Categories Posted inin Technology Q&A: an interview with Sega’s Simon Jeffery on monkeying around with iPhone games and the Wii Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 14, 2008 8 min Simon Jeffery is the president of Sega of America. He joined the U.S. arm of the Japanese publisher, famous for games such as Sonic...
Categories Posted inin Technology Blizzard cuts deal with NetEase.com to take Starcraft II to China Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 13, 2008 2 min The original “StarCraft” is one of the most successful video games of all time. The sci-fi real-time strategy game debuted more than a decade...
Categories Posted inin Technology AMD takes the single-card speed crown from Nvidia with dual-graphics card Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 12, 2008 2 min Tipping the see-saw battle yet again in the battle for the hearts of hardcore PC gamers, Advanced Micro Devices is announcing a PC graphics...
Categories Posted inin Technology Wicked Interactive will launch online games from Korean publisher Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 11, 2008 1 min Online game companies are coming out of the woodworks. One strategy is to take the newly popular “free to play” model from Asia and...
Categories Posted inin Technology Knowledge Adventure raises $5 million to make jump from kids games to virtual worlds Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 11, 2008 2 min Plenty of companies are making the shift from video games to virtual worlds. Knowledge Adventure is the latest as it announced today it has...
Categories Posted inin Technology Nvidia encourages new generation of visual computing startups Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 6, 2008 3 min I can remember the first interview I did with Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, back when the company was coming out of stealth...
Categories Posted inin Technology MyGameMug categorizes and matches gamers Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 6, 2008 3 min Gamers spend a lot their time online and communicate often with friends. That’s why everybody wants to rope them into a social network. But...
Categories Posted inin Technology Total Immersion blurs real and virtual in theme parks Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 5, 2008 2 min Home video game consoles became so good at 3-D graphics that they nearly wiped out the location-based electronic entertainment business. But Total Immersion believes...
Categories Posted inin Technology Will Martian water discovery fuel interest in sci-fi Blue Mars world? Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 5, 2008 4 min The discovery of water on Mars might spur a lot of interest in the science fiction dream of terraforming the Red Planet into a...
Categories Posted inin Gaming Culture Tabula Digita raises round for educational games Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 4, 2008 1 min Tabula Digita has raised $6 million in a second round of funding to make educational games. The New York-based game company is the latest...