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As more time passes after the passing of Iwata-san, more and more people speculate who will take over as CEO and President of Nintendo. This choice will not be an easy one for the legendary video game company with the announcements of creating mobile gaming content as well as a …

The video game world is a little less colorful today with the passing of Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata. Iwata was battling cancer for the last year and missed the previous E3 to have a growth removed from his bile duct. Dedicated to video games and players, Iwata embodied the spirit …

Sony sees no reason to drop the price of the PS4 due to success of the console in Europe, according to SCEE President Jim Ryan. Ryan stated PS4 accounts for at least 7 out of every 10 consoles sold in the various European countries and even reaching 9 in select …

Yoichi Wada stepped down as Chairman of Square Enix to devote himself to the cloud gaming company, Shinra Technologies. Wada saw the potential of cloud-computing in gaming and established Shinra Technologies, a subsidiary of Square Enix, in 2014 to create cloud-gaming technology. Yoichi Wada has been with Square Enix since …

Bowser’s the new VP of sales at Nintendo! While this sounds like a poor internet joke, it is in fact true! Nintendo announced they hired Doug Bowser, former VP of global planning at EA. Even Nintendo couldn’t avoid the name pun, stating, “Doug Bowers Brings Decades of Experience, Not Fire …

Last Friday Sony announced that their E3 press conference begins at 6 pm on Monday, June 15th.

Sony is skipping Gamescom this year!

PlayStation is raking in the dough over at Sony. The company just released their full financial report for the past year and the Games and Network Services section, which includes PlayStation, was the top raw revenues earner. G&NS brought in $11.5 billion dollars for the 2014 fiscal year, jumping 33% …

Sony has thankfully found its PlayStation 4 exclusive hit. Superdata reported that Bloodborne has sold 155K digital copies worldwide to date. This data also suggests that Bloodborne might be the most successful game of the Dark Souls series. Within a few days the game hit the 1 million unit mark, …

Layoffs at Evolution have been confirmed by Sony. Fifty-five people are looking for a new job this week as it was confirmed that nearly half the studio was let go. This is troubling news considering Evolution’s latest DriveClub was delayed repeatedly and then had major issues upon release. This is …

The rumor mill is running high this morning in regards to Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid, and Konami. It appears that Kojima and Konami might be parting ways. This is based on some circumstantial evidence that has not been confirmed by either party, but the time is curious. …

This financial quarter is quickly coming to an end and Gamesindustry.biz released their comprehensive review of the industry’s stock holdings. Gamesindustry.biz chose to analyze the data by region and business type. Sony came out on top of Japanese platform creators, netting a 30% gain. (In case you missed it, the …

Forget console wars, a bigger indicator of console success is title sales, and currently PlayStation is edging Xbox out. Superdata, a market research company that aggregates data on games and playable media, just released a report that found players spent twice as much on PS3/PS4 games than Xbox 360/One during …