Nintendo slashes price of its 3DS handheld to $169.99
Nintendo announced today that it has cut the price of its struggling 3DS handheld game player from $249.99 to $169.99. The price cut is effective...
Nintendo posts unexpected quarterly loss and slashes full-year profit forecast
Nintendo reported a first-fiscal-quarter net loss, hurt by both slow sales of its 3DS handheld game device and a strong yen. The Kyoto-Japan-based company...
Updated: Amazon flags Nintendo 3DS for inventory issues
[Update: Amazon has responded to VentureBeat.] Online retailer Amazon.com has flagged the Nintendo 3DS and placed the handheld gaming console under review until further...
Venture capitalist Tim Chang describes the white-hot landscape of game investments
The emerging landscape of games is attracting a lot of money, thanks in part to excitement about Zynga’s upcoming initial public offering and some...
Summer funk continues, video game sales topple 10 percent
In June, video game sales fell once again as the U.S. retail game industry continues to suffer from a low rate of new game releases,...
Nintendo announces Netflix movie streaming on 3DS
Nintendo announced today that owners of its 3DS portable gaming system will be able to watch Netflix streaming movies and TV shows. The app...
The road ahead in mobile games
Mobile gaming is the wide-open battleground of the entertainment industry. While Zynga dominates social games and big publishers rule console games, the global smartphone...
Nintendo ignores fans’ pleas to bring Xenoblade stateside
After a fan campaign asked Nintendo to release North American versions of Wii Japanese RPGs Xenoblade, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower, the company...
Sony rearranges video game management team amid persistent hack attacks
Sony on Wednesday said it planned to rearrange the senior management of its video game unit just months after hackers shut down the PlayStation...
Nintendo: No Smash Bros. for Wii U any time soon
A sequel to Nintendo’s hit fighting game, Super Smash Bros., won’t come out on its next console any time soon, according to a column...