Lauren Goode in News on March 9 at 10:00 am PT
The videogame industry continues to see year-over-year declines, according to the latest NPD data.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 12 at 5:57 pm PT
Despite sales declines bringing down the overall game industry last year, Microsoft dominated the market, with the Xbox capturing nearly half of all consumer spending from physical sales.
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Lauren Goode in News on December 20, 2011 at 8:28 pm PT
Sony
issued an apologetic statement and posted a system update on Monday, after complaints emerged about its new handheld device, the Sony PlayStation Vita. The portable gaming system
launched in Japan this past weekend; 321,400 units were sold in two days. Some users are
reporting that the Vita has been freezing and crashing in early use of the device.
Lauren Goode in Media on December 1, 2011 at 1:00 pm PT
Nintendo is hoping more Mario — and pretty colors — will help the gaming giant’s 3-D device.
Kara Swisher in News on February 21, 2011 at 12:16 am PT
Kno–the much-funded and high-profile Silicon Valley start-up aimed at making tablet computers focused at students–is considering selling off the entire hardware part of the business and is in talks with two major consumer electronics manufacturers to do so, according to sources close to the situation.
But, if a deal is struck, the move would be a dramatic shift for the company, which has yet to ship significant numbers of the touchscreen device as it has long touted.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 15, 2011 at 4:24 pm PT
A pad to charge all your mobile devices sounds like a great idea, and yet most people are still fumbling with jumbles of power cords. Katie looks at the different technologies involved and why charging pads aren’t more commonplace.
John Paczkowski in News on January 27, 2011 at 7:03 am PT
Sony stepped up its game in the mobile gaming market this morning by uncrating the Next Generation Portable, the successor to the dusty PlayStation Portable. A radical redesign of the PSP, the device promises a PlayStation 3-level gaming experience in a handheld form factor.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 19, 2011 at 8:56 am PT
Nintendo announced the pricing and release date today for the 3DS, which it hopes will rejuvenate sales as its other hardware platforms start aging.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 10, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Most people expect the Verizon iPhone to be pretty similar to the current iPhone 4 sold by AT&T–but, even if that is the case, it may differ in some important ways.
In addition to a better antenna, you could see it come in colors or even perform tricks its AT&T cousin cannot.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 29, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT
Walt looks at the products and competitive positions of key contenders as they enter a new year.
