Nintendo DS Sales Sink by Half, Intensify Quarterly Loss

It was inevitable: Nintendo's reporting a substantial loss as sales of its DS gaming handheld fell last quarter, leading the company to a quarterly net loss for the first time in two years.

Saling The World: Starcraft II Leads Multiplatform Charts in U.S. and UK

Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from July 29th, 2010, find Starcraft II heading cross-platform sales in the United States and Europe, while Capcom's Sengoku Basara 3 comes out on top in ...

Video games - The year ahead

To everyone who got a new game console at Christmas, welcome. There's never been a better time to jump into gaming's next generation.

Japanese Tale With Western Flourishes

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, a role-playing game for the Nintendo DS, features both Western and Japanese flavors.

NEWS: Sakaguchi on Working with Nintendo on Last Story

In his online blog, Hironobu Sakaguchi posts about his visit to Nintendo in Kyoto. In his latest entry on the development of Last Story, Hironobu Sakaguchi talks about a four-day training camp held at Nintendo's old office buildings in Kyoto. He writes of nostalgic feelings returning to the company's offices after 20 years have passed (his early days in game design were sometimes spent there ...

Video game store to open in Woodstock

Tony Falco has been a gamer ever since his mom bought him a Nintendo Entertainment System when he was 4 years old. Later this summer, he will open a new and used video game store in Woodstock.