Short of actual news, the next best thing to read about online is abject speculation.

To wit: the Web chatter yesterday about a new Nintendo Wii with high-definition capabilities coming in 2011.

Gaming publications got busy after Square Enix president and CEO Yoichi…

Forget about seeing NBC’s “Heroes” turned into a video game. Game maker Ubisoft Entertainment has decided to drop the project.

The announcement came today via MTV Multiplayer, which quoted an Ubisoft spokesman.

“The rights to the ‘Heroes’ video game have reverted back to NBC…

In the wake of the “LittleBigPlanet” lyrics uproar, Reuters news service is asking whether gaming and electronics giant Sony needs someone on staff to advise the company on religious matters.

We mentioned here that Sony was taking heat for background music in the puzzle-creation…

If you haven’t seen the “Wii Fit Girl” twist her way to fame, you’re in the minority. As of Sunday morning, about 4 million e-video viewers have watched a Florida woman clad in striped underwear and a T-shirt play the hula…

By now, the word has trickled into every crack and corner of the Internet that Microsoft is developing a motion-sensitive wand controller for its Xbox 360 console, and that the prototype design fairly resembles the wand available for Nintendo Wii.

Since…

In the two months since MTV Networks and Harmonix released the music-based video game “Rock Band,” players have purchased and downloaded more than 2.5 million additional songs made available after the game’s initial distribution.

Activision, meanwhile, said it has sold more than 5 million…