Categories Posted inin Business Microsoft to sell Kinect motion-sensing system for $149 Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 20, 2010 2 min Confirming earlier rumors, Microsoft said today it will start selling its Kinect motion-sensing system for the Xbox 360 on Nov. 4 for $149. Kinect,... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business With more than 1M users, Raptr formally launches social network for gamers Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 20, 2010 3 min Raptr has more than a million users of its gamer social network, which has been in testing for more than two years. So now... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Offerpal launches SocialKast to recruit social game fans on any site Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 20, 2010 1 min Offerpal Media got stung last week when it was told it wouldn’t be providing special ad offers for Facebook’s new Facebook Credits virtual currency... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business New iPhone Game Teaches You How to Bartend Posted byby GamesBeat July 20, 2010 3 min Editor's note: I thought about retitling this one as New Game Promises to Rot Brain, Liver, but then I chickened out. -Demian Nimble Strong:... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Arkadium partners up with GSN as it pushes further into games on Facebook Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 20, 2010 2 min There’s a big pot of gold awaiting casual game publishers who properly adapt their games to Facebook. Online casual game maker Arkadium is making... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Big Fish Games hits 1 billion downloads of its casual games Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 19, 2010 1 min Big Fish Games said today its users have downloaded more than 1 billion copies of its casual games from its web portal. That’s a... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Sony’s alliance with Codename to generate new games for Sony Home virtual world Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 19, 2010 2 min Sony is announcing a deal with indie video-game label Codename to bring a series of independently developed social video games to the Sony Home... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Live Gamer signs up THQ as big game publishers embrace virtual goods Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 19, 2010 2 min Virtual goods company Live Gamer is announcing today that video game publisher THQ will use its virtual goods and micro-transaction platform for free-to-play online... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business N Gear 64: The Love Child of an N64 and a Game Gear? Posted byby GamesBeat July 19, 2010 1 min Modders are always cramming one video game system into another. Sometimes the results are great, and other times they are even better. The N... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Reviews Spotlight: Sin & Punishment, Dead Space, Hero of Sparta, and More Posted byby GamesBeat July 19, 2010 2 min Take just one look at this week's Reviews Spotlight and you'll notice that our beloved Bitmobbers are quite the busy bees, with challenging and... Continue Reading 2 min