PAX Prime 2011: Citizen Skywatch seeks recruits with fantastic immersion
Showing off a game usually follows an established procedure: Surround the curious with enthusiastic PR folk, jam in enough TVs blaring the latest trailer...
News Blips: No more Shepard after Mass Effect 3, Portal 2 favored on PC, no Minecraft on Steam, and more
Saying goodbye to a character you've known for years always hurts. Don't cry, for Commander Shepard lives on…in your heart. Seriously, he gets a...
Video Blips: Firefall, SOL: Exodus, Crimson Alliance, and more
I wonder if mankind can successfully exist in the future without suddenly unearthing an evil race of insectoids. It seems to happen quite frequently....
Hackers steal 21,000 passwords from Star Wars game fan site
A Star Wars Galaxies fan site got hacked today and thieves stole 21,000 email addresses and 23,000 passwords. And judging from an analysis of...
Zynga lines up its next social game: Adventure World
Zynga just revealed a teaser for its next big social game, an Indiana Jones-inspired creation called Adventure World. The video trailer on the new...
OnLive to power on-demand game demos at game fan site GameSpot
Video game news site GameSpot will start offering visitors the ability to instantly test games online with live game demos. The free demos will...
Indie darling Minecraft “incompatible” with Steam digital distribution service
Indie darling game Minecraft, which has more than 10 million users, is “incompatible” with wildly popular game digital distribution service Steam because game’s secondary...
Woozworld raises $6M to take tween virtual world into mobile
Woozworld, maker of a user-generated virtual world for kids ages 9 to 14, has raised $6 million. The company will use the money to...
Otoy’s cloud tools can render stunningly realistic video (exclusive)
Filmmakers and game creators would love to create animations so realistic that they look like they were produced inside a Star Trek Holodeck, the...
Pretzel yourself with TwisterMania on Kinect
Some game ideas go together like peanut butter and jelly. That’s what comes to mind with the combination of Microsoft‘s Kinect motion-sensing system and...