Spansion banks its future on memory chips for 3D mobile game devices
Memory chip maker Spansion may not be a sexy company, but the sexy devices that consumers lust after wouldn’t be possible without it. A...
Reviews Spotlight: Black Ops, Ninja Turtles, and German Fantasy
It's clear that Bitmob has Call of Duty on its mind. But this week's Reviews Spotlight doesn't spend all of its time dwelling on the...
Black Ops and the Military Entertainment Complex
Full disclosure: Gamestop Corporation provided the review copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops, free of charge. The tragic events of September 11, 2001...
Mother 3 Translator Catalogs the Strange World of Game Merch
Over time, whether we intend to or not, we all end up with our own personal video game collections. Maybe you own every title...
How The Old Republic’s Crew Skills Fix the Boring Parts of MMOs
BioWare doesn't want you to pick flowers in its upcoming massively multiplayer game, Star Wars: The Old Republic. No, this isn't a propagation of...
News Blips: New Psychonauts?, Wii Holiday Sales, Kinect’s True Price, and More
Do you want another Psychonauts? So does creator Tim Schafer. Do you have millions of dollars? Neither does Tim Schafer. News Blips: Tim Schafer...
No Further Action Required: Betrayal in Life and Video Games
My oldest friend betrayed me today. If I hadn't made a split-second decision, he would have ruined my entire life in one fell swoop....
Free-to-play games creep closer to killing monthly subscriptions
The free-to-play model has all but taken over the online game industry. Next stop: everything else. Free online games, which make money through upgrades...
Microsoft Kinect hack gets serious with multitouch interface (video)
The comparisons between Microsoft’s Kinect body-gesture motion-control system and the cool gesture-controlled computer in the 2002 sci fi movie Minority Report are getting old,...
News Blips: New Wii Music, Viacom Selling Harmonix, Call of Duty Endowment, and More
After two long years of hoping and begging, our efforts have finally paid off: Nintendo is making another Wii Music! News Blips: Shigeru Miyamoto...