video game industry

Despite a few flops along the way, Nintendo has been one of the most successful players in the video game industry since the early 1980s.

But how much do you know about Nintendo?

Did you know it’s over 100 years old? Do you know which American sports team it owns? Did you know LEGO once took legal action against it?

It's not every day you get two diametrically opposed views on DRM from two high profile companies in the video game industry, yet that is what happened recently.

Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aime really has a way about trying to suggest that perfectly reasonable and consumer-friendly market developments portend the end of video gaming.

The modern video game industry is singularly obsessed with bringing the physical user ever closer to the virtual world, a phenomenon best exemplified by the introduction of frictionless interfaces like Kinect.

It's not very long since Ignacio Bazan Lazcano has entered the video game industry but when you see his work, you will be amazed to see his talent.

Ignacio lives in the beautiful city of Buenos Aires in Argentina and is working as an illustrator and concept artist.

Enjoy his ravishing work.

We were recently talking about how so many in the video game industry seem so antagonistic to the used video game market, despite widespread evidence that a healthy secondary market helps the primary market in a variety of ways.

Reader Johnny points us to the news that retailing giant Ikea is now planning to experiment with used goods sales itself via a website in Sweden.

In the past, we've seen the movie industry attack "fansub" efforts for trying to translate movies into other languages.

But, in the video game industry, we did see glimmers of hope when a publisher allowed fansubbers to complete their version of the translation and compete side-by-side with the commercial translated version in the marketplace.

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