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
