News Blips: EA’s “Culture of Fear”, Gran Turismo 5 Delayed, Sonic Mimics Mario, and More
Remember EA Spouse, the disgruntled EA employee's wife whose blog brought about higher salaries and overtime pay for the company's workers? Well, consider EA...
Write Trigger: Get Paid To Write Now
Write Trigger: GET PAID NOW Lots of you want to write about videogames, but playing forty hours a week and finding all the...
Atari: The original lean startup
(Editor’s note: Sylvie Leotin is the president at Atelier Leotin, a boutique consultancy firm. A modified version of this story originally appeared on her...
Pixel Revolt 27: Bucket-List Games, Tired Franchises, and Tacked-On Multiplayer
Pixel Revolt is Bitmob's community-driven podcast, in which Derek Lavigne, Jeff Grubb, Brett Bates, and a special guest dive into the Mobfeed to discuss...
Critics skewer Medal of Honor, and investors take down EA’s stock price
Only 30 publications have fully reviewed Electronic Arts‘ big game of the fall, Medal of Honor, on the Xbox 360 game console. But the...
Summer Wars: A Movie That Finally Gets Gaming Culture Right
A few games-related movies — Mass Effect, Uncharted, Shadow of the Colossus, etc. — are on the 2011-12 horizon, but the real gem that...
News Blips: Costly 3DS, Growing Game Budgets, Redbox Game Rentals, and More
Remember when we determined the 3DS's hefty cost? The Japanese noticed. News Blips: Eighty percent of Japanese gamers consider Nintendo's 3DS to be a...
PlayFirst raises $9.2M to expand casual gaming offerings
Casual gaming startup PlayFirst announced this morning that it has raised an additional $9.2 million. The company, which started in 2004, is best known...
Video Blips: Black Ops, Epic Mickey, DC Universe Online, and More
Treyarch's unsubtle grab at the modern-shooter spotlight is clearly evident in Call of Duty: Black Ops. I felt right at home after witnessing the...
Current-Gen Multiplayer Is Boring: Redefining What It Means to Play Together
In a recent article on Bitmob, Rus McLaughlin argued that multiplayer is in dire need of fixing. He examined three upcoming titles' approach to...