Speaking to Reuters, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata revealed that the Wii sold 800,000 during the week of Black Friday in the US. This was more than double the amount sold during the same week in 2007 and the most for any piece of hardware in history!!

The game does some things very well. Wanted: Weapons of Fate has pretty graphics, easy to understand controls, and difficulty levels with great titles, ("Pussy" instead of "Beginner" was my favorite). It also extends the storyline of the film instead of just rehashing the movie, which is a plus.

No matter how many monsters stand between our hero and the captured princess, there is one thing we grow to rely on: our trusty sword. More then just a piece of flimsy steel, it is through this blade that our protagonist can carve his/her niche in to the annuls of history.

The United States Army has long used video games for training and recruitment, but now the military is taking its first steps into in-house game development. But where the Army sees the future of soldiering, critics see an offensive waste of taxpayer money. Ars investigates.

How can you measure player reaction to games? Using games from Half-Life 2 through Gears Of War, this article shows how tech company Emsense uses brainwaves, heart activity, and even blinking to estimate engagement. This helps to understand exactly what defines the successful modern, next-gen shooter title.

As everybody with a brain knows, PETA is an insane organization full of insane people with an insane agenda. However, they do love their videogames, so that makes them alright by us. The animal rights group has taken a significant interest in gaming lately, following its self-publicized Sega ad petition and spat with Cooking Mama.

After a day of dirty diapers and "Dora the Explorer," of laundry and homework time, when her four kids are finally asleep, Sarah Ninesling begins roaming the ruins of a post-apocalyptic Washington, D.C., fighting mutants to help save the survivors of a nuclear war.

When Harmonix promised at E3 that 500 songs would be in Rock Band by the end of 2008, that seemed an awfully ambitious number. But over the past few months the DLC release schedule has been going nuts, including many full-album releases.

Game developers are likely to take full advantage of high-capacity new Blu-ray discs. Pioneer says the development plans are to create these super read-only discs in 2008-2010, rewritable discs in 2010-2012, and 1 TB discs in 2013.