The NPD Group released video game sales data for the month of January and total industry sales hit $1.18 billion. Despite the final figure being down 6% this year, software sales rose by 11% to $610.6 million. Contributing to the… Read More »

There is no question that the size of the Final Fantasy community is rivaled by few. Its fan base stretches across all ages, genders, and regions of the world. Sorry Halo 3 crowd, but you don’t have anything on Square-Enix’s… Read More »

Far Cry movie trailer

Yikes, this movie trailer sums up all the reasons why video game movies get a bad rap. Hey, at least I saw the classic red shirt for about two seconds. [flash width="480" height="392"]http:/www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=30630[/flash]  

Dark Sector has been refused classification in Australia, disallowing the sale, advertisment or importation of the game. Now this isn’t the first time the OFLC — the Australian Ratings Board — has banned games because of extreme graphical violence. Soldier… Read More »

RRoD is an acronym that literally sends chills up and down the spines of faithful Xbox 360 owners. Otherwise known as the Red Ring of Death — a condition in which the normally green LEDs on the front panel of… Read More »

Being a PC gamer allows me to enjoy great titles like The Witcher. Coming totally out of left field (in this case an ocean) during a turbulent time of excellent games usually would of spelt disaster for a seemingly unknown… Read More »

South Korea gaming publisher NCsoft released its fiscal financial results for 2007 and reported sales of 330 billion won ($355.1 million) and net profit of 45 billion won ($48.4 million). The year’s net profit was a 20% gain from the… Read More »

One of the PC gaming gems of 2007 was World in Conflict, a RTS game from Massive Entertainment. Their twist on the traditional strategy gameplay along with an alternative history scenario storyline involving an evading Soviet Union attacking and devastating… Read More »

After the announcement that NVIDIA would acquire PhysX physics software/hardware developer AGEIA earlier this month, rumors ran rampant that the video card developer would integrate the PhysX technology straight into its video cards but when will we see them hit… Read More »

In the next issue of Game Informer, we are treated to a bunch of new and exclusive content regarding some pretty sweet sounding games. First is an exclusive look at the new Aliens: Colonial Marines game which we’ll see for… Read More »