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Nintendo Breaking Records, Taking Names In Europe
Joining Nintendo of America today in their back-slapping and high-fiving are Nintendo of Europe, who have released a number of impressive tallies for sales of both hardware and software. More »Sony Increasing The Storage Capacity Of Blu-Ray Discs
Sony and Panasonic have announced plans to increase the capacity of Blu-Ray discs (such as those used by PS3 games) from 25GB to 33.4GB. Hideo Kojima will be so pleased! More »Nintendo President: Wii Not Out Of The Woods Yet
As 2009 rolled on, it looked like Nintendo's Wii was finally running out of steam. But then Black Friday came along, and the console broke records. Same with December. Despite this, however, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata is still urging caution. More »A New Year's Message From Square Enix's President
To kick off 2010, Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada has issued a public statement outlining the publishers corporate goals as they head into the new year. And that goal is? "Taking Root". More »Capcom Still Burning Over Bionic Commando Failure
In a Q&A session held earlier this week, president Haruhiro Tsujimoto became the second high profile Capcom employee this month to get all negative when it comes to the company collaborating with Western studios. More »Sony Trimming More Costs
2009 wasn't the best year for Sony, at least financially. So the Japanese company is looking to trim a little more of its overheads, specifically with the way PlayStation games are distributed. More »The Sports Video Games of the Year
In naming the best video games of the year, the sports genre is often left to fight over a single award. And as I've discussed before, one probably isn't winning an overall game-of-the-year anytime soon. More »Take-Two Sells Off Jack Of All Games, Goes All In On Publishing
What would make Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive revise its yearly earnings downward by an impressive $290 million for the year, just four days after previous guidance? The selling of its distribution business, Jack of All Games. More »Investor's Big Stake in Take-Two Reignites Buyout Chatter
The notorious investor Carl Icahn disclosed late this week he owns more than 11 percent of Take-Two's shares, a stake large enough to restart talk that the publisher faces a buyout. More »Infinity Ward Sweeps First Annual Inside Gaming Awards
While Uncharted 2: Among Thieves got the top nod from Spike's annual Video Game Awards, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 managed to sweep a different video game ceremony just one day ahead of the VGAs. More »Report: Sony Still Losing Money On Every PS3 Sold
One of the main reasons Sony ditched the "George Foreman" build of the PS3 and went with the new "Slim" was to cut back on manufacturing costs. Try and get back into the black. But they're not quite there. More »EA Sports: One Billion Games Played
EA as a whole may have been having a rough time of it lately, but EA Sports are doing just fine, as evidenced by the number of online matches the brand has played host to in 2009. More »"Cultural Differences" Mean Capcom Developer And West Can't Collaborate
Capcom have been big on Western collaborations lately. Two Bionic Commando games, Dark Void, Dead Rising 2, all have been handled by Western teams. But not everybody at Capcom's Japanese HQ is as keen as management to "go west". More »Square Enix President Calls "Western Game" Label "Terribly Discriminatory"
Gotta give Square Enix credit. For an enormous (and still conservative) company, it sure is trying hard to expand its horizons. Just listen to company boss Yoichi Wada talk. More »Take-Two Delays Max Payne 3 Again, Blames Baseball For Bad Quarter
Originally planned to hit this "winter" then moved to the first half of next year, Rockstar Games' third Max Payne title won't hit until August 2010 at the earliest, publisher Take-Two Interactive announced today. More »EA Might Release Even Fewer Games
When Electronic Arts sacked 1500 employees recently, it also binned a number of titles in production at the studio. Not that they're done trimming the number of games the company releases. More »Report: Nintendo Scaling Back Wii Production
According to a report from Nikkei, Nintendo has begun the process of reducing the number of Wiis being manufactured. More »Square Enix Anticipating The Death of Consoles
Square Enix may be notorious for looking back when developing games, but when it comes to the strategy of big business, they're looking as far forward as the human eye can see. More »Square Enix Cuts European Jobs
'Tis the season to be...unemployed, sadly, with Square Enix announcing today that job cuts are on the way for the company's London studio. More »Nintendo's Denise Kaigler Has Left The Building
Nintendo's vice president of corporate affairs, Denise Kaigler, has announced that she'll be leaving the company after less than two years in the position. More »Gameloft Cuts Android Efforts, Says It's Not Alone
The French mobile games developer Gameloft has scaled back its development on Google's Android platform, complaining that the Android application store is "not as neatly done" and offers little enticement to buy games offered there. More »