Sifteo launches intelligent blocks as a new form of entertainment
Sifteo, a table-top game startup, is announcing today that it has begun selling intelligent blocks known as Sifteo Cubes. These devices are like little...
Zynga steals another executive from Electronic Arts
It looks like Zynga isn’t done poaching executives from rival Electronic Arts. Jeff Karp, executive vice president for a major EA division, is leaving...
Confirmed: Nintendo 3DS price lowered early, plus you get 20 free games
Some Target and Walmart locations have lowered the price of the Nintendo 3DS a few days early, giving consumers a small window to buy...
News Blips: GameFly digital download, GTA 5 predictions, Team Bondi sells assets, and more
The convenience of digital downloads allows lazy PC gamer schlubs like me an excuse not to step foot in the nearest retail shop. We’re too...
THQ’s loss will likely be social and mobile gaming’s gain
THQ laid off more than 200 employees today as it tried to realign its workforce in light of disappointing sales of its most recent...
Video Blips: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dead Island, Guild Wars 2, and more
If Deus Ex: Human Revolution teaches us anything, it's that the future brings rampant technological advances, corporate discord, and some foreign-sounding concept called "conversation."...
When playing Heroes of Newerth, beware of trolls
What did I have to lose when I tried a newly free-to-play hybrid of real-time strategy and tower defense? My dignity, apparently. Let me...
Video game rentals move online as GameFly follows Netflix
GameFly, the top video game rental subscription service, is following in the footsteps of movie service Netflix by launching a digital distribution business. Customers...
With EA’s The Sims Social, has Zynga met its match? (hands on)
The Sims, a life simulation game, is one of Electronic Arts’ most successful franchises. The company has sold more than 140 million copies of...
Organic Motion launches new platform to capture motion
Organic Motion is launching a new generation of its motion-capture system for getting an accurate 3D digital representation of a human body in motion,...