During the course of a Friday briefing for analysts in Tokyo, console-maker Nintendo's President, Satoru Iwata, said that his company had plans underway to launch its new Wii U home console in time for the 2012 year-end holiday shopping season.

According to GameSpot, Capcom has somewhat confirmed that a console game from its flagship Resident Evil franchise may apparently be on the cards later this year; with a viral marketing campaign by the publisher teasing the next episode in the series.

Despite the fact that the majority of the SpikeTV's 2011 video game awards handed out at the confusingly-titled Video Game Awards (VGAs) were given off-screen, there still were some best trailers and videos from the show which managed to grab attention.

According to the most recent statistics released by market research firm The NPD Group, game sales for the month of November were topped by first-person shooter `Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3', which outperformed its rival title `Battlefield 3.'

Singapore gaming sector was down till last week but it is expected that its fortune will change in coming weeks. It is expected that many gaming companies like Genting Singapore are planning to bounce back to capture the tourists.

The9 in a brief announcement has said that it is going to disband the operations of EA Sports FIFA Online 2 in China. The step has been taken in through a mutual agreement with FIFA Online 2's developer, Electronic Arts. It has been said there that "license and commercial operation" of the game are going to end before the second quarter of 2011.

Software giant, Microsoft has sold more than 2.5 million of its Kinect controller since its launch last month. The new controller is capable of tracking a players full body movements along with voices and faces and translated them into actions on the screen.