. How high? The developer shed light on the necessary budget to make a sequel for Double Fine's telepathic platformer.
Critics and fans alike rejected Resident Evil 6 when it came out in 2012, causing Capcom's tent pole release to drastically miss sales expectations. Now the publisher is reconsidering the action-focused direction of the series.
This week in Digital Trends' Jetsetter, we take a look at Angry Birds studio Rovio's transformation into a publisher and one of Japan's best-known indie developers going corporate. The big story: The PlayStation 4's international release.
The PlayStation 4 is expected out this year, but Sony's studios have been working on games for the new machine for some time now. Sony Liverpool was working on a crime game for the console when it was closed, and art for that game shows what could have been.
The video game retail industry has relied on used game sales for its profits for decades, but the shift to digital distribution has quashed the resale market. 2012 court rulings in the EU, though, pushed some groups to try and get Valve to allow used game sales on Steam.
Microsoft confirmed on Friday that XNA, its simplified video game development tools used to build Xbox Live Indie Games, is being phased out over the next year. What will this mean for the Xbox Live Indie Games market?
Xseed Games will bring a plethora of promising Japanese games to the US in 2013, including Goichi Suda's Killer is Dead. While this may change, though, it looks like the publisher may finally be done with Sony's PSP handheld in North America.
Electronic Arts has successfully grown its digital games business to a $1.5 billion per year operation, but dwindling interest in Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games continues to damage the companies earning power.
Nintendo' gaming machines need help. The Nintendo 3DS is selling well, but its games are not. Meanwhile the Nintendo Wii U is struggling. Company president Satoru Iwata explains how Nintendo is altering its hardware development to tackle these challenges.
When the Warcraft movie was first announced in 2009, it was supposed to come out in 2013 as a Sam Raimi-directed production. Now the movie will hit theaters in 2015, directed by Moon and Source Code creator Duncan Jones.
Rockstar Games confirmed on Thursday that Grand Theft Auto V's official release date is September 17, 2013. The studio wants more time to polish the game, but its parent company Take-Two Interactive stands to lose even more money because of the delay.
Bohemia Interactive's got a third game coming out this year alongside ArmA 3 and DayZ. ArmA Tactics is a strategy spinoff of the company's military simulator series, and it's also one of the first games for Nvidia's new handheld gaming device.
17-Bit Entertainment's comes roaring out the gate with a debut game that may not change the world but is a nearly perfect game of quick fix strategy. Skulls of the Shogun is an effervescent panacea of strategy hounds that need a break from XCOM.
After a botched film adaptation and a lackluster sequel in 2010, the Prince of Persia series is primed for a refresh. Despite leaked screens suggesting otherwise, Ubisoft says that it's put the famous franchise on hold.
Nintendo's holiday quarter earnings show that the Nintendo Wii U sold just as well as the Nintendo Wii during its first weeks on sale, but it's doubtful that the console will be able to maintain its momentum going forward.
GungHo Online Entertainment bought up yet another of Japan's remaining independent video game development studios on Wednesday, acquiring Grasshopper Manufacture, the idiosyncratic studio behind No More Heroes, Killer 7, and 2013's Killer is Dead.
eSports broadcasting company Twitch has seen its viewership grow to 23 million people per month since it opened in 2011, and that's just thanks to PC games. Now its broadcasting tools are available on consoles in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
Kameo: Elements of Power directo and key Kinect developer George Andreas has left Microsoft and Rare after sixteen years with the studio. Who lured him away? None other than Sony's motion controller studio, Sony London.
Wargaming.net is one of the biggest gaming companies out there by audience size, with 45 million World of Tanks players in its stable. Now it wants in on the console market, acquiring MechAssault and F.E.A.R. developer Day 1 Studios.
