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DeNA.

"It's-a me!"

Video game consoles can do a lot more than just play video games.

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Roughly one-third of U.S. households with video consoles use them to stream online TV and movies to television.

Video game consoles are far more important in the TV streaming market than they get credit for.

Video game consoles are far more important in the TV streaming market than they get credit for.

Better value, better games.

So much for the end of console gaming: Sony sold a million units of its PlayStation 4 in its first 24 hours on the market. In the age of the iPhone and iPad, a million devices sold really doesn’t sound like much. But looking back on the history of the […]

Neither consumers nor developers are on board.

Your iPhone becomes the controller.

Playing video games on the Nintendo Wii can help surgeons improve hand-eye coordination and should be used to enhance their training, according to a new study.

Nintendo’s Wii U and Gamepad boast some impressive capabilties.

Children of the Great Recession are scared of investing and suspicious of banks in general.

Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind some of the most popular game franchises in the world like The Legend of Zelda and Mario, just announced he is retiring as head game designer of Nintendo.

Last month I pre-ordered The Legend Of Zelda Skyward Sword. I grew up playing video games like Mario and Donkey Kong, and I read the new Zelda was being called the best game ever made. It received an average rating of 94/100.

Well, here’s a straight answer to a question we’ve all been asking.

Nintendo will release a new model of the Wii that is slimmer and cheaper than the current model in time for the Holiday season.

Half of Netflix streaming viewers watch the service from their game consoles, according to Nielsen.

A video of what may be the Wii 2 has leaked on YouTube.

Nintendo announced that it’s cutting the Wii’s price to $149.99 starting May 15. You’ll also get a free copy of Mario Kart Wii.

The upcoming “Wii 2” (codenamed “Project Cafe”) won’t have a hard disk drive to hold game saves and other content.

Nintendo says it missed its target for its 3DS in the U.S. and Europe, selling only 3.61 million. It had expected to sell at least 4 million.

After reporting some poor revenues this week, Nintendo decided to whet our appetites by confirming they will be releasing a successor to the Wii console next year.

Nintendo finally acknowledged that it will launch a successor to its popular Wii console in 2012.

rumours about the Nintendo’s next video game console started swirling last week. Now we have a bit more juicy details.The Wii 2 (code-named “Project Café”) is said to have a controller with a six-inch touchscreen, two analogue sticks, and eight buttons. The new console should also support the current model […]

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Nintendo is expected to debut a new video game console to replace its ageing Wii next year. the Japanese company is expected to make that announcement at the E3 trade show in June, according to Game Informer.

By James Brightman

By James Brightman

By James Brightman

Here’s an (somewhat) insane ad for a German Wii game that’s been making the rounds on Twitter. It’s very sexxxy. So, you might not want to watch it at work, unless you want all your coworkers to laugh at it with you.

[credit provider=”AP”] Sony used to rule gaming. But its latest PlayStation, though it’s done well, has been overshadowed by Microsoft‘s Xbox 360 and (especially) Nintendo‘s Wii.And its mobile efforts have always foundered. Its first PlayStation Portable was a really high-powered (and expensive) device while Nintendo’s DS had innovative dual screen […]

It’s time for Nintendo to bring out the Wii HD, or the Wii 2, or something new.

Gaming consoles are the new media hubs, according to data from Nielsen. About one quarter of the people that own a Xbox, Wii, or PlayStation are using them to watch web video.

If Google is actually serious about reinventing TV, it should have done something about the remote control, too.The images we’ve seen about the remote that Sony will supposedly be offering for its Google TVs are mind boggling. A big hunk of plastic with a million buttons. As we said earlier, […]

[credit provider=”Engadget” url=”http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/05/sonys-google-tv-controller-outed-on-abcs-nightline-video/”] As you may have seen by now, this is supposedly the remote control that Sony will offer for its new TV sets with Google TV software built-in. This via a sneak peek on Nightline; more details here at Engadget.We don’t mean to be rude, but this is […]

Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida believes that the next generation gaming console war will kick off with the launch of the next Xbox and Wii systems.

[credit provider=”Gizmodo” url=”http://gizmodo.com/5565294/playstation-move-isnt-much-more-than-a-wii-hd”] I had high hopes for PlayStation Move since its announcement. Having played around with various titles for about an hour today, I have to say: if Sony’s technology is better, it isn’t showing in its first-gen software.Frankly, I’m not sure that it ever will.

[credit provider=”VentureBeat ” url=”http://games.venturebeat.com/2010/06/17/from-cirque-to-booth-babes-our-photo-gallery-of-marketing-games-at-e3/”] The E3 video game trade show ended yesterday after five days of events that drew more than 45,000 attendees.The show blends the traditional marketing of “booth babes” and “booth dudes” targeting young gamers as well as the nouveau style of marketing that Microsoft used with its […]

Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata is telling his executives that Apple is the “enemy of the future,” Leo Lewis at the Times Online reports.

Netflix’s newish movie streaming service on the Nintendo Wii is off to a good start: Nintendo of America COO Reggie Fils-Aime just said on CNBC that almost 1 million Wii users have “participated” in the Netflix streaming system so far, which Netflix debuted this spring.

Netflix customers can now watch Netflix’s instant streaming movies and TV shows on Nintendo’s Wii.

The console wars just got a little nastier.

For the first time in two years, Microsoft’s Xbox won a monthly battle in the U.S. game console wars. Microsoft sold 422,000 Xboxs in February, while Nintendo only sold 398,000 Wiis, according to NPD Group.

Sony (SNE) is planning to “relaunch” its poorly-selling PSPgo handheld device in the near future, according to Gamervision’s sources.

Huge sales numbers during the holidays weren’t enough to save Nintendo’s (NTDOY) Q3 profits, which fell 22% from last year, Reuters reports.

Sega announced today that it is releasing a Genesis emulator for the iPhone, Gizmodo reports.

Sony (SNE) has confirmed that its Wii-style motion controller — rumoured to be called “Arc” — won’t be released until fall. The industry had expected a spring launch.

Third-party developers are increasingly unhappy about Nintendo’s (NTDOY) handling of online gaming.

The video game industry has entered 2010 with the best momentum it could hope for, according to sales data from the NPD Group.

Lazard Capital analyst Barton Crockett slapped a “sell” on Netflix today, with a $41 price target, saying he thinks the company’s stock hit “a peak.”

Netflix announced this morning that it will bring streaming to the Wii starting this Spring.

Here are today’s top stories in video games:

Gaming industry sales in Japan were down 6.9% to $5.9 billion last year, Enterbrain’s report on 2009 reveals.

Before we get to our 2010 precictions, let’s recap how the video game industry fared in 2009:

Until last week, no PlayStation 3 game had ever sold a million copies in Japan. Then Final Fantasy XIII did it in just one day.

Nintendo is going back to the basics with the release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. According to Nintendo of America CEO Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo is doing great during this holiday season, but there is obviously no chance of catching up to last year’s numbers.

Enterbrain, the publisher of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, has released life-to-date sales figures for the Nintendo (NTDOY) Wii and Sony (SNE) PlayStation 3 in Japan.

Nintendo’s U.S. Wii sales continued sliding in November, as they fell 38% year over year to 1.3 million units, according to NPD group. (Yes, they increased from October, as they do every year. But they’re still down from last year, despite a $50 price cut at the end of September.)

Sony (SNE) has filed a patent application for an object that looks like the company’s forthcoming Wii-like motion wand, Kotaku reports.

All the video game consoles are bragging about their sales numbers during the Thanksgiving holiday week.

The Wii’s market share might be sliding overall, but Nintendo says it has a iron lock on one part of the market — women.

Non-PC gaming sales in the U.S. totalled just $1.03 billion in October, down 18% from a year ago, according to Wall Street reports citing NPD reports.

Since it was announced that earnings were down for the quarter, and likely for the year as well, the decline and fall of Nintendo has been the subject of much discussion.

At Arc90, one of our meeting rooms is proudly called the Wii Room. It’s an informal meeting space with a whiteboard, projector and…a Nintendo Wii. When we first got the Wii a couple of years ago, it was a universal hit at Arc90. The bowling and golf games in the […]

The Wii is a victim of competition and the strong Yen

Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer recently sat down for an interview with Gizmodo. In the first segment, he discusses gaming. Some highlights:

Sony’s (SNE) Playstation 3 surged ahead of the Nintendo (NTDOY) Wii to lead home console sales in September, according to the recently released report from NPD.

Last month, we predicted that price cuts to the Xbox and PS3 would force Nintendo to follow suit with its own price cut for the Wii platform. That move may be here.

Apple sold about 45 million iPhones and iPod touch devices after two years on the market. How does that compare against some other top gadgets?

The Xbox 360’s failure rate is five times the rate as the PS3 and eight times the rate as the Wii, The Consumerist reports, citing a study by Game Informer. The Xbox failure rate is 54.2%, the PS3’s is 10.2%, and the Wii’s 6.8%.

Nintendo’s innovative, inexpensive Wii gaming console has been the hottest thing in gaming this half of the decade. But the Wii is starting to lose its shine.