For Westerners, the conditions are shocking. Workers slave away for hours on end, pulling overtime, until their legs…
2011 is over. So let's look back at last year and suss out what the ten biggest games in Japan were.
On Jan. 12 in Osaka, a grade schooler and a friend were playing video games outside. It was 5:30 and getting dark…
Point | LAS VEGAS: Sony's Kaz Hirai shows off the new Xperia phone. (Photo: Jack Dempsey | AP)
On March 2, 2011, 21-year-old Arid Uka walked up to one U.S. airmen outside the airport in Frankfurt Germany and…
A U.S.-born man who appeared to confess on Iranian state television last month that he allegedly spied for…
Nothing lasts forever. Not you, not me, and certainly not game companies. Just ask Midway, Pandemic, and Acclaim.…
Twenty-one year-old Christopher Moore swung by his local Game Stop in Norfolk, Virginia. He paid cash for an Xbox…
Last summer, Nintendo revealed that the Wii U, its upcoming new home console, would be released sometime between…
Kim Jong-il passed away this week—something almost predicted by Homefront, a video game. The question now is: what's…
Only five! There are probably many, many more, but let's start with with five. Web research site My Navi News polled…
Teh Future | TOKYO, JAPAN: Earlier this fall, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata talked 2012. (Photo: Itsuo Inouye | AP)
During the Nintendo 3DS's launch week, the portable sold 371,326 units in Japan. When Nintendo slashed the priced,…

The Spike Video Game Awards are an event that says more about the coming year than it does about the current one.…
There's been a story kicking around for a few years now that Peter Moore, formerly of Sega and Microsoft, was the…
The internet was rocked. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and Zelda, reportedly said he was stepping down.…

Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto may not be leaving Nintendo or the games industry entirely, but the news that he's…
Before there were smartphones, Japanese people simply carried clamshell mobile phones. They were a bit harder to…
As soon as games launch, he or she's got 'em. This gamer doesn't just play games, this gamer collects them. Their…
Getting Ready | NORTH BEND, WASH: Nintendo of America readies stock for the holiday season. (Photo: Ted S. Warren |…