Video Game Tech Teaches U.S. Soldiers Language, Cultural Etiquette
Editor’s note: Chas looks at a language training sim used by the U. S. military that employs a game-inspired interface, and interviews the developer’s...
News Blips: SOCOM 4 Delayed, Online/Mobile Gaming, Promising PS3 Sales, and More
Perhaps SOCOM 4's delay is a good thing; I'm not sure if I wanted to shoot things with the Spin Pop-like PlayStation Move controller....
Passion Is the New Hardcore
Editor’s note: If we can’t use metrics such as time played or games owned to differentiate between hardcore and casual gamers, what can we...
Video Blips: Halo: Reach, Kane and Lynch 2, Red Dead Redemption, and More
These Halo: Reach trailers are becoming increasingly obscure. Who are these people? What is their mission? And why haven't they blown up anything yet?...
When Gamers Experience Tragedy
Editor's note: In his latest musing, Mike takes a sobering look at what happens when real-life tragedy strikes in a game with an online...
The Geekbox — Episode 76
The Geekbox — Episode 76 (2010-07-28) Wherein we discuss alien invaders, boring jobs, DeathSpank, Limbo, digital distribution ad nauseam, StarCraft II’s impending release, San...
Badvertising: The Art of Abusive Marketing
Editor's note: This is the final piece in Mitch's tryout for a writing position at Bitmob.com. Let us know what you think of his...
Realtime Worlds to launch Project MyWorld virtual world game platform
Realtime Worlds, the developers behind the recently released video games All Points Bulletin and Crackdown, are setting their sites on a new social experiment...
Why I might prefer the console version of Dragon Age 2
There has been a bit of a of a controversy over Dragon Age 2, or as some people appear to be calling it, "Dragon Effect", because of the changes to the game including the art style, the protagonist, and the difference between the PC and console version.
Nintendo reports a quarterly loss as Wii game sales tumble
Nintendo reported a loss for its first fiscal quarter, which ended June 30, as the Japanese company saw its Wii game sales wither. Kyoto,...