Despite a recent string of down months in U.S. video game sales at retail this year, a new report from research firm Gartner paints a very rosy picture for the global video game industry. When adding in revenues from burgeoning online, mobile and digital gaming sectors, Gartner estimates that worldwide spending on the gaming ecosystem will exceed $74 billion in 2011, up 10.4 percent from the $67 billion spent last year. By 2015, spending is expected to reach $112 billion.

LOS ANGELES– For the first time ever, GamerLive.TV will broadcast 3D video coverage of the E3 Expo, the premier game trade show in the U.S., to gamers and tech enthusiasts around the world.  The high-quality, stereoscopic 3D video will be viewable via the YouTube video player for users with NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ PCs.

When it comes to sci-fi, actor Nathan Fillion has a huge following. Although he’s gone mainstream as Richard Castle in the ABC hit TV series “Castle,” fans still know him from his work as Captain Malcolm Reynolds on Joss Whedon’s “Firefly” and the big screen incarnation Serenity. Fillion can also be heard portraying Gunnery Sergeant Buck in Bungie’s Halo: Reach, a role he also played in Halo: ODST. Fillion was on hand at the TRON: Legacy party to talk about the upcoming 3D movie as well as the world of videogames in this exclusive video interview.

SEATTLE -- The wait is almost over for one of the biggest entertainment launches of the year. Microsoft is pulling out all of the stops to celebrate the launch of Halo: Reach, the prequel to the blockbuster trilogy that became a global entertainment phenomenon and defined a generation of gamers. Bungie was on hand at PAX Prime 2010 to discuss the culmination of the franchise in this exclusive video interview.