The lesson of gaming: Why do we have to pay people to work?
Byron Reeves and J. Leighton Read are co-authors of Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses...
OnLive’s Steve Perlman to keynote at GamesBeat@GDC
Can you really play high-end games on your modest PC, with no downloads? That’s a multi-billion dollar question. Entrepreneur Steve Perlman wants to make...
The Geekbox — Episode 48
The Geekbox – Episode 48 (2010-01-14) Wherein we discuss Torchwood, Tom Green’s sheer idiocy, Demon’s Souls, the Goonies, Bayonetta, Star Trek Online, the A-Team...
Down, Up, Circle, Triangle: The History of a Button Masher
Editor’s note: Adara asks us to reconsider our views on button-mashing. Not only can it be helpful, but sometimes it’s actually necessary. I can’t...
Infographic Invasion: (Semi-)Startling Statistics About Gaming
After delivering a comprehensive timeline of the industry’s development, the folks at OnlineEducation have decided to top themselves with an even more compelling infographic....
Guess Who: Round Nine
OK, smartypants — ready for another round of Guess Who? Well, ya better be, because the video game character below is ready to rumble....
That screeching sound? U.S. video game industry sales decline in 2009
U.S. video game sales screeched to a halt in 2009, falling 8.6 percent to $20.2 billion from $22.11 billion as the recession held gamers...
Game venture capitalist and Electronic Arts trade barbs
Mitch Lasky sold his mobile entertainment business, Jamdat Mobile, to Electronic Arts for $680 million in late 2005. He left the company a year...
Booyah’s MyTown steams ahead in location-based gaming with 450,000 users
Booyah, the mobile gaming company full of alums from Blizzard Entertainment, just rocketed ahead in the world of location-based gaming. Their MyTown app, which...
Venture capitalists are bullish on the future of game funding
Game investing is still going strong, even though it did take a hit during the recession. We calculated that game companies raised $600.5 million...