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Today at E3, Samsung announced that it will be teaming up with Gaikai to launch its own U.S. cloud gaming service on Samsung smart TVs. The service, called Samsung Cloud Gaming, will be available to people who own a 2012 Samsung LED 7000 series or better smart TV, and offers users the chance to try games before they buy them. Samsung ... Read More

Nintendo confirmed today a revised Wii U controller for its new console. As previously detailed, the controller has analog sticks. The company confirmed the controller during a pre-recorded broadcast this afternoon. All previous Wii controllers are compatible with Wii U. Nintendo said its E3 2012 press conference will focus mostly on software. Stay tuned for more Wii U news throughout the week. ... Read More

Apple CEO Tim Cook recently shot down earlier talk that the company is interested in a foray into the home console business. Speaking to reporters at the D10 conference, Cook said, "I'm not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today, and things in the future will ... Read More

Microsoft is making some pretty impressive claims about the Xbox 360, Kinect, and the system's place in the console market. According to Official Microsoft Blog chief marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi, since its launch there have been 67 million Xbox 360 consoles sold worldwide at a total profit to Microsoft of $56 billion. He says this means that it owns 47 percent of the ... Read More

Epic Games has announced it has won the on-going lawsuit between it and Silicon Knights and was awarded $4.45 million. Silicon Knights first filed a lawsuit against Epic Games in 2007 over the licensing of the Unreal Engine 3 engine for Too Human. Silicon Knights claimed the game engine they received was faulty and accused Epic of using licensee fees to develop the ... Read More

The 2K Marin-developed XCOM shooter has been delayed another whole year. The game isn't scheduled to ship until April 2013 at the earliest. Take-Two announced today XCOM was pushed back into the company's 2014 fiscal year, which begins on April 1, 2013 and ends March 31, 2014. A company spokesperson was unable to provide more detail behind the game's constant delays. The publisher announced ... Read More

Sony held the Sony Ericsson's MWC 2011 press event today, where they finally revealed the long-rumored PlayStation-inspired phone. Labeled the Xperia Play, the device utilizes Google's Android Gingerbread platform, is "PlayStation certified," and is on the Verizon Network. "This Spring, expect to see a lot of people with their heads down and thumbs up," said Sony Ericsson's marketing head for North ... Read More

After four months of convincing, total, comical leaks -- Engadget has one of the damn things -- Sony Ericsson has officially unveiled the Xperia Play, the Android handset commonly referred to as the "PlayStation Phone." Actually, even this official reveal isn't a full release: Sony merely posted an announcement on Facebook, with that horrifying commercial (after the break) and the news that we'll find out more next Sunday, ... Read More

MCV has reported that MTV Games has officially closed its doors. The site reports that MTV Games' international office was closed on Wednesday and "only a handful of financial staff remain in the New York office to collect or reconcile any outstanding receivables." The news comes in the wake of the recent sale of Rock Band and Dance Central developer Harmonix. MTV Games parent company ... Read More

GameFly, the by-mail gaming rental service, will expand its operations this spring with a new distribution center in Seattle. A company representative informed Joystiq that the new location will be in addition to those already established in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Tampa and Austin. The company is currently going through the (arduously) long process of going public. We kinda miss the old days ... Read More