My First Experiential Game: Exploring Homelessness in a Virtual Space
Editor's note: Someone's made-up game isn't normally something I would think to promote, but Brian's idea is a little larger than that. He thinks...
The game empire strikes back at Infinity Ward co-founders
Activision Blizzard activated its legal machine gun today, filing a countersuit against the co-founders of its Infinity Ward studio, which makes the smash hit...
Social-game platform makers: “Welcome, Apple. Seriously.”
On Friday, Apple announced that it would create its own social platform for games, dubbed Game Center. It’s a place where iPhone, iPod Touch,...
Kontagent gets 50M users for Facebook analytics tool, raises $1.25M
Kontagent is announcing today that its Facebook viral analytics tool is being used by companies with 50 million users on the social network. It...
Video Games May Help Prevent Collateral Damage
After WikiLeaks released footage that appears to show an AH-64 Apache gunner firing upon and killing Iraqi civilians, Julian Assange, a co-founder of the...
News Blips: iPhone Gaming Network, Hideo Kojima’s Console Predictions, Starcraft 2 Collector’s Edition, and More
Wouldn't it be frustrating to be interrupted by a phone call while gaming on your iPhone, because you're playing games on a device that...
Zynga’s Treasure Isle helps reverse a slide in users
Zynga‘s newest game, Treasure Isle, has quickly grown to 4.3 million users since the company announced the game a week ago. It’s a clone...
Video Blips: Transformers: The War for Cybertron, Red Dead Redemption Multiplayer, Alan Wake, and More
What's better than a bunch of bipedal vehicles blowing the crap out of each other? The same bipedal vehicles blowing the same crap out...
CONNECTIONS: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase
Over 40 percent of U.S. broadband households are very positive on TV Everywhere services — offerings that let cable customers view TV programs online...
Gore in Video Games: Innovation, not Excess
Editor's Note: Nathan gives us his view on the topic of gore in video games. While I do agree that realistic physics for blood...