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 [...]

Valve has revealed that Left 4 Dead has been a huge success. The PC and Xbox 360 editions of the game have combined to sell more than 2.5 million units at retail worldwide, according to the publisher. That number does not include sales through Valve’s online distribution platform Steam, a statistic the publisher traditionally keeps [...]

Speaking at the Luminaries Lunch during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Pardo would only state that Blizzard is actively in discussions with Microsoft, seemingly confirming the development process of new console hardware is under way. However, other developers at the lunch have not spoken to either Microsoft or Sony about future plans, which [...]

A startup called OnLive announced a brand-new game distribution system  that, if it works as planned, could change the videogame market forever. OnLive, which was started by WebTV founder Steve Perlman and former Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey, is aiming to launch a system–seven years in the works–that will digitally distribute first-run, AAA games from publishers [...]

Fudzilla published a story Friday suggesting Microsoft plans to stop selling the Xbox 360 Elite, reserving such configuration for limited edition Xbox 360 bundles such as the upcoming Resident Evil Limited Edition Console Bundle. Obviously the recession would be the reason behind this decision.