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GameStop shares are down nearly 5% on Thursday amid calls to restrict the sales of violent video games. The stock still looks good, though, with a healthy dividend yield of 3.6% and a long-term earnings growth projection of 9.3%.

It's the little things like better graphics and the touch-screen controller that make Skylanders Giants on Wii U the best version.

Angry Birds is probably pretty low on the list of video games people want to see turned into a movie, but that's not stopping Rovio Entertainment, the company behind the popular video game, from attempting to do so.

Dark Souls 2 will be helmed by new game directors who hint at a different approach. What does new direction for the game mean for fans?

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 sales were lower in the game's first week than Modern Warfare 3, but it's too early to worry about gamer fatigue.

The Wii U has been written off as under-powered and not truly "next-gen" but critics fail to take into account the broader Nintendo strategy.

It’s a question many gamers have been asking for almost a decade now. Why has no one else tried to make a Super Smash Bros. game? The all-star Nintendo brawler has been one of the most played and best loved games across its last three consoles, the N64, the Gamecube and the Wii. Its focus on chaotic multiplayer, offscreen kills and the elimination of health bars looked like it was going to reinvent the entire fighting genre.

One reason some people waited in long lines to be the first to get the new Nintendo Wii U console has nothing to do with the games. With Wii U devices all but guaranteed to be sold out at retailers around the world this Christmas, some buyers immediately put their new consoles on Ebay. Wii Us are already selling for over $500 on the site. There were well over 2,500 consoles listed on the world’s largest auction site just hours after it went on sale on November 18 at the Nintendo World store in New York City and around the globe.

Nintendo's Wii U hits stores this weekend, testing the videogame giant's strategy of pushing pricey hardware in a videogame market increasingly geared toward mobile gadgets.

Activision Blizzard's said the newest title in its popular Call of Duty franchise generated more than $500 million in worldwide retail sales in the first 24 hours of its release... Sales of "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" topped last year's launch of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3," which made $400 million in sales in North America and the U.K. in the first 24 hours.