Comic Jumper Loves Donuts?
Editor's note: Derek Lavigne helped Bitmob cover PAX East in Boston. Look for his stories — along with stories from me, intern Mike Minotti,...
PAX East 2010: The Good, The Bad, and Very Little Ugly
Ok, I'll get this out of the way immediately. The Inaugural PAX East was phenomenal, and when I say "very little ugly," I mean...
Modern Warfare 2: Stimulus Pack Giveaway and Game Night!
Modern Warfare 2 is a game of unquestionable quality. Unfortunately, no amount of plot twists or visual flare will stave off the eventual boredom...
GameCrush inundated with male gamers who want to play games with hot gamer babes
GameCrush evidently hit home with its offer to let gamers “be a player” and pay to play online games with attractive women. The company’s...
Game-based marketing takes off from frequent flyer programs to social media
Gabe Zichermann coined the term Funware to describe the use of video game mechanics in everyday, non-game applications. It was a big idea that...
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 map pack launches with glitch, competition from Bad Company 2
The modern combat brawl started anew today as multiplayer map packs arrived for both Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Battlefield Bad Company...
The Only 4chan Thread That’ll Leave You in Tears
4chan has cultivated an appropriately strange legacy. Often labelled the “birthplace of memes,” the website plays host to life-ruining pranks and morally depraved artwork....
One Of The Best Games You Never Played… Startopia
Whilst it's true that the opening movie parodies 2001: A Space Odyssey and therefore only actually works as humour if you've seen the film (which, at the time, I had not… meaning the jokes sailed over my head), Startopia is a game that rewards the open mind.
Investment banker predicts big investments, mergers in game market
Tim Merel sees lots of action coming in the video game industry as it expands to become one of the biggest entertainment industries in...
Jambool hires marketing veteran from Electronic Arts for social app payments platform
Game veterans are following the gold, leaving traditional game companies for the many upstarts that have sprung up around the social networking economy. Today,...