What Can Twitter Reveal About Gamers’ Collective Unconscious?
Editor's note: Joe uses a pretty infographic of game-related tweets to propose a weighty theory about why we play games. What do you conclusions...
Video Blips: Fable 3, Commander, DJ Hero 2, and More
Time takes its toll in Fable 3, most notably in the form of heightened technology and the presence of disobediant poultry. Video Blips: •...
Enjoying the Unpredictability of Open-World Games
Editor's note: Richard takes a humorous look at the lighter side of glitching. I have to agree; sometimes a broken bit of code can...
Video Game Zombies: Different yet Exactly the Same
Editor's note: I'll admit that I find something alluring about zombies — that creeping death now only a shell of its former self intrigues...
Video game industry is reinventing itself (video)
The video game industry is being turned inside out as users migrate online and embrace new platforms from the iPhone to Facebook. Business models...
Google agrees to buy Slide for $182M as it moves into social games
As it tries to move into social games, Google has reportedly agreed to buy app maker Slide for $182 million, according to a published...
Online game service OnLive’s latest filing points to $1.1 billion valuation
Online game company OnLive‘s latest valuation is an estimated $1.1 billion, after taking investments from new investors BT and the Belgacom Group this spring,...
FTC spells out antitrust settlement with Intel
The Federal Trade Commission said it has settled charges that Intel used anticompetitive tactics to stifle innovation and harm consumers in the markets for...
Games: The Gateway Drug to Appreciating Other Media
My historical knowledge and daily intake of pop-culture is limited. I go to the movies, but I don't read reviews or bookmark blogs; I...
The Fall of Pixel Art and the Demise of Memorable Character Design
Editor's note: I think Ben makes a great point here: modern video-game characters have lost a lot of the charm of their pixel-art predecessors....