Nintendo rumored to cut Wii price to $150 starting May 15
Nintendo is reportedly planning on cutting the price of its Wii video game console from $199 to $150 on May 15, according to tech...
News Blips: Guitar Hero not fully gone, 3DS sales predictions, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3DS, and more
Guitar Hero's peripherals will always have a special place in my heart. That little plastic guitar could act as a highly effective dinner plate...
Video Blips: Portal 2, Gears of War 3, Dragon’s Dogma, and more
In 1953, Portal 2's Aperture Science was founded as a shower curtain manufacturer. After a deadly exposure to mercury, founder Cave Johnson changed tacks...
World of Tanks takes online game graphics to a new level
One of the coolest hardcore online games to come out recently is World of Tanks, which lets you drive World War II tanks around...
Frozenbyte bets on Humble Bundle to launch games
Y Combinator-backed Humble Bundle is launching its second official batch of games that allows users to set their own price for the cost of...
Online game startup Tiny Speck raises $10.7M from Andreessen Horowitz and Accel
Tiny Speck said today it raised $10.7 million in the second round of funding for its online game business from Andreessen Horowitz and Accel....
PlayJam launches games on LG’s smart TVs
Games are migrating to all platforms. The latest example is a deal between PlayJam and LG to put casual games on smart TVs and...
Victory dance? Ubisoft celebrates as music games shift from guitars to dance
Music game fans have shifted their collective taste from Guitar Hero style games to dance games, thanks to the new motion-sensing technologies that make kinetic games much more fun. No one is happier about that than Ubisoft, the French video game publisher that dominates the dance genre.
China’s online game market to grow to $8B by 2014
China’s online game market grew 25 percent to $5 billion in 2010 and could reach $8 billion in 2014, according to Pearl Research. That...
How a PC gamer learned to love the PlayStation 3
Many gamers have fond childhood memories of Mario or Sonic. My youth, however, was filled with space marines on Mars and tech trees. When...