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Zynga has countered a copyright-infringement lawsuit from Electronic Arts with its own allegations that EA sought a potentially illegal agreement to avoid poaching each others' employees.

'Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate' will launch on both Wii U and 3DS, giving us one more reason to be excited about the next-gen Nintendo console.

Nintendo's upcoming Wii U gaming console will start at $300 and go on sale in the U.S. on Nov. 18, in time for the holidays, the company said Thursday. A "deluxe" version will sell for $350. It will be black instead of white and include extra features such as more memory, a charging stand and the game "Nintendo Land."

Virtual reality goggles, Google Glasses, Valve's wearable computing crusade, and now a patent discovered that shows Microsoft working on the next level of Kinect technology: turning your room into a game environment through 3D projection. Virtual reality gaming is just around the corner, it appears.

Everyone knows Hollywood (with the exception of Clint Eastwood) loves President Barack Obama, but a new online gamer poll shows that the videogame industry is widely in favor of another four years of Obama. According to a poll of online gamers through Nexon America’s MapleStory free-to-play game, an overwhelming 80 percent of participants preferred President Barack Obama to Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

Video Diablo creator David Brevik stirred up quite a storm the other day with comments the former Blizzard North designer made about Diablo III. While his criticism of the game was fairly mild, the response from current Diablo team members was harsh.

According to an anonymous source at Ars Technica, long-running Nintendo Power Magazine is ceasing publication. Now-deleted Tweets from members of the Nintendo Power staff seem to confirm this, though no official statement from the magazine has been posted.

Hundreds of videogames are being unveiled during the annual Gamescon festival in Cologne, Germany, but we take a look at five in particular that should be popular with diehard players.

There’s a rather interesting article over on Gamasutra today which points out the inescapable fact that for all its record setting at launch, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will likely never catch Call of Duty: Black Ops in lifetime sales. With only a few months until Black Ops 2, Modern Warfare 3 is still 2.7M copies behind the original game, a gap it will likely not close as both continue to sell copies.

We’ve yet to even see the machines that will most likely play this game, but Lucasarts has just given us the first public gameplay trailer from its upcoming mature-themed Star Wars 1313. It’s doing a pretty good job justifying the likelihood of next-gen hardware, because this trailer is looking very, very good.