For those of you who want to see one of basketball’s biggest legends get a chance to be on the cover of a new basketball game, your wait is over! Air Jordan has been unleashed by 2K Sports. Check out the image, then go put on your old worn out jersey and try to dunk [...]

According to NPD’s August 2008 figures, Madden 09 on the Xbox 360 sold 1 million units, some 75,000 more than this year. PS3-edition sales slipped by about 22,000 units, falling from 665,000 to 643,000. Madden on the PS2 saw a substantial drop, going from 424,500 units in August 2008 to just 162,000 units last month. [...]

The Walt Disney Company today announced an agreement with Marvel Entertainment to acquire the comic publisher and its stable of over 5,000 characters. The deal is valued at $4 billion in cash and Disney stock. Marvel doesn’t publish games itself, but it frequently licenses out its characters to a wide variety of publishers. Currently, the [...]

We can confirm that this Sunday the XBOX 360 60 gig version will go from 299.99 to 249.99. Check your local ads but it is a lock! Those of us who paid 399.99 when the 20 gig red ring of death box first came out are sure getting hosed! One would have to think that [...]

The console videogame market took a 31% nose dive for the month of June! Videogames are losing more ground than the person behind Oprah at an all you can eat buffet. Can July fair any better with NCAA 2010 and The Bigs 2? We will have to wait until next month to find out. Until [...]

Sixty-eight percent of American households play computer or video games, according to new research from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which represents U.S. computer and video game publishers. The number of households playing games increased three percent over 2008, illustrating the expanding use of entertainment software across all demographics. The ESA released these findings as [...]

Eidos Interactive and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has confirmed that Batman: Arkham Asylum will be released at the end of summer 2009. Although the game never had a solid release date, it was expected to arrive in late spring or early summer. The pressed on a reason for the delay, the developer had the following [...]

For the first time in its storied some say cursed history, the cover of EA Sports’ “Madden NFL” video game will feature two cover athletes: Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu and Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald. “Being on the cover of ‘Madden’ is a real honor,” Fitzgerald said Friday after Electronic Arts made the announcement. [...]

Nintendo has announced that its newly released DSi handheld–the follow-up to the original DS and the DS Lite–has nearly doubled its predecessor’s debut sales. Citing internal tracking numbers, Nintendo said the DSi sold 435,000 units in the US in its first week of release, compared to the DS Lite’s first-week tally of just 226,300 systems [...]

Researchers at the University of Rochester in New York have announced findings claiming that playing games, specifically those ones oriented around action, improve contrast sensitivity function (CSF); that is the ability to detect subtle differences in shades of grey. While the same researchers had previously found that games improved visual acuity and peripheral vision, the [...]