Significant moments in gaming: 2010 edition
(This article contains spoilers for Red Dead Redemption.) Last year was a step forward for video games in hundreds of ways. Whether we forayed...
Nintendo may debut new HD console at E3 show in June
Nintendo is expected to debut a new video game console to replace its aging Wii next year. the Japanese company is expected to make...
Game makers: Amazon’s Android appstore terms are greedy
Amazon.com is in hot water for the pricing strategy and terms for developers in its new app store for Android games. Basically, game makers...
Halfbrick’s Monster Dash is a case study in mobile cross promotion
Mobile game maker Halfbrick made out like a bandit with its Fruit Ninja mobile game, selling its game to 23 million players. Now its...
By 2015, 50 percent of companies will embrace gamification, Gartner says
If there’s any evidence that gamification has hit its hype peak, this is it. Gartner says that by 2015, more than 50 percent of...
An attempt to grow up? We Dare and the state of the industry
Interactive entertainment has never quite made it out of its troubled adolescence. As far as we've come — all the way from simple, chunky...
Valve’s alternate reality game stirs fascination with Portal 2
Hoping to build interest in its upcoming Portal 2 video game, game creator and publisher Valve has created an “alternate reality game” (ARG) to...
Love game: Is virtual romance emblematic of traditional courtship?
I stumbled upon the Digital Romance Lab last week via Rock Paper Shotgun’s Sunday Papers. As writer Jim Rossignol suggests, Digital Romance Lab's "On Simulation, Science, and Love" is a beautiful post, so I wholeheartedly suggest you read it. More than that, it provides some context for this article.
IMVU scores with Groupon-style buying in virtual world (exclusive)
IMVU has been selling virtual items such as clothing to its virtual world users for a long time. But the company saw some good...
Microsoft details how developers can run with Kinect motion sensor
Microsoft showed developers today how they can exploit the Kinect motion sensor for applications that go beyond controlling video games for the Xbox 360....