DiscoveryBeat 2010: Final agenda at a glance
If you haven’t heard our trumpets blasting over the past few weeks, you may be interested to know that DiscoveryBeat 2010 is coming up...
Finding Fear: Putting the Horror Back in Horror Games
Ghosts aren't scary — annoying maybe, but not scary. Not in any practical sense anyway. Maybe I'm weird, but the things that terrify me...
The Geekbox – Episode 87
The Geekbox — Episode 87 (2010-10-14) Wherein we discuss forum ragenautting, attention spans, Dead Rising 2, quick-time events, Heavy Rain, Plants vs. Zombies for...
Video game investors seek to fund games via film financing methods
Two companies hope to bankroll new video games with a financing method that has been used to underwrite billions of dollars for film productions....
Gamers spent $2.6B to $2.9B in first half on digital online goods
While sales of video games in physical stores is declining, the amount spent online on digital goods for games is skyrocketing. Market researcher NPD...
Angry Birds set to flutter onto Android phones
Angry Birds broke all of the records on the Apple App Store in the past 10 months, selling more than 7 million copies. Soon,...
Game Characters Who Tweet: Over-the-Top Actioners — Kratos, Bayonetta, Dante
Is your Twitter feed suffering from a lack of swords, guns, or monster hunting? Need more ballistic and hack-and-slash fighting in your life? This...
News Blips: Reach Map Pack, Netflix Native on PS3, Innovative Console Games, and More
Those Spartans in Halo: Reach get all the luck — cutting-edge weaponry, awesome vehicles, and now new locales to wage war in. News Blips:...
Video Blips: New Vegas, Red Dead Redemption, Fear 3, and More
What happens in New Vegas, stays in New Vegas…especially if the city surrounded by a post-apocalyptic, radioactive wasteland. Video Blips: • The Strip is...
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...