UK gamers are voting with their wallets like never before, with sales at record highs following record periods in 2007 and previous years. According to data released today by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) and compiled by Chart-Track, the UK games industry racked up a total of £418.4 million ($828.9 million) in […]

Rocky and Bullwinkle first had their antics aired across American airwaves back in 1959. Since then, their slapstick sensibilities and doofy encounters with odd antagonists have been captured in movies, books, video games, and all manner of cross-media connections. Few, if any, of these crossovers have lived up to the once-rich experience many adults had […]

All eyes are on next week’s launch of the much-anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV from Rockstar Games, but the developer is already looking forward to the next big sequel in another of its well-known franchises. Rockstar Games announced today the release dates for Midnight Club: Los Angeles on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, as […]

It doesn’t take much for a game to warrant a big-screen adaptation these days, as evidenced by such produced and proposed films as Painkiller, Bloodrayne, and Jagged Alliance. So with deals in place for so many gaming properties, why hasn’t there been more speculation about a movie for one of the industry’s most successful–and cinematic–properties, […]

As is traditional for this time of year, April has been a fairly quiet month as far as high-profile releases go. However, next week’s release of Mario Kart Wii and Grand Theft Auto IV will all but ensure that the month will continue the year’s trend of double-digit software sales growth, and this week offers […]