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Stores sold 4% less video-game equipment -- including hardware, software and accessories -- in October compared to a year ago, according to research firm NPD Group. While players are spending more on the games themselves, they aren't shelling out for new consoles: Sales of those systems declined significantly.

In Electronic Arts' new Medal of Honor game, players can take on the role of the Taliban or U.S. soldiers. But the prospect of having players shoot Americans doesn't go over too well with a lot of people, including the folks running base stores.

Finding new ways to save money on everyday activities is one of our favorite things to do at WalletPop, so much so that we recently compiled 20 rules to live by for cheapskates -- but that's not enough. When we learned that Savings.com had gone on a search for the best deal hunters around, we had...

Apple's new content guidelines for app developers are a muddled mess, and the rejection of a satirical app submitted by The Onion is a perfect example of why they need to be rewritten.

Literally a day after Target announced that the company would begin buying used video games and electronics in half of Target locations by the end of the year, Best Buy has announced that it is expanding the online video game trade-in service it has been running to 600 stores starting today, with...

If you have a collection of old video games, iPods and other electronics that are collecting dust in your basement, you'll soon be able to take them to your local Target and trade them in for a Target gift card. The new Target Electronics Trade-In program has already launched in Northern California...

Anyone who has played a video game has experienced the desire to keep going even when work, school -- even Mom -- calls for him to put down the controller and walk away. While most gamers can step away from the virtual world, some can not. Craig Smallwood of Hawaii couldn't, so he filed a lawsuit....

One Million dollars. That's the prize that 24-year-old Wade McGilberry of Semmes, Alabama won for pitching a perfect game. If you didn't hear the news on ESPN, don't worry, Wade isn't a Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. He is a video game record setter, who pitched his perfect game in MLB 2K10,...

The video game industry is seeing significant job growth in spite of the economy and a number of colleges and universities are offering programs to help students enter this industry (which offers an average salary of $80,000). NPR reports that courses or degrees for developing video games are...

The art of the deal isn't something students usually study in elementary school, and neither are the principles of real estate, the rough and tumble rules of the stock market or best practices for starting a business. However, there are games for kids that do exactly that. The best part? The...