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Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 06:41 PM EDT
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Blizzard, the makers of World of Warcraft, are suing Michael Donnelly, the creator of the MMO Glider program, which perf...
Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 11:22 AM EDT
Vigile writes "While the death of PC gaming might be exaggerated, it's hard not to see the issues gamers have with the platform. A genre that used to do...
Posted: Monday, March 24, 2008 at 02:37 PM EDT
News.com is reporting that Mytopia, another casual-gaming network, has launched into public-beta. More than just a regular game with virtual rewards, My...
Posted: Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 09:57 AM EDT
An anonymous reader writes "In an adapted version of the Harry Potter video game, players lift boulders and throw lightning bolts using only their minds...
Posted: Friday, March 21, 2008 at 07:24 PM EDT
ThinSkin writes "DirectX architect Alex St. John swims against the current and predicts the demise not of PC gaming, but of game consoles, in an exclusi...
Posted: Friday, March 21, 2008 at 12:11 AM EDT
wraith808 points out a story about remarks made by the CEO of software and game development company Stardock about sales in the PC game industry. His su...
Posted: Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 09:23 PM EDT
Analysts observing the videogame industry forsee 2008 being another blockbuster year in sales. Sales during the month of February were considerably up, ...
Posted: Friday, March 14, 2008 at 11:29 PM EDT
Mark Graham writes "All this week, UK games development site Develop has been running a series of articles under its 'WiiWare Week' banner, analyzing de...
Posted: Friday, March 14, 2008 at 09:37 AM EDT
schliz notes a development out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where researchers have successfully created an artificially intelligent four-year-old...
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 10:04 AM EDT
Games news sites are reporting that EA has issued a new offering to Take-Two's shareholders in an attempt to purchase the company outright. Last month E...
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 07:59 AM EDT
robipilot writes "Video game publisher Activision Inc. has asked a federal court to declare that its popular "Guitar Hero" game does not violate a paten...
Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 04:03 PM EDT
Vigile writes "As a matter of principle, when legendary game programmer John Carmack speaks, the entire industry listens. In a recent interview he comme...
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2008 at 03:18 PM EDT
tops writes "MadPenguin.org wonders why more Linux users aren't gamers and attempts to answer that question. The article suggests, 'As far as I'm concer...
Posted: Monday, March 10, 2008 at 08:58 AM EDT
An anonymous reader writes "TG Daily is running an interesting interview with EPIC founder and Unreal creator Tim Sweeney. Sweeney is anyway very clear ...
Posted: Sunday, March 09, 2008 at 03:13 PM EDT
jillduffy writes "Steve Schnur, a high-level music exec at Electronic Arts, talks about how video games are launching the careers of top musical artists...
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