Japan’s DeNA buys iPhone game publisher Ngmoco for up to $400M
Japan’s DeNA said today it is buying Ngmoco for up to $400 million in cash and stock in the biggest iPhone-related acquisition to date....
Surviving Taliban controversy, Medal of Honor video game assaults the Call of Duty franchise
Electronic Arts is launching Medal of Honor today as a critical reboot of a video game franchise that is a big part of EA’s...
GameSalad aims to let anyone create and launch iPhone apps
If you already think developers have created too many iPhone games (there are 49,000 of them), just wait until user-generated games take off. GameSalad...
Waste Management touts real-life recycling with Facebook game
Maybe offering three cents per aluminum can isn’t much of an incentive to recycle. Would a game on Facebook be a better motivator? Recycling...
News Blips: Help Develop Mega Man Legends 3, Sega Removes “Average” Sonic Games, and More
Remember, Mega Man Legends fans. Whenever the long-awaited sequel comes out, address your diatribes about how the game isn't as good as earlier titles...
EA Mobile throws its support behind Windows Phone 7
Electronic Arts‘ mobile game division, EA Mobile, said today it will make games for Microsoft‘s Windows Phone 7 and has four titles ready for...
Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 to show U-verse live TV
AT&T confirmed today that Microsoft‘s Xbox 360 will serve as a set-top box for AT&T’s U-verse broadband TV service. While it’s an interesting development...
Reviews Spotlight: BioShock, Comic Jumper, and BOGOs
Fears are preeminent in this week's Reviews Spotlight. Bitmobbers display their acute phobias of water, women, and Matrix filmmakers the Wachowskis — and in some cases,...
A Brief History of Stealth Games
Stealth-action video games fill out a genre that asks its players to surreptitiously navigate through an enemy-occupied area while maintaining discretion and avoiding detection....
Dungeons: Tourism Never Was this Evil
Greetings, fellow dungeon taskmaster! Are your skull-adorned candleabras not providing enough visual zest? Does your blood-filled reflecting pool tiredly drip when it should boldly...