Nvidia beats earnings estimates as mobile graphics takes off
Nvidia‘s third quarter earnings beat analysts expectations, the company reported in an earnings call today. Nvidia is the world’s biggest independent maker of graphics chips...
Microsoft shifts online veteran to run Xbox marketing
Microsoft online business veteran Yusuf Mehdi will become head of marketing for the Interactive Entertainment Division that includes the Xbox game division, the company...
Gaming population doubles in three years thanks to smartphones, tablets
Two reports released this week show the continuing growth and potential market dominance of digital and mobile gaming. The number of Americans who play...
Review: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer is a sweet addiction
Dear reader. I died many times to bring you this review. I endured endless humiliation as my fellow gamers shot me and trampled over...
Uncharted 3 sold 3.8M copies on its first day
Sony’s Uncharted 3 Drakes Fortune shipped 3.8 million on its first day of sales on Nov. 1, the company announced today. That puts the...
Review: Skyrim is far greater than the sum of its parts
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the latest blockbuster hopeful from developer/publisher Bethesda Softworks. Following in the footsteps of the studio’s previous award-winning open-world...
News Blips: Battlefield 4 rumor, new Xbox might arrive by holiday 2012, and Skyrim has infinite quests
Wednesday News Blips writer Jeff Grubb is indisposed today due to a hazardous lack of balls insurance. Thank goodness for redundancy! News Blips: Be...
Korean and Chinese online gaming giants join in an alliance
Two major Asian online game companies are forming an alliance. South Korea’s Nexon (recently relocated to Japan) and China’s Perfect World are teaming up...
EA executive confirms Battlefield 4 is in the works
Electronic Arts executiveFrank Gibeau has confirmed that Battlefield 4 is in the works. Gibeau, the president of the EA Games label within EA, made...
Call of Duty Elite team still tackling startup problems
Activision Blizzard‘s Beachhead Studios is still tackling problems related to an overflow of registrations for the new Call of Duty Elite social network. [Update:...