GameGround snags $4.1 million from Sequoia for gamer services
Several prominent Israelis have formed a new game company, GameGround, with $4.1 million in funding from Sequoia Capital. The company was started in 2007...
Microsoft games exec details how Project Natal was born
Microsoft threw one of the biggest curve balls at the E3 video game conference on Monday as it announced a new way to control...
Sony shows off its own motion-tracking technology for games
Not to be outdone by Microsoft or Nintendo, Sony is showing off its own futuristic motion-tracking technology today. Richard Marks, creator of the Sony...
Sony launching PSP Go handheld in October, shows off new PS 3 titles
Sony confirmed its worst kept secret of the E3 video game trade show. It announced today its PlayStation Portable handheld, the PSP Go, will...
Small Worlds and Hi5 combine virtual world and social networking
In a marriage of games and social networks, SmallWorlds has teamed up with social network Hi5 to open up SmallWorlds’ cartoon-like virtual world to...
The coolest video from the first day of the E3 video game show
The coolest video on Monday at the E3 games conference — one of the video game industry’s biggest gatherings — was this cinematic video...
After 25 years, Tetris has sold 125 million copies
Twenty five years ago, a 29-year-old Russian mathematician loosed Tetris upon the world. Now the game has sold more than 125 million copies —...
Ubisoft lives and breathes the convergence of games and movies
Ubisoft showed off its work with one of Hollywood’s most technology-minded directors, James Cameron, at a press conference at the E3 game conference today in Los Angeles. ...
Electronic Arts hits extremes with cute games for girls and hardcore violent titles with brothels
[Updated with video of the Old Republic game] Game maker Electronic Arts is showing off 12 games at the E3 conference today, and they...
Microsoft shows off motion-sensing game control, Project Natal
Trying to one-up Nintendo at the E3 game conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft showed off a game-control scheme where you use your...