Wii U

In January, China Daily USA reported that China might lift its ban on the sale of video games. "We are reviewing the policy and have conducted some surveys and held discussions with other ministries on the possibility of opening up the game console market," an unnamed source from the Ministry of...

After two years of declines, the video game industry is beginning to rebound. According to The Wall Street Journal, sales of new hardware (consoles like Xbox 360 and handhelds like Nintendo 3DS), new software and accessories have risen one percent in the United States. The collective sales of...

Another week, another batch of headlines that are nearly dominated by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). From patent filings and trade-in deals to Apple TV and Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) sales troubles that were caused by the iPad Mini, Apple stole the spotlight nearly every day this week. The exception is...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has reportedly lowered the number of Xbox One units that it expects to ship to retailers in 2013. According to a DigiTimes translation of a report by the Chinese-language publication Economic Daily News, only 6.2 million Xbox One units will arrive before the end of the...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer will retire in the next 12 months. The announcement, which was made just 30 minutes before the market open Friday morning, came more than a year after Ballmer reportedly told his colleagues when he planned to retire. At the time, no one knew when he would...

First Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was expected to add apps (and most notably games) to Apple TV. Then Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) was rumored to be developing its first game console as a counterattack to Apple's efforts. Now Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is rumored to be getting into the market as well....

Consumers have not always been kind to console and handheld manufacturers. While Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have earned a degree of loyalty for producing iPhones and iPads, gamers are less likely to stand by their favorite hardware maker. This became evident the moment that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT...

After delaying Pikmin 3, Wii Fit U, Wii Party U and numerous others, Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) (OTC Pink: NTDOY) is attempting to fill its software void with a spate of smartphone games. Instead of developing its own games for smartphones (which Nintendo has repeatedly stated that it will never do),...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) stunned the world last week when it announced that it would no longer require Xbox One users to connect to the Internet every single day to play their games. At the same time, Microsoft also eliminated the anti-used game measures that would make it difficult for consumers...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has received a fair amount of complaints for choosing to design Xbox One to interfere with the way users play, sell and share their games. In the days after Xbox One was unveiled, consumers looked to Sony (NYSE: SNE) to see if it would copy Microsoft's strategy and...

Nearly 13 years ago, thousands of consumers lined up to purchase Sony's (NYSE: SNE) second game console, PlayStation 2. On a per store basis, the lines were rather short. Most Target (NYSE: TGT) locations, for example, received no more than a couple dozen people who were willing to wait overnight...

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) CFO Blake Jorgensen has confirmed that, contrary to the previous comments from company spokesperson Jeff Brown (and a barrage of negative tweets from an EA engineer), the company is developing games for Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) console. According to IGN, Jorgensen made...

Is the timing coincidental or a sign of things to come? Target.com (NYSE: TGT) has lowered the price of Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest console, Wii U, from $299.99 to $239.99. According to GameSpot, Target has only chosen to reduce the price of the basic 8GB version. That is not the only Wii U-...

In roughly 24 hours, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will hold a press conference to unveil the first tease of the company's third game console. Commonly referred to as "Xbox 720" or "Xbox Next," the new console is rumored to be called "Xbox Fusion" or "Xbox Infinity." Microsoft will introduce the...

Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI), the publisher behind the hugely successful Call of Duty franchise, has repeatedly stated that it has been disappointed by the launch of Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) latest console, Wii U. Earlier this month, Avalanche Studios (the developer behind the Grand Theft Auto-...