Facebook talks restriction while Zynga talks expansion
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed some changes that impact social gaming giant, Zynga, while Zynga CTO Cadir Lee talks expansion plans. Who ever said the world of social media gaming was boring?
View ArticleGirls who play video games: "don't call us gamers!"
Casual game publisher PlayFirst and market research firm Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc. weigh in on the casual games market spread across social network, mobile, and PC platforms. Not surprisingly,...
View Article749 NES games in 15 min.
The Nintendo Entertainment System celebrated its 25th anniversary this week and NESGuide.com celebrated it with a video montage of 749 NES games in 13 minutes and 45 seconds. How many do you recognize?
View ArticleYes, John Romero's new game is a Facebook game
Fun fact: While still employed at the place that canceled his massively multiplayer online game, developer John Romero consulted with LOLapps to make a Facebook game called Ravenwood Fair.
View ArticleBlizzCon: Day One
BlizzCon kicked off with a slew of standard announcements (20 years of Blizzard, 12 million World of Warcraft players, etc.), plus some newsy tidbits for fans of each of the company's three major...
View ArticleAngry Birds Halloween sells a million in six days
Just in time for Halloween weekend, developer Rovio announced this morning that its sold a million downloads of Angry Birds Halloween in just six days on the App Store.
View ArticleDance Central
Here's what I liked about Dance Central: It lied to me. For the most part, the only feedback I had from the game came in the form of a glowing circle that widens or shrinks to tell me how much I'm...
View ArticleHarmonix for sale
Media giant Viacom announced plans to sell Rock Band developer Harmonix during its third quarter financial results report this morning. Support for the franchise and Dance Central will continue.
View ArticleKinect: 1 million sold
Microsoft announced today that it broke the 1 million unit sale mark with Kinect, ten days after launch. Only 4 million to go before 2011 starts.
View ArticleFable III
Players pick up in Albion a generation after your hero from Fable II apparently fixed everything and kicked general ass. Fable III does an eloquent job of remembering your Fable II character's gender...
View ArticlePortal 2 delayed hilariously
Leave it to Valve to make me laugh even as they're breaking my heart with a Portal 2 delay announcement.
View ArticleCataclysm sells 4.7 million
Blizzard sent out a press release announcing 4.7 million sales of World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm in just one month. Guess how much it sold in just one day?
View ArticleHere's your preliminary E3 2011 exhibitors list
The Entertainment Software Association has an early list of companies signed up for floorspace at E3 2011. Here's who made the list:
View ArticleGhost Trick: Phantom Detective
Calling do-overs is usually the last resort of a sore loser, but the main character in Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective has plenty to be sore about in only the first three minutes of gameplay: Shot dead...
View ArticleActivision recommends closing Project Gotham Racing dev
Project Gotham Racing developer Bizarre Creations looks to be closing after publisher Activision failed to find a buyer for the studio. Bummer.
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