Netflix launched in UK and Ireland, pricing confirmed

Update 2: Wii owners can also now join in. The Netflix app is available to download immediately in the UK and Ireland via the Wii Shop Channel (thanks, Nintendo Life ). Update: Xbox 360 owners are also now able to download Netflix. The service is not yet listed on Xbox Marketplace, but searching via Bing will uncover the app ready to go (thanks to the eagle-eyed commenter Peew971). Original ...

Saling The World: Zumba Fitness, Your Shape climb U.S. charts

Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from January 12th, 2012, find Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 and Zumba Fitness leading domestic multiplatform sales, while Monster Hunter 3G and Mario Kart ...

Why History Needs Software Piracy

How copy protection and app stores could deny future generations their cultural legacy.

How next-generation consoles may eliminate the used gaming market

While internal teams at Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are all hard at work designing and revising new console hardware, at least one next-generation console manufacturer may implement a way to kill used game sales faster than digital downloads.

IMPRESSIONS: Kid Icarus: Uprising Impressions

Pit packs a punch... and a staff, and a club, and a blade, and a... Taking place 24 years after the original, Medusa has returned to torment humankind, and Palutena calls upon Pit to take down the snake-headed goddess and her Underworld Army. Though it's populated by many of the same monsters, Kid Icarus: Uprising is nothing like the original games, but it's a huge mish-mash of several types of ...