Category Archives for Video Games
Tokyo Game Show to highlight rise of social games (Reuters)
Tokyo Game Show to highlight rise of social games TOKYO (Reuters) – In a world of booming smartphones and tablets, social game providers will take the spotlight at the Tokyo Game Show this week, while champion Nintendo, criticized for being … Continue reading
Tokyo Game Show to highlight rise of social games (Reuters)
Tokyo Game Show to highlight rise of social games TOKYO (Reuters) – In a world of booming smartphones and tablets, social game providers will take the spotlight at the Tokyo Game Show this week, while champion Nintendo, criticized for being … Continue reading
Addiction? Video games crowded out man's real life (AP)
Addiction? Video games crowded out man’s real life SARASOTA, Fla. – At the height of what he calls his addiction, Ryan Van Cleave would stand in the grocery store checkout line with his milk and bread and baby food for … Continue reading
Kanye West closes first 'Call of Duty' convention (AP)
Kanye West closes first ‘Call of Duty’ convention LOS ANGELES – Kanye West closed down the inaugural “Call of Duty XP” convention, a two-day event celebrating the popular Activision Blizzard Inc. shoot-’em-up video game franchise, with an explosive concert inside … Continue reading
Review: 'Dead Island' is no day at the beach (AP)
Review: ‘Dead Island’ is no day at the beach What’s more relentless than zombies? Video games about zombies. They’ve been good (“Resident Evil”) and bad (“Rock of the Dead”). There are serious games like “Left 4 Dead” and comical games … Continue reading
Walmart's Vudu Surging in Digital Video Market (Mashable)
Walmart’s Vudu Surging in Digital Video Market Eighteen months after buying online movie service Vudu, big box retailer Walmart has a bonafide hit on its hands. According to a recent report from IHS Screen Digest Media Research, Vudu has eclipsed … Continue reading
Film rights nabbed to upcoming videogame “Hawken” (Reuters)
Film rights nabbed to upcoming videogame "Hawken" LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – DJ2 Entertainment has snatched up film rights to Adhesive Games' highly anticipated videogame "Hawken." On March 30, the five-man Los Angeles-based videogame studio released gameplay footage from the yet-to-be … Continue reading
United States loses video game jobs to Quebec (Reuters)
United States loses video game jobs to Quebec MONTREAL (Reuters) – Outside, the sun is shining, but it is dark in the production room where more than 150 Ubisoft artists, animators and engineers are racing to finish the latest edition … Continue reading
Sony Hires Homeland Security Veteran as Security Chief (Mashable)
Sony Hires Homeland Security Veteran as Security Chief More than four months after hackers brought down its PlayStation Network, accessing the personal information of more than 100 million users, Sony has hired a veteran of the U.S. Department of Homeland … Continue reading
Decide-O-Tron App Tells You What Game To Buy … or Else (Mashable)
Decide-O-Tron App Tells You What Game To Buy … or Else Penny Arcade has launched a menacing robot — that is, a mobile app called the Decide-o-tron to help you decide on video games you might like to buy. The … Continue reading