Do Horror Games Need Tangible Threats to Be Threatening?
Death and evisceration are common tropes in horror media, but those aren’t the big reasons we are afraid of these experiences. They are the...
Week in review: Call of Duty Black Ops shows games can beat movies
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Review: Call of...
News Blips: Black Ops Wii Update, Bungie Beta Testers, Costume Quest DLC, and More
I think you'd have to be crazy to opt for the Wii version of Black Ops, but even if you're loony, Treyarch has your...
OpenFeint finds a way to co-exist with Apple’s Game Center for the iPhone
When Apple launched its Game Center social platform for iPhone games, it looked like a supporting tool such as the OpenFeint platform was doomed....
The Geekbox – Episode 92
The Geekbox — Episode 92 (2010-11-17) Wherein we discuss Internet video, the end of Doctor Who: Series 5, zombie movies, zombie games, Harry Potter,...
News Blips: PSP2 Dev Kit Leaked, Portal 2 Delayed, No Kinect in Gears of War 3, and More
There are only so many features you can load onto a handheld before it starts to look like something out of a science-fiction movie....
Video Blips: Deus Ex, Gran Turismo 5, The Hunter, and More
I wonder when the whole "corporations are evil" shtick got permanently associated with cyberpunk games. Who cares as long as we have something to...
The who’s who of the digerati: A gargantuan Web 2.0 Summit photo gallery
The Web 2.0 Summit drew the who’s who of the digerati to San Francisco this week. Chief among them were conference organizers Tim O’Reilly...
Breaking all video game records, Call of Duty Black Ops sells $650M in five days
Call of Duty Black Ops has broke another record. The combat video game sold more than $650 million in its first five days of...
Scoreloop loving 18M subs a week as Android honeymoon continues
Ah, newlyweds. Cross platform social gaming platform Scoreloop is still going strong in its six-month lucrative partnership with smartphone Android, announcing today that is taking...