Fishy business: The real story of an App Store clone war
Radical Fishing isn’t much to look at. Even its creators, Jan Willem Nijman and Rami Ismail, admit that their development focus was primarily on...
Why aren’t sports video games like Friday Night Lights?
I've heard rumblings about this for several years now, about how it's one of the best shows of the past ten years, possibly ever. But I was always hesitant to check it out, because of a few words people kept repeating – "it's a football show".
Idle Games helps you find new friends in social games
Social gaming company Idle Games launched its first social game, Idle Worship, today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco. Idle Worship...
Angry Birds hits 350M downloads, more films and media coming
Gamers have downloaded game developer Rovio’s Angry Birds, a popular iPhone slingshot-style game franchise, more than 350 million times, the company’s general manager Andrew Stalbow...
EA’s The Sims Social breezes past Zynga’s Farmville
Game publishing company Electronic Arts‘ newest social game, The Sims Social, has passed social gaming supergiant Zynga’s Farmville and now has 36 million monthly...
Playing with a budget
After finishing graduate school, I joined the unemployed and underemployed masses. I've thought about the price of gaming while waiting for that coveted job...
Quarters optional for this Super Mario game in a box
Back in the old days, before TV tenderized our brains into lumps of clay, side-scrolling games dwelled inside delicately crafted cardboard boxes. At least,...
News Blips: Dead Island’s sexist code, Max Payne 3 in March 2012, Activision settles MW3 website dispute, and more
Who says code monkeys lack a sense of humor? Oh, wait, I meant an intolerant sense of humor. My mistake. News Blips: A mysogynistic...
Video Blips: Rage, Kenshi, Deus Ex: Human Revolution DLC, and more
The bandits of Rage know that the quickest way to cow a stronghold is through its plumbing — especially if critical pipe junctions sit...
Nintendo 3DS sales nearly triple after price cut
Sales of Nintendo’s latest handheld console, the Nintendo 3DS, rose 260 percent after the company slashed the price of the device by 40 percent....