5 minutes with Inversion’s Hourglass mode
At first glance, Saber Interactive's Inversion seems like another entrant in the rapidly ballooning list of cover-based shooter titles routinely spit out by the...
Bunchball hits 500M badges awarded for gamification service
Bunchball launched its gamification service four years ago, before the name for adding game-like features to non-game applications became popular. Now the company is disclosing...
Gamification in the age of distraction
This post is sponsored by FunMobility. Real-time interaction with an audience has become the must-have foundation by which brands and companies market to and...
News Blips: New PSN contract terms, Final Fantasy 13-2 PS3, Mortal Kombat hits 3 million, and more
For all you complainers that think suing Sony is a difficult task…well, you have a special "get in line here for lawsuit" system now....
Video Blips: Dark Souls, Devil May Cry, Starhawk, and more
I don't think I've ever seen a website address with as blunt (and apt) of an outlook on my in-game life as Dark Souls'...
Note to publishers: Spread out your releases
Can you imagine a publisher having the gall to release a highly anticipated game before the holiday window? It’s an unprecedented suggestion, even stupid,...
Bitmob Writing Challenge Collected Works: The importance of game settings
We asked you to contemplate video-game settings for the latest Bitmob Writing Challenge, and you delivered. We got a number of insightful articles analyzing...
I don’t wanna be a video-game hero anymore
This article contains spoilers for Mafia 2. We stomp goombas on our way to rescue the princess, we save the world from nuclear destruction...
MindJolt gets a third of its revenues from social mobile games
MindJolt got a lot of goodness with its acquisition of mobile game maker SGN back in April. Mobile game revenues now account for a...
News Blips: Blizzard won’t cash in on consoles, Skyward Sword takes up to 100 hours, and Syndicate remake “was always an FPS”
In a breaking report, Blizzard announced today that its programming team will no longer refer to themselves as developers, opting for the name "fungineers"...