When millions of people around the world sign on to play a brand new game, technical problems are an inevitability. Call of Duty: Black Ops II is experiencing a handful of technical problems on the PlayStation 3 in its first week.
Just in time for the holidays, Sony is updating the PS Vita handheld with support for its PlayStation Plus subscription service. Players will get access to a slate of critically acclaimed games for an annual fee, but will that entire people to actually but the console?
In Jetsetter for the week ending November 3rd, we take a look at Britain and Japan. The BBC and EA got in a tiff over FIFA 13, Q-Games moved its PixelJunk series from PlayStation to PC, and cult developer Treasure comes to Nintendo 3DS.
Roger Avary's been away from movie making for more than five years, but the Pulp Fiction co-writer is returning to theaters with B.J.Blazkowicz in tow. His next project will be a movie adaptation of the Wolfenstein series.
Ubisoft has already bet big on Nintendo's Wii U, developing exclusives for the console like Rayman Legends and ZombiU alongside high profile ports like Assassin's Creed III. GameStop ads suggest Splinter Cell: Blacklist is coming to Wii U next.
In Jetsetter for the week ending Oct. 27, FIFA players jockey to become replace the Dunbarton Sons football team manager spot in Scotland, Italy's first video game museum opens in Rome, and Indiagames loses its chief after Disney acquisition.
Rockstar Games piles on the nostalgia while whetting appetites for the new. The studio announced a 10th anniversary release of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for Android and IOS before teasing info about Grand Theft Auto 5.
The Nintendo Wii U will be a hot commodity this holiday season, not just because it's the first new home console from the company in six years, but because there won't be very many of them to go around.
The Windows 8 Store's guidelines prevent UK video game publishers from selling many of their most popular games through Microsoft's new service. On the new operating system's launch day, Microsoft said it would ease ratings restrictions, but it may be some time before changes take effect.
Four years after it was optioned and one year after plot details were first discussed, the Mass Effect movie has a new writer. Its new scribe, though, has never has a script produced. How will he change the BioWare adaptation?
Nintendo revealed comprehensive lists of the best-selling video games of 2012 to date, shedding significant light on player tastes around the world. What games will publishers be investing in based on current trends?
Capcom takes a page from the BioWare play book with its upcoming patch for Resident Evil 6. Out in December, the update looks to fix major complaints about how the game is played.
Microsoft completed its week long roll out of the new Xbox 360 dashboard on Tuesday, preparing its console business for the Friday release of Windows 8. Changes to the interface might not please users, though.
In the past, re-releasing a game as a digital download was simple since the original release was only available as an out of print disc or cartridge. Doom 3: BFG Edition demonstrates that the business is trickier when a game was released digitally first.
A year and a half after hackers breached Sony security gaining access to user information for 69 million PlayStation Network users, a class action lawsuit against the company has been dismissed by a California judge.
What happens when a company puts too much stock in chasing the best user metrics in video games and trying appeal to the biggest audience possible? You get a faded company creative giant like Capcom.
Straight Right, the Australian studio hard at work converting BioWare's Mass Effect 3 for the Nintendo Wii U, is working on another port of a triple-A franchise for Nintendo's new tablet controller console. This time, for Square-Enix.
No game is more missed in Sony's holiday line up than Naughty Dog's promising survival drama The Last of Us. That game's deeply personal experiences can be shared though, as a Naughty Dog job listing suggests a co-op mode is coming.
Electronic Arts' Origin has played second fiddle to Valve's Steam since it opened last year, with an audience of just 11 million members compared to 35 million. The publisher got an unexpected PR windfall over the weekend when it accidentally gave away unlimited free credit.
The first Borderlands 2 DLC campaign, Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty, gives players a host of new allies, enemies and quests to enjoy in the shooting dungeon crawler, but a demo made it feel more like a Borderlands B-side than a must play.
In Jetsetter for the week ending October 13th, Valve starts supporting the Brazilian Real on Steam, Black creator Stuart Black opens a new studio, and Tetsuya Nomura claims that Square-Enix's studio in Japan has already finished work on Lightning Returns.
Mass Effect 3: Omega, the latest downloadable expansion for BioWare's successful science fiction epic, will be out at the end of November alongside the Trilogy and Wii U editions of the game. It will be the longest DLC yet, but it will also be the most expensive.