Video games aren’t just for playing. More and more, they’re Hollywood’s attempt to lure folks off their sofas and into movie theaters. The box-office success of movie versions of controversial fighting game “Mortal Kombat” (1995), treasure- hunting adventure “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” (2001) and ...

The biggest announcement at the four-day Tokyo Game Show 2008 (Oct. 9-12) at Makuhari Messe convetion center in Chiba Prefecture was not for a Japanese title and not by a Japanese company. On the first of the two press days, Microsoft exec John Schappert ...

Imagine your typical video gamer. Male, aged 18-35, right? A businesswoman in her early 20s doesn’t exactly fit the stereotype — but that’s the untapped market that game-makers are now going after. At Tokyo Game Show at the end of September, a handful of ...

This year’s Tokyo Game Show was supposed to be bigger, but that doesn’t mean the industry event was better. It was expanded from three days (one press, two public days) to four days (two press, two public) as Sony, Microsoft and third-party video game ...