NPD: U.S. video game spending up 24% to $9.1 billion in Q3 2018
Consumer spending on video games in the U.S. during Q3 2018 (July to September) reached $9.1 billion in the U.S., according to The NPD...
Strategy Analytics: Nintendo will overtake Sony as top console maker in 2019
Nintendo will become the top console maker in 2019, according to a new report by Strategy Analytics. It predicts that Nintendo will sell more...
Fallout 76 special edition doesn’t deliver promised collectible bag, Bethesda offering $5 in-game as an apology
Fallout 76 has been having a rough start. The multiplayer take on Bethesda‘s postapocalyptic series has suffered from bugs, poor performance, and criticism since...
Nintendo Switch had its best-selling week yet thanks to Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Nintendo announced today that the Switch had the best five sales ever in the U.S. for a Nintendo console during the five day period...
Red Dead Online beta: Confusion, crashes, and connection problems
The Red Dead Online beta is live … sort of. Rockstar Games launched a test version of its multiplayer cowboy sim today for PlayStation...
Red Dead Online beta — Here’s how the multiplayer open world begins (updated)
Rockstar Games launched the beta version of Red Dead Online for some of its players today. So far, Red Dead Online is only be...
Nifty Games raises $3 million for mobile and digital console sports games
Nifty Games has raised $3 million in funding to make high-quality sports games on mobile and digital platforms. Game veterans Jon Middleton and Pete Wanat started...
PlayStation Classic review — 32-bit bliss even with the uneven library
Sony enters the retro console marketplace with the PlayStation Classic, a plug-and-play console that looks like a miniature version of Sony’s 1995 debut system....
Boogerman creator Chris Tremmel on entering mobile gaming with Jam City
Chris Tremmel made his name as one of the creators of the classic 16-bit platformer Boogerman, a game that thrived during the gross-out humor...
Rockstar Games abandons Agent, 9 years after reveal
Rockstar Games and its parent company Take-Two Interactive Software have apparently abandoned development of the espionage game Agent. The game was announced in 2009...