Game visionary Jesse Schell talks about the pleasure revolution
When Jesse Schell talks, the game industry listens. A talk he gave at the Dice Summit in 2010 garnered hundreds of thousands of views...
Bitmob Writing Challenge December 2011: Secret Santa
It's December, and that means the annual holiday exchange of presents is coming up. While material goods are easy to present to people in...
Skillville Games launches skill-based tournament gaming site
Skillville Games is kicking off a new skill-based tournament gaming web site today. The goal is to bring tournament gaming into the modern world,...
Microsoft upgrades Xbox Live with 40 entertainment services, live TV, and Kinect voice control
Xbox Live isn’t just an online gaming service anymore. Microsoft is announcing today that the new version of its Xbox Live user interface will...
How TV and Entertainment have evolved (infographic)
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console will be able to deliver 40 different TV entertainment services, the company said today. That means the console will...
How I was hacked – a tale of hijack, XBox Live and FIFA trading cards
This week, my Xbox Live account was hacked. This is the story of what happened, my response to it, and the questions about security...
Skyrim cartoon smites evil with friendship, serenading midget dragons
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim's gotten in deep with the gamer culture lately. Tons of player-created content and media churn out almost daily, providing...
Tetris for iOS relaunches with new fees & subscriptions that have users puzzled
EA has just relaunched its iOS version of Tetris [iTunes link], the popular puzzle game beloved of all kinds of players, from the casual...
Video Blips: Xenoblade Chronicles, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Scene It?: Movie Night, and Six Guns
Sometimes I watch video game trailers and think: "How do the people in this company's marketing department still have jobs?" I mean, if these...
Nintendo to release fan favorite Japanese video game Xenoblade Chronicles in America
Nintendo today announced that it is finally bringing critically-acclaimed Japanese role-playing game Xenoblade Chronicles to American gamers after fans campaigned online for its release....