News Blips: Apple Gaming Console, Left 4 Dead DLC, New Game From Braid Creator
Oh, boy — not the Apple making a gaming console rumor again. This is getting about as cliche as any rumor involving a price...
What the Hell: Sex in the Mushroom Kingdom
So we all know that Mario and Princess Peach are a couple. But what we didn’t want to know is what goes on once...
Bias in Gaming Media Part 1: It’s Normal for the Game Press to Have Bias
Editor’s note: Experiences and expectations shape people, and those experiences and expectations play a role in how they evaluate things, be it making career...
PlaySpan says there are 50 ways to pay for your lover’s virtual flowers
Buying your love a virtual rose is a happening thing to do these days on social networks such as Facebook. And now there are...
Namco hires an iPhone veteran to run its Apple games business
In a sign that console game companies care about new platforms such as the iPhone, Namco Networks has hired a former Apple producer as...
Hackers create robots, er, “helpers,” to automate play in World of Warcraft
[Updated with Blizzard response] Hacking World of Warcraft is like a national pastime among game-oriented hackers. So it’s no surprise that hackers have figured...
Caustic Graphics rallies developers to its 3-D graphics technology
Caustic Graphics announced today that it’s signed up a number of software companies to adapt their software to its CausticRT development platform — a...
An Indie Developer’s Idea to Make the PSP Go Awesome
Editor’s note: Julian makes the case for the PSP Go as an Apple App Store-like open platform, but he isn’t just writing from the...
Splitscreen vs. the Internet: Is Online Play Really Better?
My brothers never took to gaming as much as I did, but growing up, whenever we got together (they're both much older than I am), we always enjoyed firing up a game console and playing some good old-fashioned splitscreen multiplayer.
An Ode to Ford
As I write this, Bitmob managing editor Greg Ford is likely settling into his new digs in…well, somewhere east of San Francisco in order...