Online and mobile games should generate more revenue than console games
The video games industry is big and getting bigger. But it’s changing. Console games are getting riskier to make, while online and mobile games...
News Blips: Redeeming Pirates, Signing with Kinect, Scary Assassin’s Creed Toys, and More
Forget hunting for bargains and preowned games — amass an armada of pirates and watch those prices plummet! News Blips: Amanita Design cuts the...
Video Blips: Call of Duty: Black Ops, Madden, Monday Night Combat, and More
It's always cold in Call of Duty: Black Ops, but hey, I'll take frozen facial hair over embarrassing sweat stains from the eternally sun-baked...
Nvidia scores $25M Pentagon contract to develop 1,000X faster supercomputers with graphics chips
A team led by Nvidia has won a $25 million research grant from the Pentagon to create high-performance supercomputers that exploit the computational capabilities...
Dragon Warrior and Other Things I Didn’t Know
I Editor's note: Sean's decades-long experience with Dragon Quest has been a learning experience. As he's grown to love the series, he's also grown...
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,...