EA to launch three big franchise games on the iPhone
Electronic Arts continues its offensive on the iPhone market today, announcing the impending launches of three major games for the device: Need for Speed...
Sony’s Home virtual world hits 10M users, debuts cool 3-D game and embraces virtual goods
Sony’s PlayStation Home virtual world on the PlayStation 3’s online network has built an audience of 10 million gamers in the past year, largely...
Let’s Go Find El Dorado: Oregon Trail with Bouncy Cows
Oregon Trail was one of the first popular games to insidiously slip education in alongside the fun. If Justin Smith’s all-action reimagining, Let’s Go Find...
Zynga and DST talk about their big funding deal in social games
Mark Pincus is at the center of the social gaming explosion. The chief executive of Zynga has the most popular games on Facebook, and...
Method to Our Madness: How We Choose the Games We Play
Editor’s note: Andrew doesn’t know what to do when it comes to figuring out whether or not he’ll like a game before he plunks...
Full-Length Zelda Movie Takes Fandom to a New Level
Fan fiction extends the life of our favorite movies, television shows, and video games, and provides an outlet for the more creatively minded among...
Frosmo launches tournament game portal on Facebook
There are huge numbers of games on Facebook, but Helsinki startup Frosmo, hopes it can grab some attention amid all the noise by doing...
Social game maker Zynga raises $180M from Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies
The Russians are coming. First, Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies bought a $200 million stake in Facebook. Now that same investor has invested $180...
Opening a Portal to the Honor Roll
Don’t put that copy of Portal away just yet — it could land you that A+ you’ve been aiming for in history class. According...
CO-OP: The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, PixelJunk Shooter, Super Meat Boy
Is December really the best time to hit the beach in Northern California? No. What kind of idiot would think that’s a good idea?...