How Character Names Change the Narrative Experience
Editor's note: Some centuries ago, Shakespeare rhetorically asked, "What's in a name?" While the Bard may have been referring to love and the insignificance...
Hulu Plus comes to the Xbox Live online game service
It took a while, but Microsoft and Hulu have confirmed rumors that Hulu Plus will be available as a subscription service on the Xbox...
Social game firm Crowdstar embraces Facebook Credits in five-year agreement
Crowdstar is giving a big endorsement to Facebook Credits. The social gaming company has made a five-year commitment to using Facebook’s virtual currency. The...
Game critics nominate the best of E3 2010 (reader poll)
The Game Critics Awards group has presented its list of nominees for the best games of E3 2010. Each year, this list turns out...
With Harry Potter release, OnLive shows it isn’t just about old games
OnLive, the games-on-demand company that launched last week, said today that it has released the Lego: Harry Potter Years 1-4 video game on its...
Motion-sensor chip maker InvenSense files to go public
Motion-sensing chip maker InvenSense has filed papers to go public in an initial public offering. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based InvenSense makes gyroscope chips that can sense...
Portal 2: Say Hello to Wheatley
Our E3 preview of Portal 2 may have whetted your appetite, but a few more surprises are in store for Valve's upcoming puzzler sequel...
Worlize expands team for social gaming platform
Worlize has created a social gaming and chat platform that users can modify to create their own custom two-dimensional games, and now it is...
Red Dead Redemption frees Take-Two from the Grand Theft Auto curse (interview)
For many years, Grand Theft Auto has been a huge boon for Take-Two Interactive, selling tens of millions of copies and generating billions in...
The Pit of Death: The Ultimate in Retro Difficulty
The next time that 12-year-old punk down the street bad mouths 8- and 16-bit Mario titles and talks about how hard games are today,...