Google’s answer to Xbox Live is useful even if game developers do nothing but support cloud saves, but its Google+ branding could scare people away.
Video Games
If You Expect Jaw-Dropping Things from Nintendo Direct, You’re Missing the Point
Nintendo’s latest video state-of-the-union is another relatively sedate update, and that’s a good thing.
EA Isn’t Making Wii U Games: Do You Care?
Electronic Arts just confirmed that it’s not designing games for Nintendo’s Wii U.
Nvidia Shield Not Priced to Move? No Problem for Nvidia
At a price of $350, Nvidia doesn’t expect to sell huge volumes of Nvidia Shield, its Android-based handheld gaming device due out in June. The company has a different goal.
Nvidia’s ‘Shield’ Games Handheld Launching in June, Not Priced to Compete with Ouya
Nvidia rebrands it Android gaming handheld, locks in a price and commits to launch by end of June.
Google Lets You ‘Breakout’ of Image Search with Retro Atari Easter Egg
Want a quick game of Atari’s Breakout played using Google Images?
The Inexorable Decline of World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft‘s precipitous subscriber declines continue.
Bluestacks Bites Back at Ouya with Free (at First) Android Game Console
The race to disrupt traditional game consoles already has a few hopefuls, including Ouya, Gamestick and Nvidia.
Ouya Delayed to End of June, Snatches $15m in New Funding, Lures Ex-EA Boss Bing Gordon
You’ll have to wait just a bit longer to lay hands on Ouya’s upcoming Android-based game console.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Is DLC for Folks Who Hate DLC
As far as DLC goes, we need a lot more of this.
20 New Grand Theft Auto V Screens Tease Massive Environments, Rowdy Protagonists
Rockstar’s latest batch of Grand Theft Auto V screens highlight vast playgrounds and rambunctious protagonists Franklin, Michael and Trevor.
Four Reasons the EA-Star Wars Deal Can’t Possibly Work (and Three It Just Might)
May the force be with Electronic Arts. It’ll surely need all the help it can get to pull a Jedi-rabbit out of this sarlacc pit of a hat.