Video games and education have had a complex relationship, and I asked the Bitmob community to write about them for last month’s Bitmob Writing Challenge. These five entries cover a range of topics such as the true success of a …
Loot and achievements are at the heart of Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo III, and now players have an expansive new way to track both from anywhere on the game's site.
Gaymercon Director Matt Conn doesn't want to separate gamers by sexual orientation, despite what critics say.
Commander Shepard pulls off his best Big Daddy impression as he dives into mysterious waters in Mass Effect 3: Leviathan.
THQ's four internal studios have begun work on new games since company president Jason Rubin took over his position.
I wear makeup. If my fiancé went in the bathroom and snapped my eyeliner pencil, I’d be fuming. But here I am watching these YouTube videos of girls smashing their boyfriends' consoles out of anger. All for different reasons: They don’t …
THQ has announced that it’s lost less than expected in the first quarter of its fiscal year — which actually good news for the video game publisher that recently escaped NASDAQ delisting.
THQ reported net sales of $38.6 million for …
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Zynga tries to create the ultimate cooking social game, avoiding possible new lawsuits in the process.
The $67 billion worldwide video game industry is breaking through barriers on the cultural, legal and political fronts, according to the annual report of the Entertainment Software Association, the U.S. industry's trade group.
DeNA and Ngmoco teams up with Marvel Comics for Marvel War of Heroes, a battle card game for mobile devices.
Riot Games hopes to turn its hit game League of Legends into a household name by dramatically expanding a professional-gaming league that rewards players with big prizes and recognition.
Jim Veevaert has crossed over from making games like Halo 3 to Zynga's social games like Ruby Blast. He says he's never going back.
Nintendo has another New Super Mario Bros. game, but is it fair to still call it new?
ARM Mali T600-based devices will be able to display eye-popping, beautiful 3D graphics.
Editor's Pick Innovative Leisure has raised a seed round to fund its "new arcade" mobile games.
Khronos Group's new OpenGL 3.0 software will raise mobile 3D-graphics quality, leading to better-looking zombies on our iPhone or Android tablets.
If you haven’t heard of it, the Tetris effect occurs when one devotes an excessive amount of time to an activity or game, and it begins to overtake the sufferer’s thoughts and dreams. It’s named for the classic block-stacking puzzler Tetris. …
If we Earthlings have learned anything from movies, video games, and comic books, we may not want to find anything....
Spinning, zooming, creating, zapping and slapping: all in a day's beta with Little Big Planet Karting.
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