The Curdled Milk of Human Kindness: How Folding@home Turned Friends against One Another
The gradual perversion and mutation of Folding@home didn't take very long for me. At first, I thought the initiative was a remarkable way for...
Location game MyTown now lets users check-in around the globe … sort of
MyTown, a mobile check-in game for iPhone and iPod Touch, today announced its global availability. While the company claims global access, it’s really just...
Lord of the Rings Online doubles its revenue after going free-to-play
Turbine’s online role-playing game Lord of the Rings Online has doubled its revenue since it moved from a subscription model to a free-to-play model...
Billabong Surf Trip: A Surfer’s Take
Chillingo's Billabong Surf Trip is now available in the App store. This iPhone-based surfing game is the first surfing game released since Kelly Slater's...
Game Characters Who Tweet: Kirby, Sonic, and Donkey Kong
If Donkey Kong could talk, what would he say (in 140 characters or less)? Apparently, kind of dirty things. We’ve seen what some gun-toting...
News Blips: Gears of War 3 Multiplayer, Halo Movie Revival, X-Men: Destiny, and More
While many of you are disappointed with Gears of War 3's delay into the holiday 2011 period, these new multiplayer details are sure to...
AT&T U-Verse on the Xbox 360 is three years too late
In 2007, Bill Gates announced with great fanfare at the Consumer Electronics Show that you would be able to use your Xbox 360 as...
Video Blips: Force Unleashed 2, New Vegas, Vanquish, and More
Poor Starkiller. The protagonist of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 died in the first game, and now he's a clone. Clearly he has...
The Geekbox – Episode 86
The Geekbox — Episode 86 (2010-10-06) Wherein we discuss fake Facebooks, more Minecraft, Limbo story analysis (spoilers!), Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, bad...
Holding back free game hordes, World of Warcraft crosses 12M paying subscribers
World of Warcraft is successfully holding defending its territory against the onslaught of free-to-play fantasy role-playing games. Blizzard Entertainment said today that WoW has...