Xbox co-creator brings together Atari ‘dream team’ for mobile gaming startup

A new mobile gaming startup that’s yet to release a single game isn’t the sort of thing we’d normally cover ’round here, but the story behind Los Angeles-based Innovative Leisure is anything but ordinary.

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Wii U controller to pack NFC, says Iwata, create new gameplay options

Aching for more details on Nintendo’s elusive Wii U console?

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Next Xbox console to be six times more powerful, headed for fall 2013 release?

Xbox 720, Xbox Loop — whatever Microsoft ends up calling it, that hot rod of a console looks to be on deck for a late fall 2013 release. According to IGN’s sources, this successor to the Redmond gaming throne is purported to pack a GPU based on AMD’s 6000 series of chips and will boast silicon circuitry that catapults its performance past Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U by 20 percent

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Video game sales drop 21 percent in US as kids remember there’s an outdoors

Normally the holidays are good to video game sales.

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Video game sales drop 21 percent in US as kids remember there’s an outdoors

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