in3Depth Systems grabs $10M funding for gesture-control systems
Gesture controls — where you wave your hands in the air and make something happen on a display — are coming on strong as...
The Indie Road Map (Part 1)
Now that you know what makes an indie game indie, it’s time to delve deeper into the genre.This month we’re going on a road...
PAX Prime 2010: Experience the Best Panels And Podcasts from Home
You could stand in line for four hours waiting to play Duke Nukem: Forever. You could wait in slightly shorter lines to enjoy an...
Video game sales fall 10 percent in August
It must have been too sunny in August to stay indoors and play video games. Overall U.S. console game sales fell 10 percent in...
Scoreloop adds payments to its Android social gaming suite
Android phone users are downloading lots of apps. But app developers would be happier if those users would pay for them. To help make...
Applifier fuels a “rebel alliance” against the evil social game empire on Facebook
In Facebook games, the big three rule. Zynga, Electronic Arts-Playfish, and Disney-Playdom have more than 331 million monthly active users on the social network,...
Xbox co-creator joins social network Bebo as chief product officer
Kevin Bachus is known as the co-creator of Microsoft’s Xbox video game console. At the time of its origin, most people thought the Xbox...
Looking Back: the Original Uncharted Is Stupid
Speaking purely of things I enjoy, Uncharted 2 is a great game. I’ve never been much for the first person shooters, but Uncharted 2 took all the obscure little unpleasantries out of the shoot-em-up equation and put what remained in a perspective that really clicked for me.
Blue Mars abducts journalist from Second Life; will other virtual citizens follow?
Wagner James Au has specialized in writing about 3D virtual worlds. Under the name Hamlet Au, he has reported from inside Linden Lab‘s virtual...
Characterizing Samus Aran: Sexism or Just Bad Writing?
Let’s face it: Women in video games usually don't come off so well. On the rare occasions when the villain hasn't kidnapped them, developers...