Best Buy is hosting a midnight sale for last-minute holiday shopping, but some consumers are complaining their Black Friday orders are still unfulfilled, having been cancelled or still never shipped out just days before Christmas.
After years of speculation fueled by confusion, Nintendo has finally released the official timeline for The Legend of Zelda video game, 25 years after the series first began in a commerative art book, Hyrule Historia.
2012 looks to be a big year for gadgets, as Apple, Google, Microsoft and others are all expected to debut dozens of new devices that push the limits of technology. Here are the release dates for several tablet computers and smartphones coming next year.
Japanese electronics giant Sony has triggered a mania among gamers in Japan by releasing Sony PlayStation Vita (PS Vita) on Dec. 17.
The PS Vita was released in Japan on Dec. 17, and has already sold more than a quarter million units in the first two days available.
Skype will offer free Wi-Fi at over 50 airports across the U.S. this holiday season.
Sony is launching Vita in Japan on Saturday, hoping the company's first new handheld video game system in seven years will get the company's game business going again now that many consumers have turned to Apple's iPhone, the world's bestselling smartphone, for entertainment.
Into just his fourth month as head of Sony's videogames unit, Welshman Andrew House has to plot a much-needed success story for the new PlayStation Vita handheld games device, negotiating a minefield of consumer gloom and competition from smartphones and tablet PCs such as Apple Inc's iPhone and iPad.
Sony Corp said it was keeping to its target to sell 15 million PlayStation 3 game machines in the year to end-March, even as a long-running debt crisis grips Europe, one of the Japanese electronics group's most important markets.
Storybrooke's sheriff is no more, it seems.
Good news to smartphones and tablet users who crave for gaming without compromising on splendid graphics - OnLive, a Silicon Valley-based gaming service, has announced the launch of an application (app) which enables users of mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad and Android-based smartphones and tablets, including Amazon's Kindle Fire, to enjoy console-class gaming.
Nintendo Co Ltd on Thursday denied a report that Shigeru Miyamoto, widely seen as the world's most influential games designer, would step down from his current position and take a smaller role in the company.
THQ Inc cut its fiscal third-quarter sales forecast by 25 percent as the game maker said one of its products was not selling as well as expected, and its shares fell in after-hours trading.
Sales of Nintendo Co Ltd's 3DS games device will hit 3 million units in the Japanese market within days, but consumers in the U.S. and Europe seem to be delaying their holiday season shopping due to poor economic conditions, the company said.
American video games developer, Epic Games, is reportedly set to make a big announcement this weekend, at the Spike Video Games Award (VGA), which will honor the best games in 2011.
The European Commission joined forces with major technology firms including Apple, Facebook and Google on Thursday to improve the protection of children online.
After a strong Black Friday showing, Nintendo now has to focus on maintaining the momentum for its products over the next five weeks of the crucial holiday season, the company's U.S. president told the Reuters Global Media Summit on Tuesday.
Nintendo sold more Wiiconsoles on Black Friday than ever before, thanks to deep discounts by the national chain Wal-Mart.
Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Bobby Kotick told Reuters that stores may face a shortage of its new children's game this holiday season and tried to cast doubt on a rival's upcoming game that analysts say could eat into Activision's user base.
People looking for Activision Blizzard's (ATVI.O) new children's game Skylanders this holiday season may be out of luck after the game sold better than expected, the video game maker's top executive said on Monday.
Several top retailers such as Amazon.com, Best Buy, Target, and Wal-Mart are gearing up for Cyber Monday with deals and discounts. Toys R Us plans an extension of Cyber Monday -- Cyber Week -- to boost sales, with free shipping as one draw.
Following are the top Black Friday deals offered by various leading retailers on video games and consoles.
