It’s easy to think of videogame “generations” as those defined by the changes in console hardware. In truth, real generations only loosely correlate to new advances in microprocessors and are better defined by major new design paradigms. iD Software helped define one of the last major generational s
video THQ has been in a extended public struggle to keep the company out of bankruptcy after over-investing in PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of its uDraw tablet peripheral. Yesterday, the company announced Jason Rubin would take over as president, while Danny Bilson, the Executive Vice-Preside
In less than a year, Spotify has popularized the idea of free access to music all the time, gaining more than 19.9 million monthly users and exciting a new round of fundraising, led by a $100 investment from Goldman Sachs. This week Swedish company GamersGate launched its own version of Spotify for
A group of researchers at the University of Surrey and Surry Satellite Technology have announced a new project to build satellites out of spare cell phone parts and a Kinect camera. The STRaND project will build two shoebox-sized satellites powered with the processors from Google Nexus phones. Each
Today the world seemed like a never-ending Twitter feed of revealed secrets: -New Castlevania game coming for 3DS. –Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning 2 almost had a greenlight until Lincoln Chafee started talking. Or at least so says Curt Schilling. -Resistance: Burning Skies–first dual analog shooter o
video It’s hard to really make fun of videogame culture. For every Cow Clicker there are dozens of noobz, the attempted comedy from writer and director Blake Freeman about a group of friends that travel to Los Angeles to compete in a Gears of War tournament. Rather than make fun of the particulariti
Flying in the face of Phil Zimbardo’s assertion that videogames are turning boys into “arousal” addicts,” a new survey of clinical literature published in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found there is “potential promise for videogames to improve health outcomes, partic
Trip Hawkins has announced he will step down as CEO of Digital Chocolate, the social and mobile games company he founded eight years ago. The news comes along with still unconfirmed reports that the company laid off 180 employees and closed offices in Mexicali, St. Petersburg, Armenia, and Bothell,