Categories Posted inin Technology Can Facebook help apps get iPhone distribution? Posted byby GamesBeat July 17, 2009 2 min One of the biggest problems for iPhone apps is finding users — the main way growth happens now is, paradoxically, by climbing the charts...
Categories Posted inin Business Video game sales plunge for 4th month in a row Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 16, 2009 2 min U.S. video game revenues fell more than analysts expected in June, thanks to a dearth of new titles during the typically slow summer months,...
Categories Posted inin Business Namibians come up with clever Sudoku game for multiple devices Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 16, 2009 2 min I’ve never written about a game company in Africa. Here’s a first. Gamecarte of Windhoek, Namibia, has come up with a clever twist on...
Categories Posted inin Business Daily Blips: No Black Wii For Us, WoW iPhone App, NPDs, and More Posted byby GamesBeat July 16, 2009 2 min We don’t know why Nintendo doesn’t like colors. We do. Nothing makes us gayer than seeing a beautiful rainbow of colorful consoles. News Blips:...
Categories Posted inin Business Blueberry Garden: The Girl and the Game Posted byby GamesBeat July 16, 2009 3 min Editor’s Note: A really fun, whimsical "review" by Mike McLeod. It’s really fascinating to see how the game basically tricked him into caring for...
Categories Posted inin Business What the Hell: iPhone Portal Could Be a Convincing Lie Posted byby GamesBeat July 16, 2009 1 min Seems like everything is coming to the iPhone these days. Name a game and it’s probably already on Apple’s fancy yap device. Come on,...
Categories Posted inin Business The Racial Slur That Changed Games Journalism Posted byby GamesBeat July 16, 2009 5 min Editor’s note: I was hesitant to promote this story at first. These days, people spend more time engaging in “New Games Journalism” and less...
Categories Posted inin Gaming Culture One On One Arcade Robot Mayhem: Now On XBLA (Virtual-On: Oratorio Tangram Review) Posted byby GamesBeat July 16, 2009 4 min Back when American arcades were beginning their slow decline, there were a few types of games I turned to. I mostly played racing, fighting,...
Categories Posted inin Business Bill Gates says Project Natal will bring gesture controls to Windows 7 Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 15, 2009 1 min Microsoft made a big splash when it talked about bringing its gesture-control system, Project Natal, to the Xbox 360 in games coming next year....
Categories Posted inin Gaming Culture Neotokyo: Review Posted byby GamesBeat July 15, 2009 3 min Most mod teams these days want everyone to know about an upcoming release; they advertise updates and pictures of models and maps on a...