After operating without fanfare for several months, development studio PushButton Labs has formally announced its existence and stated its plans to target “emerging consumer markets” with web-driven games and other software. The Eugene, Oregon-based studio was established by GarageGames co-founders…

Sales of video game hardware held steady in Japan for the week ended May 24, as the Nintendo Wii managed to edge out PlayStation 3 for the third week in a row, capturing the top home console slot. But it…

In earlier years the activists, educators, researchers and nonprofits that attended the annual Games For Change event had a tendency to dismiss the commercial games space as less useful to their cause. But this year, all of the attendees interested…

With E3 events beginning next week, video game analysts have weighed in on what to expect from the re-revamped expo, which takes place in Los Angeles. Analyst Doug Creutz with Cowen and Company expressed his belief in widely-circulating rumors that…

Games need difficult, negative or uncomfortable experiences to create the kind of empathy and understanding necessary for social change. So suggests researcher Sam Gilbert of the MacArthur-funded GoodPlay Project, which explores the intersection of ethics and online worlds, virtual spaces…

Electronic Arts is dipping its toes further into the emerging web-based gaming model with Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online, a 3D golf sim streamed directly to gamers’ web browsers. By beginning to break into the web-gaming market, EA is making…

The Infogrames management team today made a significant change, as the company said that Atari president Phil Harrison, previously of Sony Computer Entertainment, would be stepping down from his position, as business operations shift to the U.S. Harrison will still…

[At the Gamasutra-attended 2009 Games For Change event in New York, venerated academics Henry Jenkins and James Gee talked on how games for learning and social change' potential lies in the communities they can create and inspire.] Games and education…

4mm Games, the recently-revealed studio formed in part by Rockstar Games co-founders, has announced Def Jam Rapstar, a hip-hop-based music game. While details and screenshots are still under wraps until E3 next week in Los Angeles, video appearing on consumer…

Noby Noby/Katamari creator Keita Takahashi has been discussing the rise of user-created content in games like LittleBigPlanet, praising it but cautioning on players’ levels that copy other games as “not really… creation.” The comments came as part of a wider…