Super Street Fighter IV is $40. Seems steep for an update to a game that came out only twelve months ago. Let's give Capcom a chance to try and explain.

Speaking with Gamasutra, Capcom's Christian Svensson has said that while it wasn't easy settling on a price point (or even a means of delivering the updated characters), a decision had to be made based on the game's userbase and and simple economics.

Seven dollars of a $60 video game purchase covers expenses for games never even sold. That's according to a breakdown of retail game cost by an on-demand games service.

EA's "Project Ten Dollar" (or, "Project $15 dollar") seems like a good idea to combat the retail industry's reliance on used game sales. But some retailers have pointed out it's not all beneficial to the publisher.

Last week, I wrote about Glyde, the reseller flooded by gamers at its November launch. Because of Glyde's shipping model, the time required for delivery and payment seemed to be a drawback. So how'd Glyde do with a real sale?

When it quietly went online for pre-launch testing early last year, Glyde was a reseller marketplace built with a midwestern, middle-aged book or music lover in mind. Then the gamers found it, and practically took over.

GameStop's chief operating officer says the company must embrace downloadable content for the games it sells and educate its customers on its benefits, calling such a posture critical to the company's survival.

While we're still up to our armpits in 2009 flashbacks, we may as well take a look down under, and see what the twenty best-selling games in Australia were last year.

These figures were released today by chart trackers GfK, who sadly do not provide individual unit sales. Warning: prepare for Nintendomania.

It would appear that GameStop's Italian portal has jumped the gun and revealed the contents of Final Fantasy XIII's hitherto-mysterious collector's edition.

Sure, for the most part it's still way too expensive, but Microsoft keep plugging away with their Games on Demand service for the

On Monday, we wondered where all the 120GB hard disk drives for the Xbox 360 had got to. This GameStop promotion may help explain what's going on.