A new report from the NPD Group shows that the population of girl gamers is increasing. Eh? Girls play video games? Kidding. So does that mean we'll see more fangirls shouting "PWN!" when playing Grand Theft Auto IV online? Probably not. The report shows that girl gamers are more into social networking and virtual world online games. More after the read more link.

The NPD Group has released a compiled list of the top five best-selling games for each of the consoles. The report tracks sales data from the start of this year all the way up until August. Wondering which games made it to the lists? I'm sure some of you won't be surprised to see this or that title part of the list. Lots of acronym-friendly games chucked in, of course!

The ace in Take-Two's sleeve in its negotiations with Electronic Arts is the indisputable success of Grand Theft Auto IV. However, the game's been out for months now and sales are bound to slow down. In fact, new data from the NPD Group shows that the game's gone down one notch in their best-selling games list. Does this mean EA may yet get their way in their quest to acquire Take-Two?

A new monthly report is in town, and it's a collaborative effort between the top three firms that track sales in the video game industry. North America's NPD Group, UK's Chart Track, and Japan's Enterbrain are now to come up with joint monthly reports. And with their powers combined... it's the Top Global Markets Report! Oooh, sounds like a golden idea! And guess what? The first report has already been published. Wanna see? Get a hold of the top five worldwide best-selling games of 2008 so far!

NPD Group's recent survey manged to investigate the niche segment of the gaming market that is extreme gaming, together with six other segments that the games industry has categorized gamers like us under. Feeling like a can of peaches at your local convenient mart? Well, welcome to new, modernized, cash-driven games industry, folks. Find out where'd you fit in among the 20,000 sampled at the full story.

This week is a special one indeed for the PS3 Weekend Warrior. An insane amount of news has come in from E3 2008 and we've got even more stuff from the NPD. The biggest games, the most controversial issues, and even some homebrew goodness await you in the full article up next.

Thanks in large part to Konami's Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Sony is licking some serious PlayStation 3 sales chops. However, the overall leadership remains with Kyoto-based Nintendo as their twin juggernauts Wii and DS posted huge stats again. The official reactions of both companies after the jump.

The NPD Group has released its report for the month of June and the sales figures are in on the top hardware and software performers of the past 30 days. This has been a big month for the PlayStation 3, but Nintendo's DS and Wii combo is still on top. Details in the full article up ahead.

NPD Group has released the market performance results for May 2008, and already the PR armies at Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have began to churn out their reformatted versions of the results. Of course, each one talks only about what they've achieved so far in the fifth month of the Year of the Rat, but what happens when we put them all together? Yes, we get the full NPD May story.

Ahead of the NPD Group's report on video game sales, analysts have given out their predictions for the month of May, including everyone's favorite analyst, Michael Pachter. So what's he up to now? Find out after the link.