Categories Posted inin Business Well, This is Random: Turn Based Battle Flash Game Posted byby GamesBeat August 25, 2009 1 min Japanese role-playing games have a bunch of silly clichés. Hell, the Final Fantasy series makes up about 60% of them (the other 39% going...
Categories Posted inin Business Oh, Snap x 1,500: This Lego Video Just Might Impress You Lots Posted byby GamesBeat August 25, 2009 1 min Yay! Another stop-motion Lego video. Where do people find time to do these things? It takes us at least 17 weeks to build a...
Categories Posted inin Business GestureTek's video game wall shows where gesture-based games can go Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 25, 2009 2 min If you want to see what video games might look like in the future, check out these pictures of the Child’s Play activity center...
Categories Posted inin Business Tetris Fan Has a Literal Blockhead Posted byby GamesBeat August 25, 2009 1 min Tetris is a fun little game. You drop blocks. We can’t think of anything more fun than that. Actually we can: Dropping blocks while...
Categories Posted inin Business Nintendo's Wii Sports Resort tops a million sold in a month Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 25, 2009 2 min Nintendo said today that it has sold more than 1 million Wii Sports Resort games in the U.S. alone since its launch on July...
Categories Posted inin Business The Analogous Relationship Between Games and Movies Posted byby GamesBeat August 25, 2009 4 min Editor’s note: Steve, a game programmer, goes behind the scenes to discuss similarities in movie and game production, and the role of indie game...
Categories Posted inin Business News Blips: PS3 Motion Controller Slated for Spring, BioShock Movie May Have a Director, Mass Effect DLC Details Leak, and More Posted byby GamesBeat August 25, 2009 2 min We really hope Sony is readying a Wii Sports rip-off for their new PlayStation 3 motion controller. We’re all about a little physical fun...
Categories Posted inin Business Smith & Tinker raises $29 million to launch Nanovor web game and toy Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 25, 2009 3 min In the biggest venture funding for a game company this year, Smith & Tinker disclosed today that it has raised $29 million to date...
Categories Posted inin Gaming Culture Thinking about video games as art? Some resources and thoughts to start you off. Posted byby GamesBeat August 25, 2009 3 min The following is my fleshed-out response to Video Game, Video Gimmick or Video Art? By Christopher Quach. I actually wrote this out completely then...
Categories Posted inin Technology How phones emerged as main computing devices, and why user interface will improve Posted byby GamesBeat August 24, 2009 2 min [This piece, written by Andrew Hsu (left), technology strategist at Synaptics, is the second in a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation....