EA Sports Active 2.0 to get heartbeat sensors and online sharing (video)
Heartbeat sensors took center stage in Electronic Arts’ preview of its sports game line-up this evening at the Game Developers Conference. EA Sports Active 2.0...
Video Blips: Final Fantasy 13: First 30 Minutes, Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition, FIFA World Cup: South Africa, and More
I should've known that something weird was going on today when my bowl of alphabet cereal spelled out "those Framerated guys will confuse the...
History, RPGs, and the Struggle for Mainstream Appeal
Editor's note: Brian argues that there is a strong connection between the public's disinterest in academic subjects — most notably history — and the...
Activision Blizzard shows off footage from True Crime reboot
Re-entering the highly competitive “sandbox” crime genre made famous by Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto series, Activision Blizzard’s Activision Publishing division today showed live gameplay...
The ‘Mario of Facebook’ is yet to come
Gareth Davis, the platform manager in charge of Games at Facebook, delivered his keynote today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Davis...
EA signs baseball star Curt Schilling to make fantasy role-playing game
Electronic Arts has teamed up with baseball star Curt Schilling to make a game. But this isn’t a sports game. It’s a deal with...
Frosmo expands into the Asian casual game tournament market
It’s easy to see why Frosmo, a Helsinki-based company that makes a tournament platform for social games, wants to expand into the Asian game...
Revised video game financing list: 115 game companies raised $663.1M in 2009
[Update: We’ve added our list with new fundings we’ve heard about from readers and Engage Digital Media]. Game startups continued to score big investments...
Countdown to GamesBeat@GDC on Wednesday
We’ve come down to the wire for the GamesBeat@GDC conference, which takes place on Wednesday at rooms 305/307 in the Moscone Convention Center in...
SiBEAM raises $36.5M for wireless video transfer technology
SiBEAM has a big job to do networking homes so they can wirelessly transfer high-definition video from one place in the house to another....