Lodsys targets Rovio, EA, Square Enix and more with amended patent lawsuit
Patent licensing company Lodsys fired a shot at some of the biggest game makers in the world with an amended patent lawsuit against Angry...
The rise of gold farming in China
While some see massively multiplayer online games (MMO) as a way to waste an afternoon, others rely on the genre to feed their families. For...
Do we really own what’s inside the cloud?
We're all moving towards an age where online servers are handling our data and delivering our entertainment. This technology is typically referred to as...
News Blips: No Treyarch influence in Modern Warfare 3, Nintendo’s first-party games, LittleBigPlanet was almost free-to-play, and more
Variability in a Call of Duty game? It's like arguing over the minute differences in interior decor of every McDonald's you've visited. News Blips:...
Video Blips: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Star Fox 64 3D, Cave Story 3D, and more
Our resident fighting-game guru Chris Hoadley expertly provides character predictions, so hopefully he'll help me make sense of what the hell is going on...
Meet Roku 2: a video streaming box with motion-controlled gaming (video)
Roku, a company that produces boxes that stream web content to televisions, announced today that it is unveiling a new lineup of devices that...
Updated: Facebook to share ad revenue with Zynga, SEC filing reveals
[Updated: Facebook has made a statement about the filing.] Social games maker Zynga it has a revenue-sharing agreement with Facebook. The agreement, disclosed in...
Review: Shadows of the Damned — Video Gaming’s First Supergroup?
Supergroups sound like a great idea on paper: take established artists, clump them together in one band and let them collaborate without interference. However, the same reasons that make the supergroup concept so exciting are often their undoing.
Here are Zynga’s minority investors: Google, Peter Thiel, Softbank and others
Social game maker Zynga has outed its minority investors, which stand to make some serious cash off the company’s upcoming $1 billion initial public...
The trouble with Tomb Raider
I got some push-back for including Crystal Dynamics' 2012 Tomb Raider demo in a post about E3 marketing misses and mistakes. Some readers/viewers see and hear...