The Los Angeles Times has taken a look at the October NPD numbers, which show that dancing games like Just Dance 3 and Dance Central 2 have grown in sales 326 per cent over last year. That far outpaces the next nearest fastest-growing genre, fighting games, which grew just 33 per cent over the same period of time. More »
Jamie Kennedy, star of Son of the Mask, Malibu’s Most Wanted and Wii game Real Heroes: Firefighter doesn’t always deliver brilliantly inspired performances. See his E3 2007 Activision press conference hosting gig, for example, which he’s still really really sensitive about, according to a recent Twitter tirade. More »
Nowadays TVs are doing more than ever before. Panasonic and Samsung have both announced that their future televisions will feature “app stores” built in, stores which include… video games. Is this the future? Can you imagine a world without consoles, a world in which games are streamed directly through your TV? I say ‘no’. Nick Broughall from Gizmodo says ‘yes’. What say you? More »
During the latest episode of Bonus Round, analyst supreme Michael Pachter may have accidentally let the cat out of the bag about Playstation 3 racer Twisted Metal 2. The analyst mentioned the game while talking about solid games coming to the PS3 that don’t have Move support. David Jaffe says via Twitter it was a joke. Damage control? More »
Electronic Arts plans to grow its digital game business to become one-third of their total revenue over the next few years and that includes starting to charge for what one analyst described as very long game demos. More »
The folks at GameTrailers invited us to take part in the most recent episode of Bonus Round, a chance to chat about (some of) the year’s biggest games hitting in 2010. This is that episode! More »
