With Toy Story 3, Disney hopes to shake the movie video game curse
With Toy Story 3, Disney’s game division has made a huge wager that video games based on movies don’t have to suck. For 2.5...
Portal Changed Everything. How Can Portal 2 Compete?
Editor’s note: Alert readers spotted this one in our recent Most Anticipated Games wrap up, but non-alert readers can enjoy it in its entirety,...
A Depressing Sight: Korean Stand-Up Comedians
They say the key to understanding a foreign culture is understanding their sense of humor. If that's the case, I may never really figure...
Yakuza 3: A Frighteningly Realistic Child Abuse Sim
Editor's note: What constitutes a media fiasco and what doesn't? Travis critiques Yakuza 3's somewhat shocking premise with his usual brand of refreshing levity....
Jason Rohrer: The Most Brilliant Game Designer Who Wasn’t
Editor's note: Forget whether games are art, Dennis wants to know whether games are, well, games. How do we define the practice of manipulating...
Digital River buys virtual goods company Fatfoogoo
Digital River said today it has acquired European virtual-goods company Fatfoogoo for about $10 million. Minneapolis-based Digital River is a publicly traded e-commerce company....
Zynga sees big fluctuation in social games in course of a week
Zynga, the hot social gaming company that may be worth $4.5 billion, has had some big swings in traffic for its games. And it’s...
Blizzard to integrate Facebook into Battle.net platform and StarCraft II game
Blizzard Entertainment announced today that it will integrate Facebook into its online gaming service Battle.net. That means that players of the upcoming long-awaited StarCraft...
Nexon gobbles Korean online game developer Ndoors
Nexon, a Korean online game publisher best known for its Maple Story title, has announced the full acquisition of Ndoors. Ndoors is a fellow...
Happy Birthday Bitmob!!!
I have not been as active on Bitmob as I once was, but in the beginning I was logged onto Bitmob whenever my computer was on. Suffice to say, I worked from home a year ago and my computer was on a lot!