Electronic Arts plans to start the new year strong and write a new line in their own history books: the company plans to release its first DS exclusive game, Football Academy DS. The game will be released in March this year and, just to make sure no confusions arise, I have to tell you that [...]

The stats at the beginning of 2009 don’t look too great for the giants Activsion Blizzard since the stock price fell to the lowest point since 2006: $8.14 (recorded by Activision before merging with Blizzard). By the end of the day, stock prices increased to $8.18 which is still incredibly low compared to the company’s [...]

Even though in 2008 in Japan things did not look too good game sales-wise, in Europe and especially in the UK things were a lot different. According to ELSPA reports quoted by Eurogamer, the videogame sales in the United Kingdom reached all time highs in 2008, with almost 83 million games sold (which mean that [...]

Although sales were not as high as anticipated for Media Molecule’s “console seller” LittleBigPlanet, the game still sold enough copies to be granted Gold status by the ELSPA in the UK. This means that the game sold more than 200k copies in the United Kingdom only.

However, according to Edge Online, Sony’s game might go for [...]

As long as the army uses video games to train (or even recruit) soldiers, why not use video games to train politicians, too? This seems to be the question asked by one-man developer Positech Games, creators of the Democracy series. In order to right the wrongs, the developer is offering free copies of Democracy 2, [...]

I was checking once more the great looking Ninja Blade screenshots recently released by Microsoft (you can read a full presentation of the game on our website) when a strange image stuck my eyes: the one you can see for yourself to the left of the screen. Hideous monster with a pair of glasses that [...]

Gears 2, one of the most popular Xbox Live games last year, didn’t have a flawless multipayer and the game’s developers are aware of that. The good news is that they’re planning to fix all the issues, so by the end of January we’re going to see a Gears of War 2 patch which will [...]

Although it appears that the crisis does not fully affect the video games industry (take the impressive Xbox 360 sales as an example), it’s just an illusion. For example, Japanese sales declined in 2008, ending the year 15% down from the previous year. Analysts are unsure if sales will keep falling throughout this year as [...]

I’m sure that many of you were wondering if they have a strong enough computer to enjoy the full experience of the upcoming Relic title, Dawn of War II. It seems that the developers knew that and they decided to release both the minimum system requirements, and the recommended ones. So here is the minimum [...]

Last year was a great one for Microsoft and the Xbox 360, as you could easily imagine following our previous report regarding the 8 million Xbox consoles sold during the last holiday season. But that was not all, since all year long people kept buying Xbox 360s and creating XBL accounts, driving the life-to-date unit [...]