Categories Posted inin Business Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway shows off the large-screen DSi XL (video) Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 25, 2010 1 min The new Nintendo DSi XL arrives in the U.S. on March 28. But Cammie Dunaway, executive vice president at Nintendo of America, showed me...
Categories Posted inin Business Will Nintendo’s first-half game lineup satisfy gamers? Our hands-on impressions Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 25, 2010 6 min The announcement of Nintendo’s DSi XL handheld got a lot of attention today. But the games that the Japanese company talked about are equally...
Categories Posted inin Business Hi5 to announce new online games management team, acquisition of social game firm Big Six Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 24, 2010 2 min In its ambition to be a player in the red hot category of social network games, Hi5 is expected to announce today that it...
Categories Posted inin Gaming Culture Aliens vs. Predator 2 – 9 years later Posted byby GamesBeat February 24, 2010 4 min To clear some things up, it's been almost 9 years since the game came out in 2001, and since Monolith shut down the online...
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat@GDC: Meet our expert judges for the Who’s Got Game startup contest Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 24, 2010 2 min It’s time to unveil our expert panel of judges for the second annual Who’s Got Game contest for the best game startup. We’ll hold...
Categories Posted inin Business Empire Avenue creates a stock market to measure your social influence (50 beta passes) Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 24, 2010 2 min Everyone wants to know who has the most social influence, but so far, there hasn’t been a good way to measure it. The number...
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat@GDC speakers: Norwest, Nexon, Morris Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 24, 2010 2 min We’ve tapped some more smart people who know the gaming business as speakers for our upcoming GamesBeat@GDC executive game conference. The event is set...
Categories Posted inin Business Video Games Don’t Have to Be Fun Posted byby GamesBeat February 24, 2010 3 min Editor's note: In response to Christian Higley's article challenging the notion that indie games must be fun to play, Cameron widens the debate by...
Categories Posted inin Business Nintendo to sell new DSi with 93 percent bigger screen starting March 28 Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 24, 2010 2 min Nintendo of America announced this morning that it will begin selling the Nintendo DSi XL starting March 28 in the U.S. The new version...
Categories Posted inin Business Game Stories: Pulling Them Apart, Putting Them Back Together Again Posted byby GamesBeat February 24, 2010 5 min Editor's note: Via Prince of Persia, Brian takes a look at the multiple storylines running through every game — not just the story of...