APRIL 28, 2009 • Having lost the Chinese World of Warcraft contract to Netease, The9 Ltd. has decided to compete with a new MMO of its own design: World of...

APRIL 28, 2009 • In the year since the Wii was released in South Korea, retailers there have sold 500,000 units. Wii software has not sold so well, however. The...

[caption id="attachment_3247" align="alignleft" width="375"] Original marketing artwork for Ultima Online.[/caption] April 27, 2009 • DFC Intelligence is releasing a series of reports that deal with emerging models in the game...

APRIL 27, 2009 • GameFly has filed an official complaint against the U.S. Postal service accusing the latter of discrimination. The accusation is that the USPS manually culls many of...

APRIL 24, 2009 • U.K.-based Empire Interactive closed its doors after not being able to find a buyer to take over the publisher's operations. Russian publisher and distributor Noviy Disk...

[caption id="attachment_3228" align="alignleft" width="375"] A Nintendo DS bundled with Brain Age 2.[/caption] APRIL 24, 2009 • Casual games have been around since the dawn of video games and have been...

APRIL 24, 2009 • Apple Inc.'s App Store passed the 1 billion download mark, based on 21 million iPhones sold to date. The ratio of purchased downloads to free downloads...

APRIL 22, 2009 • Sweden's SimBin Studio's PC racer, Volvo: The Game, is slated for a free downloadable release at the end of May. The sponsored title allows players to...