With EA’s The Sims Social, has Zynga met its match? (hands on)
The Sims, a life simulation game, is one of Electronic Arts’ most successful franchises. The company has sold more than 140 million copies of...
Power to the people: Why corporate branding is bad for games
I can remember a time when the famous 20th Century Fox logo and fanfare meant only one thing to me: Star Wars. I don’t...
A Missed, Mass Opportunity
I'll never admit to being a "fanboy" of anything, unless it's Mass Effect. Now that I've read all three books, I'm currently replaying the two games on a new save file, my "renegade run," as it were.
Team Fortress 2’s slickest sentry takedown ever
CorridorDigital is so lucky. The freeway underpass which serves as ground zero for this group of cinematic YouTube aficionados offers the perfect mixture of...
How modern games have made me a lazy player
I used to love open-world games. I remember playing Grand Theft Auto 3. That sandbox Rockstar created absolutely blew my mind. A game where I could...
Japanese gaming and marketing: A brief interview with Sony Project Manager Nicolo Accordino
Fifteen years ago it took an airplane, a miracle, or a very expensive phone call just to make contact with someone in Japan. Well, the times,...
News Blips: Blizzard stumped over Diablo 3 backlash, Steam doesn’t get Battlefield 3, Vita delayed to 2012, and more
Blizzard's reasoning behind storing all Diablo 3 character data on its servers is for added stability. Either that, or it wants an easy way...
Video Blips: Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team, Sine Mora, Rise of Nightmares, and more
Sure, we've all seen the common "bad-ass space marine" trope of science-fiction games, but the crew cuts of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team's marines sport...
Facebook core-games maker Kixeye raises $18M
Kixeye, a developer of social games on Facebook for core gamers, announced today that it has raised $18 million in its third round of...
Rift developer Trion picks up games vet to head third-party publishing
Trion Worlds, the developer behind massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Rift, announced today that it has hired games industry veteran David Luehmann to...