Final Fandom: RPG Archetypes and Cleveland Sports Fans
Being a Cleveland sports fan is an undeniably unique (if not completely soul-crushing) experience. It's an allegiance that's much more special than Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo/whatever fanboydom...
News Blips: New THQ Studio, Game Industry Is a Bully, Defending Gaming Rights, and More
I wonder how much longer it will be before we start seeing game-developer trading cards, complete with stats like "Games Programmed On." News Blips:...
Video Blips: Mortal Kombat, Fallout: New Vegas, Dawn of War 2, and More
Scorpion's intentions within the arenas of Mortal Kombat are seriously misinterpreted. All he wants is a hug after throwing his "friendship chain" at you....
News Blips: Blizzard Sues Hackers, Facebook Games Leak Private Data, Microsoft Spends a Half-Billion on Kinect, and More
Cheats used to be fun and simple, like the Konami code. Now, cheating can land your butt in court. Video games really have become...
Former Zynga exec lands at VC firm Maveron
Andrew Trader, an early team member of red-hot gaming startup Zynga, is now joining venture capital firm Maveron, the company told VentureBeat late Monday....
Video Blips: World of Warcraft, Assassin’s Creed, GoldenEye, and More
With the fiery Deathwing's impending reappearance in the unwitting lands of World of Warcraft's Azeroth, anyone not wearing a 1,000-SPF sunblock is going to...
Gaming legend Brian Reynolds on how FrontierVille might change Zynga
Veteran game designer Brian Reynolds said today that FrontierVille, the game that launched earlier this year, was a way for Zynga to experiment with...
Will Nintendo’s 3DS Be Region Free?
Something disturbed me recently. A few days after Nintendo held their press conference in Japan about the Nintendo 3DS, I realized that one little...
Microsoft’s Kinect and Windows Phone 7 marketing blitz to top $1B
If you haven’t heard of Microsoft’s Kinect yet, it will no doubt be hammered into your head over the next few weeks as the...
Netflix streaming video now disc-free on the Nintendo Wii
Nintendo announced today that Wii owners can now watch Netflix streaming video without the need for a Watch Instantly disc. Instead, Wii owners can...