It’s common knowledge that the game industry is huge, much larger than the movie and the music industry. Combined.
Analysts from Global Industry Analysts Inc. predict that the market will hit a staggering $91.96 billion in the year 2015.
The current game market is at about half of that, which means a massive growth is [...]

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With today being father’s day - another excuse for card companies to make tons of money - Kotaku took a look at the fathers in video games, focusing on specific genres. It’s an interesting cast, to say the least, and they even offer their take on their favorite and least favorite fathers. Here’s a [...]

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We’ve all been there. You sit down to play a few levels of whatever you’re plowing through at the moment and the next thing you know it feels like someone’s glued sandpaper to the inside of your eyelids and the clock taunts you with an obscenely late hour. A study presented at the recent SLEEP [...]

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Game publisher Midway has received an offer from Warner to acquire the bankrupt company, its assets and all its debts for $33 million. If successful, Warner would take over many of the popular license like Mortal Combat.
However, the deal will not include Midway-owned studios in San Diego and Newcastle. Midway confirmed that the offer [...]

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Used game sales are a huge business — they account for well over 40% of GameStop’s — the largest game retailer in the world — revenue. So it’s of no surprise that more players are looking to enter the market, one of those being Amazon, and now, Walmart.
The mega retailer has opened used games [...]

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Though on occasion films like Valkyrie point out that there were some Nazis who opposed HItler’s racist ideology the fascist group is a popular punching bag for the media. Set a war movie in Vietnam or Korea and it’s impossible to escape the political and social ramifications of those conflicts, yet when you set a [...]

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A new study conducted by Iowa State University suggests that video games might be a little too popular amongst youngsters. According to their results, one in twelve children between the ages of eight and eighteen show signs of being addicted to video gaming. Unfortunately for the anti-video game camp there’s not much going on in [...]

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In the majority of research seeking to probe the link between gaming and aggression researchers use combat-oriented games like Call of Duty or Mortal Kombat. A new study coming from Huddersfield University in the UK suggests that shooting games might not be as affecting as previously thought.
One of the biggest problems with previous aggression research [...]

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Though Jack Thompson might have lost his ability to directly hassle the video game industry, his disbarment hasn’t completely stopped him from doing everything he can to eliminate the evils of video games from the world. Most recently he helped author a bill that was introduced to Utah legislation that proposed amendments to the ‘Truth [...]

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While many in the UK are pointing fingers at the gaming industry for rising obesity rates, researchers are exploring the potential of games to narrow waistlines. Casual gaming site Popcap Games launched a pilot study which tested the potential for casual games to be used as a dieting tool.
The participants took part in a a [...]

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There have been rumors lately suggesting that Nintendo is having problems with the new Wii MotionPlus attachment, and that it might even be delayed past June.
Nintendo has now officially responded to the rumor, saying that “No date was ever announced for MotionPlus — so technically it can’t be delayed”. But as 1UP points out, [...]

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As fond of their vices as many adults are, they often seem just as fond of taking measures to ensure that children are protected from any influence that seems harmful. There’s a campaign underway intended to restrict smoking to R rated movies with the overall philosophy that only adults should see things that only adults [...]

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New York politicians seem to have a fondness for creating video game legislation. Lawmakers are currently in the process of trying to get a tax for downloadable content. Earlier this month democrat Keith L.T. Wright introduced legislation intended to protect minors from games containing profanity and racist stereotypes. Now republican Brian Kolb has introduced another [...]

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Though the medium of video games is relatively new its capabilities have increased faster than any other entertainment industry. Despite the huge and still growing popularity of gaming the medium still doesn’t get much respect. Many people scoff at the medium’s ability to tell a riveting, unique story, despite the fact that many video games [...]

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A study has come out that makes me feel a bit less guilty about never playing anything that came with my DS copy of Brain Training 2 other than the Dr. Mario game they included for relaxation. Nintendo and cognitive researcher Dr. Kawashima have long been touting the ability of some of their games to [...]

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