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The epic conclusion to Lightning's saga launched in Japan last week and the first week sales are in. The results are disastrous, showing another 50% drop from the already low launch sales of previous entry.

Wow, I never gave too much thought to how the world must look with the game’s angled top-down perspective.

Girl, you must be a terminology because you are the study of nomenclature.

"I do feel like we never got a chance to have a rational conversation about what we were trying to do," Penello told Engadget.

Square Enix's new plan: Eidos = online games; Japan = smartphone games.

Three days ago, Steam users were surprised to discover a curious entry in among Valve's annual Halloween sale: Typing of the Dead: Overkill, a remake of Sega's cult classic combination zombie shooter and typing tutorial.

The Vanamo Online Game Museum is a free, digital archive of video game history made through high quality pictures and articles.

Full disclosure: Mister Chief is a terrible idea that snowballed out of control, and now we’re stuck with it, like the internal combustion engine or Justin Bieber.

In an effort to bolster the quality of the Final Fantasy series going forward, Square Enix has deemed it necessary to bring together some of the franchise’s top creators in what they’re calling the “Final Fantasy Committee.”

“Don’t grow up to be a games critic, Mary!” Sterling cried in mock-seriousness. “It’s all sadness and sorrow and privation. And nobody reading your work.”

I'm auctioning off this package to help raise money for an old friend of mine who has fallen terribly ill to stage 4 colon cancer.

Takin selfies before it was cool

I want to talk about the way we treat each other. I want to talk about the ways in which we’re able to stamp others with labels so that we can dismiss them.

Drag and drop the colors in each row to arrange them by hue order.

Play your favorite Wii Sports™ games on the Wii U console! With Wii Sports Club, you can now take tennis, bowling, baseball, golf, and boxing competitions online*.

Electronic Arts Inc. is turning to Andrew Wilson, the head of its sports videogame brand, as its next chief executive, signaling to investors it plans to stay the course with offering a broad range of products.

"Next week we're going to be rolling out more information about how we get there and what are the hardware opportunities we see for bringing Linux into the living room," Newell said.

River City Ransom is an irreplaceable part of our gaming history, both for fans from the beginning, and those who discovered the game later during the emulation craze.

In all that time, fan letters, support emails and interviewers have made our most frequently asked question, “Why don't you guys make more original games?”

As the classic RPG series marches on in Japan with no sign of overseas versions, fans need to face facts: Dragon Quest may be dead in America.

We're thrilled that gamers are looking forward to diving into The Elder Scrolls Online and we've been working hard to deliver the game that fans want - one that's worthy of the Elder Scrolls name. Choosing the right business model is part of that. We are going with the subscription model for ESO.

Place a fan in the middle of the area, then spawn a car. Creep your car to the edge of the fan and jump.

Microsoft is launching a new Independent Developers @ Xbox (ID@Xbox) program for developers to create and publish digital games on Xbox One.

Players control an origami man as he makes his way through a vast empty space littered with life-sized words, each one representative of the object they spell.

Ultimately, I think house rules involving cash circulation and player stubbornness regarding trades are to blame for Monopoly’s bad rep.

Imagine a film critic who refused to watch any movie over 5 years old–no, scratch that. Imagine a film director who refused to adapt any material over 5 years old.

What is being positioned as an excellent entertainment device can be just as enticing for you and your small business. In fact, it's entirely justifiable to make the Xbox One a business expense.

Your 1080p HDTV may be great for Blu-ray movies, but it sucks for SNES games. Adopting new television technology means saying goodbye to the advantages of older hardware.

“(Xbox One) is geared towards a Western lifestyle, and we’re looking at whether or not to launch it ‘as is’ in Japan,” said Higuchi.

Ryan was a good friend to all of us. It’s odd to remember that, for someone who could be so acerbic at times, and despite knowing him for almost a decade, I honestly don’t recall ever actually being mad at him.

We detail how Sony crushed Microsoft at E3 2013 and why PS4 is your next console in the new issue of Edge magazine.

Don Mattrick, the president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business — which centers on the Xbox and all the software giant’s gaming and entertainment efforts — is leaving the company, said multiple sources close to the situation.

Legacy of Kain has a convoluted history since its conceptual origins nearly twenty years ago. Considering there have only been five released games – it’s surprising that such a startlingly wide range of industry players have been involved...

Our launch titles: Earthbound, Galaga, Super Mario Bros 2, ZZT, Jagged Alliance 2.

If turn-based tactics and feudal fantasy had a lovechild, and that offspring founded a mighty century-spanning dynasty, it would be MASSIVE CHALICE.

She fired the balls up the ramp like some sort of Skee-Ball-playing trucker.

“If you’re backwards compatible, you’re really backwards,” he said.

The Xbox One doesn't have to be online all the time, but it does have to be online. Not just once in a while—once a day, according to Microsoft vice president Phil Harrison.

I am a huge believer that this is the year we put focus back on console gaming in a way it has not been for some years. To put Sony’s and Microsoft’s next consoles in the same frame as Samsung’s and Apple’s hottest products.

"We have no games in development for the Wii U currently," company spokesperson Jeff Brown told Kotaku yesterday.