According to recent findings from Top Global Markets, an integrated monthly report from leading providers of consumer and retail information in the video games industry, The NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track Limited and Enterbrain, Inc., combined video game software unit sales across the world’s three largest games markets experienced growth of 1 percent during third-quarter 2008 (July-September).

There are millions of sites available today that entice you to download full PC games for free. The first question that comes to mind is how safe are these sites for downloading.

It's hard to believe this new enhancement with Nintendo's Wii. A new Wii Chat Channel is coming to the Nintendo Wii in December, Nintendo announced today.

As part of yesterday's in-depth analysis of new Nintendo-published graphs on the state of the market, Gamasutra has calculated the attach rate (also known as 'tie ratios' -- the number of games sold per console) for both first and third-party titles on Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360.

A teenage boy who ran away from home last month after his Xbox video game was confiscated has been found dead in Canada.

How do you like to spend your days? In Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City for Wii, you’ll find plenty of ways to while away the hours no matter what pastimes you most enjoy. Whether you just want to relax and explore the town you have created or hop on a bus and head to the city, Animal Crossing invites you to live life at your own pace.

As if you expected any less, Nintendo’s new DSi portable gaming console flew off shelves as Japanese consumers braved both Godzilla and a bad economy to get their hands on one.

The only thing more satisfying that brawling in Super Smash Bros. Brawl is emerging victorious when the dust has settled.

The hype is on. Epic Studios is scheduled to release Gears of War 2 later this week with all the hoopla normally reserved for a major movie release. Gamers are gearing up for the worldwide sequel to the award winning Xbox 360 game.

The Beatles are a stranger to Apple and iTunes, but apparently not so to MTV and their video game subsidiary Harmonix (Rock Band). A deal between the parties was announced on Thursday morning by MTV and the band's own Apple Corps Ltd.

Virtual worlds had led to actual crimes before. There was a romance in Second Life that led to a real-world attempted kidnapping. And there was a clan feud in a MMOPRG that led to real murder. What we have here is a "virtual murder," but one that's going to lead to some real jail time.

Yep, it's time for Nintendo's Fall Conference 2008, their answer to the Tokyo Gaming Show, which they've always eschewed. And with rumors running rampant about a new Nintendo DS, what is it they revealed?