Angry Birds are coming to a Starbucks near you
Rovio Entertainment, the company behind Angry Birds, is in talks with Starbucks to bring the game to life in Starbucks’ retail locations. The gaming...
Netflix’s Qwikster game rentals may have short shelf life, thanks to cloud gaming
Netflix today spun off its mail-order DVD business into a new service called Qwikster, which will include mail-order video game rentals. Given Netflix’s immense...
Blizzard details World of Warcraft: Cataclysm’s epic finale
Blizzard Entertainment isn’t known for doing things small. That holds especially true for the World of Warcraft’s next content patch, which will bring a close...
5 minutes with Inversion’s Hourglass mode
At first glance, Saber Interactive's Inversion seems like another entrant in the rapidly ballooning list of cover-based shooter titles routinely spit out by the...
Notch: the Man, the Myth, the Magnificant
Last week I visited my family in Michigan. I was leaning against the doorway of my little brother’s bedroom as he enthusiastically showed me...
Nintendo, What Happened?
Nintendo has been in a decline for the past couple of years, whether it is the lack of people playing on the Wii or recently where the 3DS didn’t sell to the numbers that were predicted causing Nintendo to pondering on a costly re-launch of the handheld.
Meet Studio Ghibli’s PlayStation 3 game, Ni No Kuni
A playable demo of Studio Ghibli’s PlayStation 3 game Ni No Kuni, which is bound for the U.S. early next year, made it to...
Updated PSN terms remove right to collectively sue Sony
PlayStation manufacturer Sony has added a clause to its terms of service for its online gaming network, the PlayStation Network (PSN), that waives users’...
Gamification in the age of distraction
This post is sponsored by FunMobility. Real-time interaction with an audience has become the must-have foundation by which brands and companies market to and...
News Blips: New PSN contract terms, Final Fantasy 13-2 PS3, Mortal Kombat hits 3 million, and more
For all you complainers that think suing Sony is a difficult task…well, you have a special "get in line here for lawsuit" system now....