Related topics: xbox 360 · playstation 3 · game · video game · iphone

Microsoft to launch Kinect in Japan in November

Microsoft's long-awaited Kinect motion-sensing system for the Xbox 360 videogame console will hit the Japanese market in November, the company said Wednesday, as competition in the sector heats up.

China's Lenovo to launch game console

China's IT giant Lenovo has said it will launch a video games console this year to vie with Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's XBox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 in the booming motion-gaming market.

Karaoke kings

Karaoke Revolution, a hugely popular video game for Playstation, X-Box and Wii, used new tools recently developed by European research to create phenomenal animations that would otherwise have been nearly impossible. Fans ...

June video game sales decline again, NPD says

(AP) -- Summer doldrums weighed on the video game industry in June, with U.S. retail sales of hardware, software and accessories down 6 percent from a year earlier, to $1.1 billion.

US videogame sales slip in May: NPD

US videogame sales slid anew in May with lower console prices proving a boon to buyers but eating into industry revenue.

The challenges of learning to use new products

Consumers learn how to use new products best if they get a chance to try them out repeatedly, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Nintendo slashes price of its DS consoles in Japan

Nintendo on Wednesday said it would slash the price of its portable DS game consoles by 20 percent in Japan for the first time in order to revive flagging demand for its products.

page 18 from 28