News Blips: Crysis 2 exits Steam, Duke Nukem Forever PR blunder, Kinect is for core gamers, and more
I guess EA's old moniker of "challenge everything" extends to its newfound kung-fu grip of its games. News Blips: Crysis 2 engaged its nano-cloak...
Video Blips: Child of Eden, Twisted Metal, Earth Defense Force, and more
Fun fact: Child of Eden's creator is Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the mastermind behind the trippy rail shooter Rez. As for the experience, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the...
E3 proves that publishers are still out of touch with half the population
My 2011 obsessions are the Fallout and Mass Effect franchises, I was dedicated to massively multiplayer online, role-playing games for six years, I named...
Hit the deck: LulzSec and Anonymous start trading blows
Hacker group LulzSec has begun publicly attacking hacker group Anonymous, an action that could lead to a civil war of sorts between the two...
The best games of E3 2011
We saw lots of video games at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles last week. Some of them were pretty awesome. The trip...
Valve’s Steam online store launches micro-transaction games
Valve’s Steam service dominates the market for downloadable games on the PC. So it’s a big victory for the free-to-play market that Valve is...
A brief walk around the E3 show floor (video)
Every year after the E3 video game trade show, people ask me what it’s like to go. It’s hard to explain the madness of...
Roblox raises $4M for kids virtual world
Roblox, a kids virtual world that has grown to 5.7 million monthly unique visitors, raised $4 million in venture funding today. With Roblox, kids...
EA’s Frank Gibeau steps into the grudge match between Battlefield and Modern Warfare
Frank Gibeau, president of the EA Games label at Electronic Arts, is responsible for taking the battle to EA’s arch rival, Activision Blizzard, in...
News Blips: Battlefield 3 pre-order protest, The Old Republic vs. Warcraft, Wii U late to the party, and more
All's fair in love and war…and marketing. News Blips: Gamers raise a stink against the inclusion of exclusive weapons and accessories for those who...