Splash Damage No. 4: Find a Project
Area 5’s Jay Frechette and game producer Erin Ali met a few years ago when they were both working their way through game design...
5 Hit Points: Jens Pulver (MMA Fighter)
Normally, we aren’t scared to ask hard-hitting questions. That’s what us journalists are supposed to do, right? Why, who wants to pussyfoot around an...
Zynga’s Cafe World game hits 10 million users in just a week
Zynga is starting to accelerate its momentum in social games on Facebook. The latest proof is Cafe World, a Facebook game that has grown...
Woman to Give Birth to a Turtle Fossil?
Dry Bones is a busy guy. In addition to appearing in various Mario games, he’s popped up in a very surprising place. Take a...
Starfox in Iraq: It’s About Time You Showed Up Fox!
It usually isn’t a good idea to make light of the war in Iraq. When it’s done this well, though, it’s hard not to...
Vacancies at the Habbo hotel? Sulake laying off 20 percent
The company that created the popular Habbo virtual world plans to lay off 20 percent of its employees, according to published reports. Sulake is...
The Problem with Review Scores — Nine-Point- O: That’s Too Low
Editor’s note: As the former reviews editor at Electronic Gaming Monthly, I used to spend way too much time thinking about game scores. My...
How Fourth Wall Studios hid an artistic radio drama inside Halo 3:ODST
Microsoft’s Halo 3: ODST is flying off the shelves as hardcore gamers play the first-person shooter video game on the Xbox 360. Sales have...
How to Earn $1 Million by Making a Free Game
Parents have been telling kids for years that they need to grow up and stop playing those damn video games. If 21-year-old Joe Chedburn...
Rock Band finally making it to the iPhone/iPod Touch
Tap Tap Revenge has owned the “rhythm music” game genre on the iPhone. Earlier this year, research showed that as many as a third...