Section: Video Games

Activision scores partial victory in Infinity Ward suit
Judge dismisses one of two fraud claims brought against the publisher by fired developers Jason West and Vince Zampella.  Activision Blizzard scored a minor victory today in its ongoing lawsuits with Jason West and Vince Zampella over the develo...
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Garena to host Malaysia Heroes of Newerth National Championship 2012
E-sports tournament on MOBA title to start in April; grand finals planned for December.   Get the full article at GameSpot "Garena to host Malaysia Heroes of Newerth National Championship 2012" was posted by Jon...
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pushed to summer
Valve confirms downloadable Hidden Path-developed entry in shooter series will miss its early 2012 release window.  Counter-Strike: Global Offensive missed its original beta testing window, and the shooter is similarly skipping its planned early...
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Metal Gear Solid HD Collection hits PS Vita this summer
Konami confirms seasonal release window for touch-screen-enabled compilation of Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3. Snake is sneaking onto the PlayStation Vita this summer, as Konami today confirmed that release window for Metal Gear Solid HD ...
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning US sales hit 330,000
NPD data reveals North American first-month sales of 38 Studios' new role-playing game across Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.  Yesterday, the NPD Group revealed 38 Studios' Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning to be the fourth best-selling game of Feb...
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World of Tanks developers expanding to Southeast Asia
Wargaming.net to open new offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand.  World of Tanks is now even more global, with developer and publisher Wargaming.net planning to expand its operations to Southeast Asia. ...
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Xbox 360 sells 426,000 in February
Microsoft's console makes it a full year on top of console hardware sales chart; Nintendo reveals 3DS sales of 262,000, Wii sales of 228,000.  The game industry as a whole has had a volatile year of ups and downs, but one of the few constants ha...
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Mass Effect 3 ships 3.5 million
EA confirms first-week worldwide shipment total for trilogy-capping role-playing game; developer cofounder calls it "the best game BioWare has ever made."  If Mass Effect 3 turns out to be Commander Shepard's final game outing, at least the seri...
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Next Xbox drops disc drive – Report
Source says Microsoft's forthcoming console to ditch optical drive in favor of "interchangeable solid-state card storage"; will ship in 2013.  Microsoft's next Xbox will not have a disc drive, according to a source speaking to MCV. ...
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Pursuit of AAA is a ‘cancerous growth’ – AC3 dev
Assassin's Creed 3 creative director Alex Hutchinson believes aiming for graphical fidelity and scale will make AAA games "nothing more than the last of the dinosaurs." The Assassin's Creed franchise is one of the biggest in the business both inside ...
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