Cloud gaming: the promise of playing games anywhere you can scare up high-speed Internet, the latest ones fired at you instantly and on demand — just like Netflix or Hulu video — and with all the visual trimmings. The ability …
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Iran Announces the Salman Rushdie Fatwa Video Game
Novelist Salman Rushdie has so far escaped the decades-old call for his death in the real world, but in the video game universe he may not be so lucky. This week the government-sponsored Iranian Islamic Association of Students …
Coming Soon: A Softer Approach to Online Piracy
The entertainment industry’s ongoing battle with digital pirates (also known as average Americans) will enter a new chapter this fall as music and movie companies take a more sweeping–but less litigious–approach to dealing with widespread copyright infringement.
via Center for Copyright Information Presents Softer Approach to …
Author Neal Stephenson’s $500K Quest to Build a Better Sword Game
Surely Medieval knights would be appalled by the swordplay displayed in modern video games. Warriors hack blindly. Swords miraculously catch fire. Characters swing in wild circles like the Tasmanian Devil.
Author Neal …
Blizzard Reveals New Units for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
In case you missed our big feature on eSports in America, StarCraft II is kind of a big deal. This weekend at the MLG Spring Championship in Anaheim, Blizzard revealed new details about Heart of the Swarm, the Zerg-centric …
All Hail Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, King of E3 2012
What’s the biggest story at this year’s E3 games confab in Los Angeles? Most people would pick Nintendo’s Wii U console, I assume, though Microsoft’s aggressive reinvention of the Xbox 360 as an all-purpose computing device is an …
Sony Wonderbooks: Combining Games and Reading, with Hints of Harry Potter
Like burying vegetables in mac and cheese, Sony’s trying to get kids interested in books by combining them with video games.
The name of this work in progress is Wonderbooks. It’s an augmented reality book that works with the …
Photos: E3 2012 Video Game Conference
Scenes from the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.
Hands On with the Wii U, Nintendo’s Next-Generation Game Console
Most things about personal technology change at a relentlessly fast-forward pace that can make your head spin. Video game hardware design is not one of them.
The three major manufacturers stretch out the useful lives of their …
LucasArts Aims for More Mature Gamers with ‘Star Wars 1313’
How can old-school Star Wars fans wash the rancid taste of Kinect Star Wars out of their mouths? Maybe LucasArts’ new game Star Wars 1313 will help.
Instead of a dancing Han Solo, you’ll play a bounty hunter tracking down …
Skyrim Dawnguard Trailer Unveiled: Get Your Van Helsing On
Who or what are the Dawnguard, you ask? Bethesda’s finally answered, earlier than expected, in a surprise 1:37 long trailer for the eponymous forthcoming Skyrim expansion pack. Think vampire hunters in heavy plate, like a …
Game Boy Beats: Reaching Music’s Next Level at Blip Festival 2012
My memories of the original Game Boy are inextricably linked with the Tetris theme, a jaunty 8-bit rendition of the Russian folk song Korobeiniki playing out of tinny speakers. It was addictive, yes, but not something you would …