News Blips: EA sequel rumors, MS defends PC Kinect price, and The Old Republic’s first content update
Like my math test scores, annualized franchises have a problem with numbers. It won't be long before we're saddled with FIFA 3421 and Madden...
Slot machine maker International Game Technology pays $500M for Facebook casino game maker Double Down Interactive
Slot machine maker International Game Technology said Thursday it will buy Double Down Interactive for $500 million in cash. Double Down, based in Seattle,...
Video game sales drop 21 percent in December and fall 8 percent in 2011
Video game sales failed to live up to high hopes in December, with total industry sales falling 21 percent to $3.99 billion from $5.07...
Video Blips: The Old Republic, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Lollipop Chainsaw, and more
The Star Wars galaxy's reputation for mono-climate planets appears in full force in Star Wars: The Old Republic. I suppose it was only inevitable...
Sony exec says Playstation Move sales should have been better
Fergal Gara, Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment UK, has been talking about sales of the Playstation Move periphal, saying, “I’d say we have...
Dozens of Foxconn’s Xbox 360 production line workers threaten suicide
According to reports, dozens of workers at a Chinese factory that assembles Xbox 360 consoles threatened to jump off a dormitory roof. The rooftop...
Zynga hires away EA’s top mobile and social executive Barry Cottle
Social gaming giant Zynga has hired Electronic Arts’ top mobile and social executive Barry Cottle as Zynga’s new executive vice president of corporate and...
Virtual shopping with Bodymetrics will show how outfits fit on your body
Bodymetrics used the technology in Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing system for the Xbox 360 for a virtual shopping application. If it works, it could enhance...
Video game developer CD Projekt RED to stop legal threats against alleged pirates
CD Projekt RED, the Polish developer behind last year’s critically acclaimed PC game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, is relenting in its hunt...
Congressman uses gaming forum to help gather anti-SOPA support
Congressman Jared Polis made an impromptu appearance on the official forum for online game League of Legends yesterday, to help gather further support in...