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An industry study conducted on the worldwide video game industry has predicted that the video game boom will continue through to 2012, with total sales soaring to $68.4 billion by 2012. The outlook isn't as rosy for PC gaming, which is projected to drop by 1.2 percent during the same period.Read More...

New Mexico's recent failed attempt to tax video games in an attempt to get children to spend more time outside completely missed the point. Gaming can help any local economy, and the gaming industry is certainly not the bogeyman it's being made out to be by critics. Read More...

Nintendo seems to be on a losing streak with its fight against patent-holder (and apparent one-man shop) Anascape. With Anascape's patents being so broad, without any actual products on the market, this is a case every one in the gaming industry needs to be watching. Read More...

A new report about the used game market indicates that growth is mimicking that of the industry as a whole. GameStop breathes a sigh of relief. Read More...

The intellectual property morass doesn't just bog down the software and media industries. A panel formed by the McGill University Law School has spent seven years looking at the role of IP in the biotech industry, and finds many of the same problems occur there.Read More...

In-game advertising is becoming an increasingly important aspect of the game industry, and Sony has signed a contract with IGA Worldwide to combat Microsoft and Massive. Read More...

Yahoo has introduced BOSS, a Build Your Own Search Service platform for third parties to integrate their own data and services with Yahoo's search index, and even re-rank the results. It's a brave new world for extensible search, but could also be interpreted as a surrender on innovation from Yahoo.Read More...

Making the battle to keep violent games out of the hands of children a legal one has never been successful in the US courts. Tomorrow, Massachusetts may become the next state to pass unconstitutional video game legislation.Read More...

After 12 years and 12 iterations, game industry titan Electronic Arts has eliminated the PC as a platform carrying the company's biggest franchise, Madden. It's a disappointing development for PC gamers.Read More...