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 [...]

Activision won the last week of 2008, at least sales-wise, with Call of Duty: World at War grabbing the first spot according to Chart Track reports. Activison’s game has been a constant No. 1 during the past weeks, being defeated only by FIFA 09 in the race for Christmas number 1. I’m sure they won’t [...]

When it comes to game consoles, there’s a real war out there: PlayStation 3 fanboys vs. Xbox 360 fanboys are ready to fight to the virtual death for their favorite console. But when it comes to mass opinion, they barely have a word to say, since most of the gamers play for fun (as everybody [...]

Although he clearly lost the war, disbarred attorney Jack Thompson won’t quit attacking the video games industry and especially his “friends” over at Take Two Interactive. His latest desire is to lead a Take Two shareholders revolt against Strauss Zelnick, T2’s CEO – of course, there are no signs of such a “revolt” being planned [...]

Finally, that magical time of the year is here, Christmas is coming and I will take a little break from writing in order to celebrate the holidays together with my family. But I’ll have you all in my heart and I’ll certainly miss offering you the latest and most interesting news in the gaming world. [...]

For the past five weeks Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War was the bestselling game in the UK and we were all expecting to see it grab the Christmas number one spot as well, but the shooter was defeated by EA’s FIFA 09. Except for that, Need For Speed Undercover jumped at four, so [...]

We’re just a few days short from finding out the winners of Unigamesity’s Best Games of 2008 awards, but there’s still a small (and rather unpleasant) step that has to be made now, just to make it easier for everybody to understand that huge budgets and obscene amounts of advertising are not the only things [...]

The past financial quarter was not a great one for Take Two, with the company reporting increased losses ($15 Million – which is more than double compared to last year!) despite decent sales recorded by Midnight Club: Los Angeles, NBA 2K9, and Grand Theft Auto IV titles. The company also issued a warning regarding the [...]

The title kind of says it all and proves that things are not going too well in the gaming industry. Following similar reports (with the most important being related to Sony lay offs and Microsoft job cuts), Midway has announced the closure of their Austin game development studio, together with multiple job cuts and game [...]

For the fifth week in a row, Activision’s World War II shooter Call of Duty: World at War tops the UK sales charts, which brings the game one step closer to break the record for the longest uninterrupted run-in to a Christmas No. 1. Surprisingly or not, the two games placed right behind CoD are, [...]