Ten upcoming Nintendo games

From Yahoo.

See Mario Kart wii, Wii Fit, Guitar Hero on tour, Boom Blox, Rock Band, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of time/darkness, Sonic Chronicles: The dark brotherhood and more

Sims - the $4 Billion Franchise

NY times feature on the sims. The sims franchise has sold 100M copies, in 22 languages across 60 countries since 2000. 

Interview with Dan Houser, Rockstar’s co-founder on Grand Theft Auto IV

No recession for the video game industry

Is the video game business immune to the economic slow down? The game business is going to take off this year with several new mega releases. Grand Theft Auto IV is expected to hit $400M comparable to the Pirates of the Carribbean and significantly more than Halo 3 .

GTA IV to bring in $400 million

Forget movie openings - Think game debuts. And think $400 million for the first week, a record for video games and possibly the biggest debut ever for an entertainment product.

Take-Two and Rockstar Games, who are releasing this title expect to sell some 6 million units.

2007 game developer salary survey

 See what you are worth in the Apr 2008 issue of Game Developer Magazine!

2008 - The year of gaming

From CNET. What will dominate this year’s technology theme? What is recession proof? Would there be a sub-prime crisis in the virtual world? 

Read on…..