The NPD Group has confirmed that August game sales declined for the
sixth consecutive month. However, EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich told TG
Daily that he expected September sales to show a "double-digit" lift.
Apple has banned a Commodore 64 emulator just days after approving the iPhone application. Club Cupertino yanked the retro emulator after users managed to access a banned BASIC interface.
A new study says that exclusive content plays a significant role in driving video game sales. The Xbox 360 version of Fallout 3 - which boasts exclusive paid DLC - outsold the PlayStation 3 SKU by nearly 2.5 to 1.
Opinion: Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman reckons that games like Rock Band stop young people from practising real musical instruments - and he's right.
Apple has finally approved Manomio's Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone. However, the retro company was forced to drop BASIC support after Club Cupertino rejected the application for violating the iPhone SDK Agreement (3.3.2).
A spokesman for the Ministry of Truth today announced that Big Brother Amazon would be issuing $30 gift vouchers to citizens inconvenienced by the accidental non-deletion of novels from the Kindle e-book reader.
Aussie police want to jail a site administrator for 20 years for showing a video of another man swinging his baby around on his video sharing site, LiveLeak.
Microsoft has finally decided to retire its "classic" Zune models, including the 8, 16, 80 and 120. According to Paul Thurrott, the upcoming Zune HD will be the "only" MP3 device type sold by the Redmond-based company.
Novint Technologies and SimQuest have announced plans to collaborate on a rehabilitative video game that will help improve cognitive, motor and sensory performance in soldiers suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI).
A rather unusual residence is starting to take shape in Dorking, UK. A British television presenter is building a two-storey house from Lego, and says he plans to live in it.
The Walt Disney Corporation has paid $4 billion to buy Marvel
Entertainment, meaning that Spiderman will waltz with Minnie Mouse, and
Captain America will be on nodding terms with Bambi.
Visits to torrent sites have doubled over the last year, with TV drama Heroes the most popular illegal download, according to research firm Big Champagne.
As predicted, Microsoft has lowered the price point of its Xbox 360 Elite console by $100 to $299.99. The Redmond-based company also slashed its Xbox 360 Pro console by $50 to $249.99.
