While it's nice to see a growing stable of retail games available for Microsoft's Xbox 360, the gaming industry has a ways to go before the majority of consumers are willing to pony up money to download their games.
A $50 price drop for the Wii goes into effect today. While it's nice to see Nintendo's console tied for the cheapest on the market, it'd be nice to see a bit more stuff thrown inside the box and the company's line of games getting marked down, as well.
With so many games being delayed until after Christmas, at least one gaming executive is thinking the traditionally slow months of January, February and March are looking a little crowded.
Sony's announcement of a $100 price drop for the PlayStation 3 should signal the beginning of the end of the $400 video game console, at least until the next round of hardware.
You'd think with kids out of school for the summer, game publishers would be flooding the marketplace with quality titles looking to capture some of that summer job dollar. But you'd be wrong. "NCAA Football 10" is the only big retail release this week. Luckily, Sony and Microsoft are filling the void with some downloadable goodness.
A pair of intriguing fall releases slipped into next year this week. And while not having to go head-to-head against this fall's blockbusters might help PlayStation 3 exclusive "Heavy Rain," a similar delay for "BioShock 2" is cause for a smidgen of concern.
A free online game show challenges our entertainment-on-demand culture by forcing Xbox 360 owners to log on during primetime to compete for prizes. Complete with a live host, it's a throwback to the days before TiVo and VCRs. It's also kinda awesome.
These days, it seems like it's impossible to escape news stories about how the economic downturn is leading to the closure of all sorts of businesses, from department stores to auto dealerships, restaurants and electronics retailers. Yet one nugget of conventional wisdom we've heard over and over is that the [...]
Earlier this week, I blogged about Time Warner Cable's plans to test pay-by-usage pricing for its high-speed Internet service in four U.S. cities. For owners of the latest generation of game consoles, with their movie-download stores, streaming video capability and extensive online gameplay options, the experiment could result in much [...]
Gaming websites have been abuzz since Time Warner Cable, the nation's second-largest cable company behind Comcast, started to expand its testing of a new, tiered pricing structure that could result in higher cable bills for gamers and other high-bandwidth Internet users. Over at Gamers With Jobs, Lara Crigger did an [...]