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The new year is looking like a pretty good one for the Nintendo family of consoles. A few big name exclusives framed by a slate of third-party offerings are all on tap for 2013.

Gaming industry analytics firm DFC Intelligence forecasts victory for Microsoft’s Xbox over the Wii and PS3 well into the future and casts a questioning eye on the Wii U.

Several outlets are reporting that the next generation of consoles will be announced just a tad earlier than anyone might have thought.

The final episode of Playing Dead is now available and discusses part 5 of Telltale’s excellent The Walking Dead. Bonus- check out the extra episode featuring the voice of ‘Larry’, Terry McGovern.

The Skylanders franchise has officially reached half a billion in US sales and surpasses all ‘kids’ properties at the box office this past holiday season.

The publisher claims sales of the new console surpassed the Wii’s initial six week run by more than $30 million USD.

Star Wars #1 from Dark Horse Comics has sold out its first printing in just 24 hours.

Well we knew it wouldn’t be long before we saw the Steam-backed PC show up in some form or another, but it turns out Valve and hardware maker Xi3 just couldn’t wait any longer to show off Piston.

The developers behind the Android-based GameStick console must be pretty darned happy as the little controller/console has already blasted away it’s goal on the crowd funding platform kickstarter.

The company, who has breathed new life into the Adventure Game genre, would just love to work on some of the biggest IP’s around.

Another week, another Steam-box rumor (though this one sounds pretty legit) as a German gaming site is reporting that the ‘living room PC’ is soon to be announced.

Sony has officially confirmed that the last PlayStation 2 has been produced.

Yes, Lord of the Rings has proven to be pretty popular on both page and screen, but just how profitable it’s been might shock you. It’s not every day a film series eclipses the GDP of Greenland…

So, folks don’t really dig the Bioshock Infinite cover art. It’s generic they say. Well internet, now’s your chance to change it.

A console port of the hit PC game might actually still be in the cards.

Gabe Newell has basically confirmed what many thought was on the way already.