A comprehensive article at SeekingAlpha by Bruce Everiss, who was part of both Imagine and Codemasters in their start-up days, calls the video game industry "one of the...

According to the latest NPD Group sales data, April 2008 was pretty darn good for the video game industry, with $1.23 billion dollars in sales in the United States. Yes,...

Update at 3:30 p.m. PDT: This post has been modified to reflect the public release by NPD of its April video game industry sales figures. Nintendo's Wii was the...

Sometimes a rumor is a rumor only because the press release hasn't hit yet, as is the case with Sega's newly announced partnership with PlatinumGames, the studio formed...

Sometimes a rumor is a rumor only because the press release hasn't hit yet, as is the case with Sega's newly announced partnership with PlatinumGames, the studio formed...

As Destructoid's resident backwater, inbred, slack-jawed hillbilly, I've developed something of a thick skin when it comes to snarky remarks about slavery, obeisity,...

Among gamers, the British Board of Film Classification is best known for issuing a controversial ban on Manhunt 2 last summer. In the wake of the Byron Review, however,...

It's hard out here for an independent developer, and one of the most nebulous areas of independent game development is shopping titles around to publishers and then...

Filed under: Action You know, it's a funny thing about adjectives in the video game industry. Final Fantasy is never actually final, the company that made Cabela's 4x4...

Last week, GamePolitics first began to suspect that Activision and Vivendi might have left the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) after noticing that the game...

Xbox LIVE tops 12 million members globally as Xbox 360 console sales hit more than 19 million worldwide. REDMOND, Wash. — May 14, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today...

During its call to investors, Electronic Arts said that it will no longer provide quarterly estimates of its financial guidance. Why? The company said that in the event...

John Douglas, a former game industry worker who says he has played over 7,000 titles, has once again criticized violence in video games. As reported by Christian...

Electronic Arts announced this morning that it is extending its tender offer for outstanding shares of Take Two stock until May 16th. The original offer was set to...

The government of South Korea has announced that Microsoft plans to invest $147 million in various South Korean industries including video games, in-car technology, and...

With a reported 9.9 million Xbox 360s sold through in the United States as of the end of March, something catastrophic would have had to happen to prevent Microsoft from...

As expected, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed into a law a bill providing financial incentives to movies, TV shows, commercials, music videos and game developers. As...

Filed under: Features, PoliticsEach week Dennis McCauley contributes The Political Game, a column on the collision of politics and video games: Unless you've been...

Hurray, time to spool out more GameSetLinks, headed by an interesting report on the state of the game biz in New York - at least partly affected by those horrid...

As expected, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed into a law a bill providing financial incentives to movies, TV shows, commercials, music videos and game developers. As...