Bored, impressed, and giddy: Our final thoughts on E3 2012 (with photos)
We left the industry trade show with very different opinions on what we saw. Here are our final thoughts.
Turning technology against your friends in Watch Dogs
In one of the coolest sounding cross-platform schemes we've seen, Ubisoft's upcoming open-world hacking playground Watch Dogs allows players to interact with each other's games through a companion mobile app. It's time for some technological warfare.
Star Wars: The Old Republic free character transfers begin today
Free character transfers are now available in BioWare's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic for players stuck on low population servers.
Investor drops support for teen social game after allegations of sexual chats
Venture capital firm Balderton has pulled support for Habbo, an online social game targeted toward younger audiences, after allegations that pornographic chatting was taking place in the title's virtual world.
Draw Something goes global with 12 new languages and celebrity endorsements
Musical artists Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez will team up with Zynga as the company promotes 12 new languages coming to the hit mobile game Draw Something.
Peak Games grows to No. 3 social gaming firm by focusing on the Middle East
With games like Okey, Peak Games has become the No. 3 social game player on Facebook in daily active users.
THQ’s Brian Farrell talks about looking for a bottom and staging a comeback (interview)
Brian Farrell, chief executive of embattled video game publisher THQ, has endured a lot of criticism in the past year as investors have pummeled...
Why we wub wub wub E3 2012: The dubstep of E3
The 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was the year of dubstep.
On homogenization and gaming’s spleen
I've argued that games are an art form before, but with one major caveat: most are bad art. One of the more likely reasons...
Fan acts his heart out at Uncharted developer’s motion-capture studio
Get an extended peek inside Uncharted developer Naughty Dog's motion-capture studio, a state-of-the-art facility where cameras record actors covered in reflective balls that help computers capture movement data.