How a smart marketing campaign turned Modern Warfare 2 into a monster hit
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 was the most successful game launch of all time, based on how quickly it sold 15 million units...
Patch society: What’s wrong with updating games after release?
Game updates are a wonderful thing. They fix software glitches. Balance online play. Breath new life into aging games. And even fix consoles. Obviously...
Here comes a flood of iPad games
For all the talk about the Apple iPad as a cool e-book reader, I’d like to remind everyone that the most popular of the...
PAX East: By the Numbers
Editor's note: Brian describes his PAX East experience the way any good geek should: by crunching some hard numbers. Check out his tabulation of...
Ecco the Dolphin Returns…with a Vengeance!
Today is the first of April, and as expected, the news is quite bizarre. But among the day's strange press releases and announcements is...
Google brings Quake 2 to the browser with HTML5
Thus far, we’ve mainly seen the up and coming HTML5 web standard used for video. A bunch of Google engineers wanted to see what...
Coming Home to PAX East
Editor's note: PAX East sounds like it was a ton of fun. But Pete thinks it's even more than that: He thinks it's a...
(Updated) Squeaky-clean offer firm gWallet gets into trouble
Social gaming ran into its biggest scandal last fall, when allegations surfaced that offer companies were defrauding consumers by presenting them with less-than-savory advertising...
Flickr founder lands $5M for new game startup
Tiny Speck is a game company founded by Stewart Butterfield, one of the cofounders of photo-sharing site Flickr. Tiny Speck has only put out...
Sony’s PlayStation marketing machine now selling the digital living room
The living room is getting awfully crowded now that the Internet has come into it. But Sony is trying to take advantage of all...