Developer: iPhone can rival Nintendo DS, Sony PSP for games

Peter Cohen talks to Ngmoco, a company founded by two Electronic Arts veterans who see the iPhone as hotbed for game development.

New Nintendo DS portable will come with camera

Nintendo's hit DS portable machine will come with a digital camera that will allow players to mix images, scribble on photos and create new faces, the Japanese game maker said Thursday.

July NPD Sales Numbers Fire, Industry Volleys

July video game sales leapt an appreciable 28 percent over last year, the 360 and PS3 finished in a dead heat, and Nintendo creamed everyone, as usual. Overall video game sales were up an astonishing 35 percent year-to-date, prophesying...

TUAW Hands-On: Square Enix's Song Summoner for the iPod

Square Enix dropped a huge bomb at E3 a few weeks ago with the fact that their latest Final Fantasy title, number 13, was coming to Microsoft's Xbox 360. But a week before, they dropped another piece of surprise news on iPod owners: that they had released a game for the music player, and that not only was it an RPG, but it was actually a tactical RPG that used the iPod's own songs as characters.If you're a Squeenix fanboy, your mind is probably just blown by the idea, and as we reported last time, our Nintendo-biased friends were thrilled to hear about the game. But how does it actually play -- is it worth picking up if you're not a Square fan, and/or you just want to hear music on your iPod?Short answer: Probably not. While Square Enix's Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes is a pretty amazing game for the iPod, the iPod is meant to be a music player, not a game platform, and a few hardware drawbacks keep Song Summoner from shining as a game just for iPod owners. Square fans will enjoy it very much, RPG gamers will probably get their money's worth (the game is only $5, cheap by any estimation), but anyone looking for a pick-up-and-play iPod game will likely get mired in the slow pace.Continue reading TUAW Hands-On: Square Enix's Song Summoner for the iPodPermalink | Email this | Comments

At E3, video games shift their aim to casual players (USATODAY.com)

USATODAY.com - This year's downscaled E3 video game expo drew about 4,500 gamemakers, analysts, retailers and journalists to L.A. last week - less than a tenth of E3's size two years ago - even as the industry grew from $10.5 billion in 2005 to $18 billion in 2007.

September NPD numbers: Star Wars trumps flagging US economy

The console and software sales information for September is in, and the results are unspectacular: the Wii is huge, Xbox 360 sees a boost, and the PS3 is expensive. Read More...