How Skype plans to make money from ads, games and virtual gifts
Skype disclosed in its filing for an initial public offering today that less than 7 percent of its users actually pay for Skype calling...
Mentez gets investment to build social games in Latin America and Brazil (exclusive)
Social gaming firm Mentez has raised a round of funding to build games for the Latin American market and Brazil. New York-based Insight Venture...
Facebook will hire leader to deal with its game partners
Facebook has been so focused on growing its social network of 500 million users, you would never know that it is operating one of...
Former Skype CEO leads $2M investment in online games offer firm SupersonicAds
Former Skype chief executive Michael van Swaaij has led a $2 million round of funding for SupersonicAds, the newest kid on the block in...
Reviews Spotlight: Transformers, Spewer, Backbreaker, and More
My goodness, is it Sunday already? I lost track of the time reading awesome reviews on extreme robots, vomiting lab experiments, burly football players,...
Ugly Pokémon: Gotta Run Away From Them All
Pikachu is always cute and cuddly, and it appears at least one artist out there is sick of it. A member of deviantART named...
Dissecting the Fallacy of Cinematic Trailers
Roughly halfway through my viewing of the exquisitely crafted E3 trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, I felt that something was wrong. Was...
Mario’s Reign of Terror Comes to a Bitter End
Stomping on Goombas can't be as clean and clinical as it always looks. This cartoon made by Maneggs shows the darker side of the...
WoW4Cure Charity Event This Weekend
Broadcasting live over this weekend, WoW4CURE's five-man crew of friends, brothers, science grads, and gamers are playing a World of Warcraft marathon to raise...
Complexity Is Killing the Japanese RPG
Editor's note: Eugene's got an interesting premise behind his criticisms of the Japanese role-playing game. Instead of bemoaning storytelling, he notes that the gameplay...