Announcing first speakers at GamesBeat 2011 conference on mobile games
Drum roll please. The first announced speakers at our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference include Steve Perlman, chief executive of games-on-demand firm OnLive; Bart...
Ubisoft announces Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Online free-to-play game
Diving into the free-to-play game market, Ubisoft is announcing today it is developing Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Online. The game is an attempt to...
After 15-year gestation, Duke Nukem Forever goes gold
Yes, hell has frozen over. Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold, meaning it’s ready for production and on schedule to ship on June 14...
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 trailer debuts
Activision Blizzard released its not-so-secret revelation today: a trailer for its next blockbuster game, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, which debuts Nov. 8....
Omar Hamoui’s Churn Labs creates Gnonstop Gnomes
Omar Hamoui sold AdMob to Google in 2009 for $750 million. Now he’s back — with gnomes. The Gnonstop Gnomes social app is the...
Fail states: To live and die in L.A. Noire…and Bumpy Road
A confession, first: for a video-game hobbyist of some 22-odd years, I am terrible at them. I can count the number of games I...
Tapulous launches Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Revenge app for the iPhone
Disney’s Tapulous mobile game division has launched Born This Way Revenge, a music-tapping game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app is one...
Support GameDay 2011!
GameDay 2011, a fundraiser put together by gamers who support the International Video Game Hall of Fame and Museum, will take place during Memorial...
Can e-sports be bigger than golf? (Q&A)
Justin.tv, a site that lets web browsers watch and publish live video streams, started recruiting additional developers to build an exclusive electronic sports live-streaming...
Innovative games are “broken” for a reason
When I look at a game like Brink with its arguably ground-breaking potential buried beneath a thick layer of technical issues like bugs, glitches,...