Video Blips: Portal 2, Gears of War 3, Dragon’s Dogma, and more
In 1953, Portal 2's Aperture Science was founded as a shower curtain manufacturer. After a deadly exposure to mercury, founder Cave Johnson changed tacks...
World of Tanks takes online game graphics to a new level
One of the coolest hardcore online games to come out recently is World of Tanks, which lets you drive World War II tanks around...
Frozenbyte bets on Humble Bundle to launch games
Y Combinator-backed Humble Bundle is launching its second official batch of games that allows users to set their own price for the cost of...
Online game startup Tiny Speck raises $10.7M from Andreessen Horowitz and Accel
Tiny Speck said today it raised $10.7 million in the second round of funding for its online game business from Andreessen Horowitz and Accel....
PlayJam launches games on LG’s smart TVs
Games are migrating to all platforms. The latest example is a deal between PlayJam and LG to put casual games on smart TVs and...
Victory dance? Ubisoft celebrates as music games shift from guitars to dance
Music game fans have shifted their collective taste from Guitar Hero style games to dance games, thanks to the new motion-sensing technologies that make kinetic games much more fun. No one is happier about that than Ubisoft, the French video game publisher that dominates the dance genre.
China’s online game market to grow to $8B by 2014
China’s online game market grew 25 percent to $5 billion in 2010 and could reach $8 billion in 2014, according to Pearl Research. That...
How a PC gamer learned to love the PlayStation 3
Many gamers have fond childhood memories of Mario or Sonic. My youth, however, was filled with space marines on Mars and tech trees. When...
Will Microsoft launch free-to-play games on Xbox Live?
Embracing a new business model, Microsoft is expected to make free-to-play games available on its Xbox Live online gaming service next year. The move...
New Black Ops map pack is confirmed for May 3
See our updated post on the map pack debuting today. Activision Blizzard confirmed today that it will launch its Call of Duty Black Ops...