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The 2008 holiday season was Amazon's best ever, with Nintendo Wii dominating the top sellers in video games and hardware, the online retailer announced today.
Digitimes is reporting that Nintendo has placed extra orders with InvenSense, its component supplier, in preparation for a jump in Wii sales.
Yesterday we had a nice argument regarding Factor 5's shutdown and whether the bad economy was to blame. Now, The Economist examines a "recession-proof" business and comes to a few conclusions of its own.
Gamasutra's Paul Hyman has a gloom and doom look at the used games market and why publishers are very unhappy with the situation; the comments section is surprisingly lively, and it's worth a look.
Sooner or later someone is going to have to give us a definitive answer in the "will gaming survive the recession" debate. This week, 'analysts' reckon that the answer for casual gaming is 'maybe not'.
Microsoft may not be looking at further price cuts for their console as the country tip-toes through this recession, but they're looking at ways to make their console attractive to thrift-minded families.
Yesterday's announcement that things aren't so rosy at Electronic Arts seems to have hit the publisher's stock below the belt.
It's been one hell of a week for Chinese company NetDragon, who announced (along with EA) the development of a Dungeon Keeper MMO. In addition, they've announced the development of Disney Fantasy Online.
The game is to be launched in China in Spring '09; full release after the jump.
US megachain Gamestop have never had much of a foothold here in the UK - they have a couple of shops but are tiddlers compared to big fish GAME. This may change.
With NCSoft slowly sinking, teams being laid off, Richard Garriott himself exiting the company, it should come as no surprise that another round of lay-offs have rippled through the company.
