Apple’s OS X Lion won’t run indie darling Minecraft
Gamers upgrading to Apple’s next Mac operating system, OS X Lion, won’t be able to play indie sandbox game Minecraft right away. Apple’s latest...
NaturalMotion shows off a cool horse game for the iPad (video)
Game developer NaturalMotion showed off a cool, super-realistic horse simulation game on the iPad this week that wowed attendees at the Casual Connect game conference...
Microsoft’s game business grows 30 percent as Xbox 360 gains share
Microsoft’s video game revenues grew 30 percent for the fourth fiscal quarter and generated a small profit for the period. The growth was propelled...
Meet Roku 2: a video streaming box with motion-controlled gaming (video)
Roku, a company that produces boxes that stream web content to televisions, announced today that it is unveiling a new lineup of devices that...
Hands-on with multiplayer Battlefield 3 on the PS 3
Battlefield 3 is one of the most-anticipated games of the year. The combat shooting video game isn’t coming out until Oct. 25, but Electronic...
Review: Shadows of the Damned — Video Gaming’s First Supergroup?
Supergroups sound like a great idea on paper: take established artists, clump them together in one band and let them collaborate without interference. However, the same reasons that make the supergroup concept so exciting are often their undoing.
Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games
Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed. As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was...
Why you nerds should stop hating sports games
Basketball game NBA 2k11 doesn’t start off with a title menu. It throws you straight into the classic 1991 championship game between the Chicago...
The 6 Most Valuable Games of All Time (Quantified by NBA Live 1995)
Do we really need a new sports game every single year? Do we really need an annual football game when EA (the developers) hold exclusivity rights with the NFL to ensure there is no competition within the market? The obvious answer here is no. No, we don’t need any more sports games now or ever.
Summer funk continues, video game sales topple 10 percent
In June, video game sales fell once again as the U.S. retail game industry continues to suffer from a low rate of new game releases,...