Zynga CEO: We aren’t the copycats on Bingo social game (exclusive interview)
Mark Pincus, chief executive of social gaming giant Zynga, denied that Zynga copied a rival’s Bingo game on Facebook. Instead, he said in an...
Quantifying our lives will be a top trend of 2012
The Quantified Self is one of the big trends of 2012, as we noted in our recent summary of the Consumer Electronics Show. As...
The view from CES: The top 10 trends in technology for 2012
The International Consumer Electronics Show is a huge festival of gadgetry, but there’s no better place to get a bead on where technology is...
Use voice commands to play better in Mass Effect 3 (video)
Mass Effect 3 is one of the hot new video games coming this spring from BioWare, whose previous two installments have sold millions of...
How to teach history (and lots more) with Minecraft
Randy Fujimoto has a mission statement on his website: “A quest to transform education through game-based learning.” That’s a big idea, to be sure,...
For wider appeal, PlayStation Vita can do non-gaming apps like Twitter and Flickr (video)
Sony knows that its new portable console, the PlayStation Vita, is going to live or die on how good its games are. So said...
DeanBeat: Game companies raised a record-breaking $1.54B in 2011
Game fundings destroyed the record book for fundings this year as 145 companies raised more than $1.540 billion in 2011, not counting initial public...
Interview, photos and video reveal how an impressive Left 4 Dead fan film was made (exclusive)
Northern Five Entertainment and Airsoft GI recently released their joint Left 4 Dead short film to the world. Sporting Hollywood-level production values but produced...
Review: A Minecraft review isn’t really possible, but we’ll try anyway
How the hell do you write a review for a game that’s been out since 2009? A game that you’ve played across many changes,...
How Zynga grew from gaming outcast to $9 billion social game powerhouse
Update: This article is now available as a 63-page e-book on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore. Zynga has turned the video game world upside down in...