The empire strikes back: Hulu blocks RSS access for Boxee
Well, that didn’t last long. This morning, Boxee, a company that offers a way to bring online video to your TV, brought back Hulu...
The mad rush into used games
Amazon.com launched a used game sales service today where gamers can trade in used games for store credit. Toys ‘R Us is also starting...
Shake it up baby with The Beatles: Rock Band game
Apple Corps, Harmonix and MTV Games announced that they will release a new music video game, The Beatles: Rock Band, in September. That should...
Electronic Arts veteran launches new iPhone game company Portable Zoo
A generation ago in the 1980s, Don Traeger helped Electronic Arts rewrite the rules of sports video games with the launch of EA Sports....
Newsweek’s N’gai Croal crosses line from critic to game design advisor
Think of N’gai Croal as the game industry’s version of movie critic Roger Ebert, with dreadlocks. As the game critic at Newsweek magazine and...
DEMO: SmartyCard lets kids learn stuff and earn stuff
SmartyCard has a smart way to get kids to learn via its reward-based quizzing approach. The company, which is showing off the service at...
DEMO: Coveroo lets you personalize your cell phones with laser imagery
At DEMO today, Coveroo is launching a service to personalize cell phones and other gadgets with laser imagery. Now you can have anything from...
AMD divides itself in two, hoping to gang up on Intel
After a couple of years of preparation, Advanced Micro Devices is finally going to split itself in two today in the belief that competing...
GamesBeat 09 preview: Veteran VC Tim Chang on what’s hot, what’s not in game investments
Game and virtual world investments soared to $885 million in 2008, but the picture is likely to be a mixed one this year. Games...
Sony’s game leadership goes full circle
Sony chief executive Howard Stringer shook up the ranks today with a management reorganization. He took over the president’s job held by Ryoji Chubachi...