Categories Posted inin Business Living in Arcadia Posted byby GamesBeat June 7, 2009 1 min Editor’s note: Check out this intricately edited personal history of arcade games by Shea Murphy. The guy has a deep and abiding love of...
Categories Posted inin Business Tetris is how old now? Posted byby GamesBeat June 6, 2009 1 min Was about to do a search on Google when the image froze me. Why on Earth would they have a Tetris logo (which rules,...
Categories Posted inin Technology E3 game conference gets its mojo back Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 5, 2009 6 min For a couple of years, even as the game industry entered a renaissance, the E3 trade show was lost in the wilderness. But this...
Categories Posted inin Business E3 2009: Mobcast Episode 006 Posted byby GamesBeat June 5, 2009 1 min Our final E3 podcast is chock-full of guests and entertaining stories involving food. Enjoy, and wish us a safe trip home. Bitmob.com – Mobcast...
Categories Posted inin Business Ride, Tony Hawk, Ride! Posted byby GamesBeat June 5, 2009 2 min Editor’s Note: Patrick Bonk — great gaming name, by the way — explains why he feels Tony Hawk: Ride just might be the game...
Categories Posted inin Business E3 2009: When Modern Warfare 2 isn’t always guns a-blazing Posted byby GamesBeat June 5, 2009 2 min A lot of things impressed me about the Modern Warfare 2 demo: the great blizzard/snow effects. A snowmobile chase that would make Bruce Willis...
Categories Posted inin Business E3 2009: EA Took Me to Hell and All I Have to Show is This Lousy Update Posted byby GamesBeat June 5, 2009 2 min My tour of the EA booth felt like a trip through hell. Because it was. Seriously — the demo for action-adventure game Dante’s Inferno...
Categories Posted inin Technology Nintendo CEO: Wii care about your heartbeat, but not your iPhone, the recession or free games Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 5, 2009 8 min Satoru Iwata is very excited about your heartbeat. The chief executive of Nintendo wants to capture it on his new Wii Vitality Sensor, an...
Categories Posted inin Business E3 2009: THQ Big Sword Bonanza Posted byby GamesBeat June 4, 2009 1 min Yesterday, I discovered THQ fancy one killing weapon over all: big ol’ swords. The two games I checked out Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine and...
Categories Posted inin Technology Dean’s video report on the latest trends and great games of E3 Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 4, 2009 1 min Here’s a video I shot with Alexa Lee of Ooyala at the Microsoft Xbox 360 booth at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles....