GamesBeat vs. VentureBeat: Mario Party 9 Showdown (video)
VentureBeat reporter Meghan Kelly had been talking smack to the GamesBeat crew about her “unparalleled” Mario Party skills for a while now. She even...
Vox Media raises $17M to fund big-budget news sites
Online media publisher Vox Media — owner of tech news site The Verge, sports blog network SB Nation, and game news site Vox Games...
Xbox 360 gets HBO Go support just in time for Game of Thrones
HBO has added support for its HBO Go streaming service to Xbox 360, giving gamers yet another reason not to turn off their console...
Hulu Plus lands on Nintendo Wii, 3DS support coming soon
Nintendo’s Wii game console gained some significant ground as a streaming video set-top box with the announcement of a new Hulu Plus channel launching...
Jay Mohr: “Ted Price tried to buy my wife” (video interview)
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/36649937 w=640&h=376] Comedian/actor/grand wizard Jay Mohr was in Las Vegas this week to host the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards for his seventh...
Netflix backpedals on video game rental plans
Netflix is no longer planning to offer a video game disc rental-by-mail service to complement its DVD-by-mail and streaming video subscription service, the company...
Yes, ITV really did use video game footage during an IRA propaganda piece
ITV, one of the United Kingdom’s major commercial television networks, has been found guilty of deceptively using video game footage during what it claimed to...
Image Metrics sells its Faceware face animation technology to spin-off
Image Metrics said it has sold off the Faceware professional facial animation software to a new spin-off company Faceware Technologies. Santa Monica-based Image Metrics...
SoftKinetic brings Kinect-like controls to the PC (video)
SoftKinetic is one of many sensor companies promoting 3D cameras in the wake of Microsoft’s success with the Kinect motion sensors for the Xbox...
HP unveils giant 11-feet by 7-feet touchscreens for retailers and businesses (video)
Hewlett-Packard sure knows how to build big stuff. Today, the world’s biggest computer maker is taking the wraps off its wall-sized 132-inch touchscreen displays...