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Hotline Miami slaughters its way onto Sony’s PS Vita and PlayStation 3

Dennaton Games' indie hit Miami Hotline is making the jump to consoles in 2013. A new edition of the mad paean to the 1980s is coming to PlayStation 3 and PS Vita.

Rock Band goes on farewell tour before it stops releasing new songs in April 2013

Rock Band creator Harmonix announced that come April 2nd, it will stop releasing new downloadable content for its music games, ending 275 weeks of regular updates.
gamestop fights to keep used games on playstation 4 and xbox 720

GameStop fights to keep used games on PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720

GameStop's CFO Rob Llloyd says that the retailer is doing all it can to make sure that Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox 720 continue supporting used games.

System Shock 2 returns!

In the fourteen years since System Shock 2 came out, Irrational has become one of the most respected studios in the game industry. Now the game is back.

Fuse preview: The creator of Ratchet & Clank is a square peg trying to prove it can fit in a round hole

The game formerly known as Overstrike is just weeks away from release, so how is Insomniac's first multiplatform game Fuse shaping up?

Nintendo Wii U sales spiral down in January according to the NPD Group

The Nintendo Wii U selling at 38 percent below the Wii launch. How low? Its sales are identical to the Nintendo 3DS just before its historic price cut.

The ESRB ratings work: 85% of parents understand the system

It may be impossible to make ESRB ratings more effective according to the board, as 85 percent of parents with game-playing kids are the system familiar with.

Can WWE games make 2K Sports a video game champion again?

Once a major competitor to EA's sports empire, the 2K Sports label has dwindled to just two games a year. Now that it's picked up the WWE license, can 2K Sports regain its championship status?

Wargaming continues to expand. And next, the world…

Not content with acquiring one studio in the past month, World of Tanks creator Wargaming.net acquired Gas Powered Games, creator of Dungeon Siege, on Tuesday.

Nintendo embraces the mercenary world of DLC with New Super Luigi U

Nintendo is remaking the New Super Mario Bros. U from the ground up for Luigi's DLC expansion. New Super Luigi U, though, is the type of content Nintendo offered for free in the past.

Nintendo re-releasing Wii games, now with an extra dimension!

Nintendo didn't wow with new Mario games, but the announcement of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D provides an interesting glimpse into the future of the Nintendo 3DS handheld.

GameStop closes even more locations as physical game sales decline

Bracing itself for the impending new console market, GameStop will close 50 more stores in addition to the 200 it originally planned to shut down in 2013.

A tantalizing update on The Last Guardian from the game’s creator

The Last Guardian director Fumito Ueda gave a brief update on his long in the works title, promising that he is still in creative control of the PlayStation 3 game.

Sega and Gearbox Software stand by studio’s work on Aliens: Colonial Marines amid critical drubbing

Rumors suggest that Gearbox Software outsourced the entire single-player campaign of Aliens: Colonial Marines to another studio, but Gearbox and Sega both say the game is Gearbox's.

How an unlikely writing duo penned Gears of War: Judgment across continents

Writers Rob Auten and Tom Bissell discuss creating Gears of War: Judgment with studios in North Carolina and Poland while also living in two different cities.

Homebrew hero keeps Nintendo DS alive with a port of Valve’s Portal

After nine years, Nintendo is ready to retire the Nintendo DS, but fans of the console aren't ready to let it die just yet. One homebrew game maker is working on Portal DS.

Fan filmmakers beat Bad Robot to the punch with Half-Life: The Freeman Chronicles miniseries

Enter the Freeman, a short fan-made film based on Valve's Half-Life games, will expand into a full miniseries this year in Half-Life: The Freeman Chronicles.

New Vita may be on the way, along with reasonably priced memory (finally)

Rumor has it that the company will introduce a new PS Vita 4G model alongside the PlayStation 4 this month, as well as lower cost memory.

Rayman Legends’ developers are openly protesting Ubisoft’s decision to delay the game

Nintendo, Nintendo Wii U owners, and Rayman fans were none too pleased when Ubisoft delayed the release of Rayman Legends, but no one is as upset as the development team.

Xbox 360 has sold over 76 million consoles, but Kinect is slowing down

Microsoft's Xbox 360 will turn eight-years-old this year. It's lived a good life with 76 million consoles sold, but sales of the Kinect motion control sensor have slowed.

With the possible PS4 announcement looming, a few launch titles may have leaked

Developers behind signature Sony games like MotorStorm, Killzone, and LittleBigPlanet are teasing PS4 games.

Punk lives on: Suda 51 says he agreed to sell his studio so he could get back to creating

Grasshopper Manufacture surprised the industry by selling to GungHo Online Entertainment, but the independent studio did it so it could make more games like No More Heroes.

Skylanders series hits $1 billion in sales, but Activision must remember past mistakes

With two games, myriad mobile apps, and over 100 million action figures sold, the Skylanders series has become Activision's latest billion dollar franchise.

The gaming landscape is changing as digital sales are up while physical sales are down

NPD Group reported sales data for all game software, both digital and physical, in 2012. Digital isn't growing as quickly as physical game sales are declining.

Crysis 4 may be free as Crytek claims its games will all be free-to-play in the future

Crytek's pragmatic and outspoken CEO Cevat Yerli says that its Warface and not Crysis 3 that foretells the fully free-to-play future of his expanding company.
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Jetsetter: Wii U game sales in the UK drop to 34,000 for the whole month of January

This week in Jetsetter: More international delays for the PlayStation 4, an chat with Poland's BlooBer, a sequel for one of Poland's national icons, and sad Wii U sales.

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate’s segregated online multiplayer could set a dangerous precedent for the Wii U

“Americans will Americans and Europeans with Europeans.” Capcom won't let Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate players around the world play together on Nintendo Wii U.

Infinity Blade: Dungeons put on hold as Epic Games shutters Impossible Studios

In August, Epic Games was the savior of Impossible Studios. Now Epic has closed the studio and halted development of its game Infinity Blade: Dungeons

Rayman Legends, Ninja Gaiden 3, and the troubling exodus of Nintendo’s Wii U exclusives

In the span of a single week, Nintendo lost two exclusive games for the Wii U. Rayman Legends and Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge will both jump to the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Can EA’s Origin succeed on Mac where Steam hasn’t?

Electronic Arts' Origin hasn't grown to a point where it can challenge Valve's Steam. Will that change now that Origin's available on Mac desk and laptops?

Bungie’s Destiny “not included” in 2013 according to Activision Blizzard brass

Many details about Bungie's long-awaited follow up to the Halo series came out in 2012, but it appears that Destiny will miss its proposed 2013 release date.

Fox takes another shot at a Hitman movie with ‘Agent 47’ starring Paul Walker

Fox International Pictures is returning to the critically panned, commercially successful Hitman movie series that started in 2007 with a new reboot called Agent 47.

Kickstarter sensation Double Fine Adventure will be an OUYA exclusive on consoles

Double Fine raised more than $3 million for Double Fine Adventure in 2012. OUYA, another Kickstarter star, be the only game console to host the game this year.

OUYA 2 in 2014, OUYA 3 in 2015: Android game console will follow the mobile lifecycle

68,000 people have already purchased an OUYA game console. Those customers should keep $100 free for next year too: There will be a new OUYA every year..