History, RPGs, and the Struggle for Mainstream Appeal
Editor's note: Brian argues that there is a strong connection between the public's disinterest in academic subjects — most notably history — and the...
Activision Blizzard shows off footage from True Crime reboot
Re-entering the highly competitive “sandbox” crime genre made famous by Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto series, Activision Blizzard’s Activision Publishing division today showed live gameplay...
The ‘Mario of Facebook’ is yet to come
Gareth Davis, the platform manager in charge of Games at Facebook, delivered his keynote today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Davis...
EA signs baseball star Curt Schilling to make fantasy role-playing game
Electronic Arts has teamed up with baseball star Curt Schilling to make a game. But this isn’t a sports game. It’s a deal with...
Frosmo expands into the Asian casual game tournament market
It’s easy to see why Frosmo, a Helsinki-based company that makes a tournament platform for social games, wants to expand into the Asian game...
Revised video game financing list: 115 game companies raised $663.1M in 2009
[Update: We’ve added our list with new fundings we’ve heard about from readers and Engage Digital Media]. Game startups continued to score big investments...
Countdown to GamesBeat@GDC on Wednesday
We’ve come down to the wire for the GamesBeat@GDC conference, which takes place on Wednesday at rooms 305/307 in the Moscone Convention Center in...
SiBEAM raises $36.5M for wireless video transfer technology
SiBEAM has a big job to do networking homes so they can wirelessly transfer high-definition video from one place in the house to another....
Germany’s Bigpoint lines up Battlestar Galactica online game
In a coup for a German online game company, Bigpoint is announcing today that it will make a Battlestar Galactica online game for the...
The World’s Most Confusing Backpack
This is, without question, the world's most confusing product: For starters, it seems as though the backpack's makers threw every conceivable cultural meme at...