Blizzard cuts deal with NetEase.com to take Starcraft II to China
The original “StarCraft” is one of the most successful video games of all time. The sci-fi real-time strategy game debuted more than a decade...
AMD takes the single-card speed crown from Nvidia with dual-graphics card
Tipping the see-saw battle yet again in the battle for the hearts of hardcore PC gamers, Advanced Micro Devices is announcing a PC graphics...
Wicked Interactive will launch online games from Korean publisher
Online game companies are coming out of the woodworks. One strategy is to take the newly popular “free to play” model from Asia and...
Knowledge Adventure raises $5 million to make jump from kids games to virtual worlds
Plenty of companies are making the shift from video games to virtual worlds. Knowledge Adventure is the latest as it announced today it has...
Nvidia encourages new generation of visual computing startups
I can remember the first interview I did with Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, back when the company was coming out of stealth...
MyGameMug categorizes and matches gamers
Gamers spend a lot their time online and communicate often with friends. That’s why everybody wants to rope them into a social network. But...
Total Immersion blurs real and virtual in theme parks
Home video game consoles became so good at 3-D graphics that they nearly wiped out the location-based electronic entertainment business. But Total Immersion believes...
Will Martian water discovery fuel interest in sci-fi Blue Mars world?
The discovery of water on Mars might spur a lot of interest in the science fiction dream of terraforming the Red Planet into a...
Intel to Nvidia: It’s time for you to die, Mr. Bond
Intel is in that part of the James Bond movie where the bad guy talks about how he’s going to eliminate Bond, which in...
Q&A: Microsoft game exec John Schappert talks about Xbox Live, Netflix deal, and Blu-ray
John Schappert is the corporate vice president who runs pieces of Microsoft’s game business such as its Xbox Live online gaming service. One of...