Zynga’s new funding values CityVille maker at $10B
It looks like early reports about social gaming giant Zynga’s new funding round were a little conservative. Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal...
The Geekbox – Episode 105
The Geekbox — Episode 105 (2011-02-16) Wherein we discuss Amsterdam, rare stuff, Pokemon Black and White, achievement-whoring, awesome copy protection, Ryan’s ultimate triumph over...
Calling all gamers! U.S. video games sales dip 5 percent in January
Video game players may have been too busy playing with their Christmas toys last month, as U.S. sales of video games fell 5 percent...
OpenFeint Connect lets gamers socialize across different smartphones
If your friend has an Android phone and you have an iPhone, it isn’t that easy to play a mobile game together. But with...
Kill the messenger: Why Fox News is the enemy, not its sources
A week ago, most of the video-game community had no idea who Carole Lieberman was. Now, we've labeled her public enemy number one and...
Score one for Microsoft as Scoreloop backs Windows Phone 7
Scoreloop is announcing today that it will support Windows Phone 7 as part of its cross-platform social gaming ecosystem. That means that developers can...
Apple vs. Sony vs. Nintendo: How the iPhone wins
With Sony's Next Generation Portable project and the Nintendo 3DS on the horizon, it looks like the battle for the handheld market is heating...
The PC is not doomed
As a gamer who loves his PC, I wish that the industry and consumers paid much more attention to the platform that gave birth...
Sony’s S1 PlayStation tablet won’t look like any other
Sony has been oddly quiet about its tablet plans, but now there’s word that it’s working on an intriguingly designed Android tablet that will...
Paid apps are on the rise in the maturing Android Market
The Android Market used to be a disaster for paid apps, at least compared to the heavy preponderance of paid apps on Apple’s App...