Dear Mario: Thanks For Everything
Nintendo released Super Mario Galaxy 2 months ago, and I still want to play it really, really bad. I’ve watched trailers and read reviews. Short of...
Nintendo: the gaming landscape has changed forever, but console’s are doing just fine
Five years ago, video games were in a “golden age.” The Playstation 2 was dominating sales and found its way into most households, and...
Activision Blizzard makes $360M overnight on Call of Duty: Black Ops launch
Activision Blizzard must get tired of setting records all the time. Call of Duty: Black Ops has shattered the previous record for launch-day game...
Social Gaming Summit: December 1 in New York (VentureBeat discount)
Social Gaming Summit East, December 1, 2010 in New York City, will unite leaders in free-to-play games, social networking, and payments infrastructure to share...
OnLive taps Equinix for data center services to put games in the cloud
Game service OnLive won a name for itself by making serious game-playing possible on any kind of computer via the cloud. It uses web-connected...
Why EA took over giant online game Star Wars: The Old Republic (video)
Game publisher Electronic Arts is scrambling to double down its bets on online games, now that its game console business valued at zero by...
Over-the-top game creator CliffyB praises the comedy of violence in Bulletstorm (video)
Violent video games have horrified some parents and politicians. But to Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski, they’re a platform for comedy. Bleszinski is the design director...
Hip Venture abandons virtual world to pivot into social games (exclusive)
There’s a stampede going on. Publishers of virtual worlds are moving on to better things, or they’re perishing. Usually, that means they’re pivoting into...
News Blips: Black Ops Bans, Halo Waypoint App, Battle.net Dial-In Authenticator, and More
Everyone knows people cheated and hacked in Modern Warfare 2 to become famous, but Treyarch hates our obsession with celebrities. News Blips: Treyarch representatives...
Social game company Summerlight comes out of stealth (exclusive)
Social game companies such as Zynga owe much of their success to Facebook. But they’ve learned the lesson in recent months that they should...