Assassins Creed boosts Ubisoft estimates Citing stronger-than-expected sales of game, publisher predicts operating income will be 3 percent higher than previous estimate. French video game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment raised its revenue and profit estimates on Thursday, citing strength of its Assassins Creed action game. Ubisoft expected operating income before stock options in...

Google develops Wikipedia rival Now in beta, the "knol project" aims to present authoritative articles; once project goes live, contributors can monetize their pages. Search and advertising giant Google is developing a user-generated online encyclopedia that could rival Wikipedia. Google has named the encyclopedia the "knol project," a knol being a...

Codename Panzers: Cold War Hands-On [PC] Codename Panzers: Cold War takes the acclaimed real-time strategy series out of World War II for the first time. We flew to Hungary for a full briefing.

Analyst: Small Wii supply costing Nintendo big Industry watcher says console makers inability to keep up with demand is costing $1.3 billion in hardware sales alone.

NPD: November cooks up $2.63 billion in game sales Massive holiday haul pushes YTD earnings over $13.1 billion, Wii narrowly misses 1-million-sales mark; Call of Duty 4 victorious with 2-million-unit total.

Scunthorpe Squad Town manager Jim Magilton has named a 19-man provisional squad for Towns game Scunthorpe United on Saturday.

Not long to wait The new owner of the much-contested second Force India race seat will be confimed by the end of this month, Vijay Mallya told the official Formula 1 website. Insisting that the team is not interested in any pay drivers, the Indian billionaire describes the impending decision as difficult. The recent winter tests have seen some very high profile names testing for the team.

Poll: "Big Break: Mesquite" Championship Match ... and then there were two. After a surprising elimination in Tuesdays seminfinal "tournament," the final two players still alive in "Big Break: Mesquite" are ready for their championship match...