Uncharted 2: Among Thieves may have won the top kudos of the night at Spike’s annual video game award show over the weekend, but the televised event also had a lot of buzz surrounding all the new game trailers and announcements.
Since we couldn’t make it over to Los Angeles for the geek-filled gala, we decided to give out our own …
The early poster child for the controversial new changes to Facebook’s privacy policy? Facebook’s founder and CEO himself.
Facebook released a set of Dec. 9 changes to Facebook’s privacy policy that includes a new set of Facebook user information in public search results, everything from the complete list of a user’s friends, to …
I dread the day when all video games will only be available via digital distribution, and there will no longer be box art. But until then, I will continue to judge video games by their covers.
Without further ado, here are this week’s box art reviews…
Safe Cracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Challenge! (DS)
What’s on the Box: The front …
I don’t want to talk about geoSpark yet. I want to talk about Doodle Jump for a second. Hear me out.
Doodle Jump is an awesome little app. You play a little Qbert-like jumping beastie. He jumps. He jumps up a series of platforms. Sometimes the platforms move. Sometimes they have springy things on them that sproing him upward, or a …
FULL LIST: Techland’s top video games of the 2000s.
It’s not easy to go back through 10 years of gaming and choose just 10 titles to represent the best video games of the decade. (See the other “best of the decade” lists here).
Especially since Lev, Peter and I have different tastes; we went back and forth on games we personally …
Two things that are hot right now: vampires and Facebook games. So it was only a matter of time before some company took advantage of these trends. That’s where City of Eternals comes in (try it now).
Made by San Francisco-based developer ohai, City of Eternals is a massively multiplayer online game set in a world of modern vampires …
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey previewed his new tech start up “Square” Wednesday in Paris – a device that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to accept credit card payments.
Square is named after the small gadget that plugs into the bottom of the iPhone or iPod Touch – an inch-long card reader that can accept card payments …
Comic book fans may know Devin Grayson from her work on Batman: Gotham Knights and Nightwing, but after a two-year hiatus, she’s decided to lend her writing skills to a new medium — a massively multiplayer online game.
Grayson just signed on to work on Kung Foo!, a free-to-play, martial arts-themed MMO based on a popular Chinese TV …
Following a brief investigation triggered by the iPhone photography blog iPhoneography, Apple has banished Chinese developer Molinker and its estimated 1000 iPhone apps. The majority of Molinker’s applications were pitiful copycats of existing popular apps, but that’s not what triggered the amateur sleuthing from an Internet friend …
Following the announcement earlier this fall that corporate powerhouse Disney was to acquire comic book company Marvel Studios comes news that chairman David Maisel will step down once the $4 billion merger is complete.
Named president of the Marvel team in 2004, Maisel became the force behind the company’s film productions, …
Peter and I chose our top 10 games of the year. For Time. Then we chose them for Techland. Amazingly they turned out to be the exact same list both times. Here it is.
Or anyway here’s the first 40% of it. The whole list is over at Time.com, for some reason. I don’t want to talk about it.
One good thing about this year’s list: it …
Will sex sell a video game?
Electronic Arts sure hopes so. There was a bit of controversy last week when it was discovered that those who purchase The Saboteur, a third-person, open-world title set in World War II, will receive a code that allows for the girls of the game’s Belle de Nuit, a Parisian strip club, to be completely …
