Digital Chocolate claims in Zynga lawsuit it owns Mafia Wars name
Casual gaming company Digital Chocolate has sued social gaming market leader Zynga, alleging that Digital Chocolate has the exclusive rights to the name Mafia...
Social game maker CrowdStar battles Zynga in Japan with Drecom deal
Japan mobile social network market is becoming a new battleground where American social game companies will slug it out. Social gaming firm CrowdStar is...
Five Things You Didn’t Know About Monday Night Combat
Uber Entertainment recently shared some facts about Monday Night Combat, its tower-defense/team-based-shooter title, via Twitter. It's since become a regular "feature." The best part?...
Do game industry luminaries fear or welcome the arrival of digital distribution?
Digital distribution has arrived in the video game industry, just as it did for music and movies. Will it disrupt game companies as much...
GameStop debuts a “store of the future” as online threat looms
The top brass of GameStop, the world’s biggest video game store chain, dedicated their new “store of the future” on a cool strip of...
Ukraine’s Gameprom scores big with iPhone pinball
In the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, it’s not easy to get your hands on a pinball machine. Nor is it possible to get an Apple-approved...
Taking it Outside: A Gamer’s Take on Geocaching
Editor's note: I'm sure I've read about geocaching before, but I don't remember any specifics, and I've never actually participated in the activity. This...
China to get Lich King add-on for World of Warcraft online game — almost two years late
Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase said today that they will be able to launch Wrath of the Lich King, the add-on expansion for World of...
Intel and Nokia launch joint research on mobile 3D virtual worlds
Smartphones have barely entered the 3D age, but Nokia and Intel are already racing ahead to do research on enabling 3D virtual worlds on...
Sports Gamers — Casually Hardcore?
Editor's note: Chris hits upon one of my pet peeves in video games: Sports games are either for the casual player or the hardest...