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...
News Blips: Ubisoft’s online pass, Xbox Windows integration, GameStop targets Steam, and more
Instead of Harry Potter fans dressing up as their favorite wizards, they should dress up as wizards posing as normal people. Hilarity ensues. News...
Video Blips: Call of Duty Elite, Prototype 2, Metro: Last Light, and more
Having a bunch of hardened soldiers meet in an idyllic nuclear family's home is just as silly as making a machinima video about a...
I’m a 27-year-old Pokémon master…and proud of it
I became a Pokémon trainer in 1998. I’ve waged hundreds of battles, traversed five different regions, and even caught 'em all. Now, with the...
Why you nerds should stop hating sports games
Basketball game NBA 2k11 doesn’t start off with a title menu. It throws you straight into the classic 1991 championship game between the Chicago...
The 6 Most Valuable Games of All Time (Quantified by NBA Live 1995)
Do we really need a new sports game every single year? Do we really need an annual football game when EA (the developers) hold exclusivity rights with the NFL to ensure there is no competition within the market? The obvious answer here is no. No, we don’t need any more sports games now or ever.
Cloud-based video games will put pirates out of business
Ever wonder what the gaming world would be like without pirates? That future isn’t too far away, thanks to the advent of cloud-based gaming...
News Blips: PSN profits for Sony, XCOM’s new genre, THQ on next-gen density, and more
My finger hovered briefly over the button that would send the "download" command for Sony's offering of free games — until I realized my...
Video Blips: Call of Juarez: The Cartel, Mortal Kombat, Storm, and more
Urban warfare games always hand us policemen or crooks to play with, but I'm still holding out for a civilian class with cover-based "cower"...