After raising $100M and launching dud online game, Realtime Worlds heads for bankruptcy
Realtime Worlds was a promising game studio that probably got its hands on too much money. The Dundee, Scotland-based company filed for administration, or...
Dead Rising Movie Available Free Online
Editor's note: Camaren was right, I had no idea that this Dead Rising flick existed. But once I watched the trailer, I knew I...
Game retailer GameStop misses earnings target despite huge used-game sales
GameStop, the world’s biggest video game retailer, missed its earnings target by a penny a share today. But its performance wasn’t as weak as...
PlaySpan raises $18M from Vodafone and SoftBank for virtual goods platform
Someday, it may be better to be in the virtual goods business than the real goods business. PlaySpan is demonstrating that as it announces...
Games Doing Good (Again): Video Game Trains Nursing Students
Editor's note: Chas is really into games-as-training-sims, and so am I. Read more from him on the subject here and here. -Demian It's not...
High Noon at the Co-op Corral: The Death of Local Multiplayer
Editor's note: Isaiah's account of the ongoing decline of local co-op is more mournful than cranky. What can I say? I really miss the...
Booyah builds a new location app for Facebook Places in three weeks (video)
Keith Lee, chief executive of location-based game company Booyah, said today that his team built its new Facebook Places location app — InCrowd —...
Google’s Chrome Web Store likely coming in October, focusing on games
Back in May, we reported that Google was working on an app store for web applications, dubbed the Chrome Web Store. Now we have...
The BioShock Backlash: Negative Responses to BioShock Infinite
Last week, after inviting speculation to a voicemail inbox and teasing us with a mysterious webpage, Irrational Games unveiled its next project: BioShock Infinite....
Scott Pilgrim vs. The Neglected Medium
Editor's note: Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World is a landmark moment for Matthew: By drawing on the shared experiences of gamer culture, it's the...