Is Disney ready to buy social game company Playdom for more than $600M?
Rumors have surfaced that Disney is in the process of negotiating to buy social game company Playdom for more than $600 million. Techcrunch reported...
News Blips: FPS Interest Dwindling, Digital Game Sales, Non-Stop Gaming Record, and More
With the appeal of first-person shooters fading, I can finally climb to the top of the ranks in the now-empty Bad Company 2 leaderboards!...
Best Xbox360 Racing Game:Burnout Revenge
Burnout is by far more fun than any other racing game, basically for the fact that it is more arcade style of a game, no realism to be found here. Realism may be fun for some people, but it's usually for people who know all about cars, you know eats drinks and breaths cars.
What Problem With Games Journalism? Part 2
(This article continues a conversation began in Part 1 of this series, which you may read here.) Jim Sterling, another one of Ben Paddon’s...
Who Is the Gaming Press Speaking To?
Editor’s note: After looking at a recent Nielsen report, Dennis brings up some surprising questions about the games press, such as: Do readers even...
Video Blips: Okamiden, Ghost Trick, Sengoku Basara, and More
During my nightly hyperbaric chamber session, Capcom managed to choke my inbox with a slew of Comic-Con videos, starting with this Okamiden trailer! Video...
Microsoft's Xbox division posts $172M loss even as slim models start selling
Microsoft‘s Xbox business has been smooth sailing of late, and the lowered cost of production has enabled the company to introduce its new slim...
RockYou signs five-year deal to support Facebook Credits (exclusive)
Social game company RockYou and Facebook have signed a five-year agreement in which RockYou will exclusively support the social network’s virtual currency. That means...
Best Xbox 360 RPG: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The best Xbox 360 RPG: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Now, some of you dissenters out there sitting at your computers may be saying "There's no way Elder Scrolls can be the best it's way too old." Or "Bethesda released Fallout3, which is an improvement in every way to Oblivion."
Best Xbox 360 Downloadable Game: Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers
I’ll never play paper Magic again, and the money-trap element keeps me away from Magic Online, but I spent several weeks tapping islands and swinging with drakes into early summer mornings nonetheless thanks to Stainless Games’ Duels of the Planeswalkers.