The Joy of Pressing Start
Feature films, best-selling novels, video games, and blog posts all have one thing in common. No, it's not that I'm shoe-horning them into the...
Video games continue a steep decline in September, but Halo: Reach blasts into orbit
The U.S. video game industry saw its sales fall 8 percent in September compared to a year ago, according to the latest sales report...
Virtual goods sales are overtaking ad revenues on the iPhone
Virtual goods are becoming pretty real on the iPhone. Revenue from the sale of virtual goods is now overtaking ad revenue on the iPhone,...
Netflix’s Playstation 3 app goes disc-free, leapfrogs Xbox 360 with 1080p HD video, surround sound
The battle for the best Netflix experience in your living room rages on. Sony announced today that Playstation 3 owners will no longer need...
DiscoveryBeat 2010’s latest speakers: Kleiner Perkins’ Bing Gordon and more
Bing Gordon is sitting pretty in the new gaming gold rush that’s all social and mobile. A partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,...
News Blips: EA’s “Culture of Fear”, Gran Turismo 5 Delayed, Sonic Mimics Mario, and More
Remember EA Spouse, the disgruntled EA employee's wife whose blog brought about higher salaries and overtime pay for the company's workers? Well, consider EA...
Medal of Honor Singleplayer Review
Medal of Honor is a game that I value, having so many fond memories of it as a child. I was slightly apprehensive towards the new game upon its announcement because, frankly, I considered the series to be dead and buried, never to return after the success of other such first person shooters.
Write Trigger: Get Paid To Write Now
Write Trigger: GET PAID NOW Lots of you want to write about videogames, but playing forty hours a week and finding all the...
Facebook Credits expands reach globally in deal with PlaySpan
Facebook has teamed up with social monetization firm PlaySpan to expand its reach to more users around the globe for its Facebook Credits virtual...
Atari: The original lean startup
(Editor’s note: Sylvie Leotin is the president at Atelier Leotin, a boutique consultancy firm. A modified version of this story originally appeared on her...