Minecraft‘s been one of the biggest success stories ever in the video game medium. The sprawling browser-based game’s mostly the work of one man, indie developer Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, with more than 6 million people registered. It’s become wildly popular over the last year, so much so that Paypal froze Persson’s account on suspicions …
A good noir story’s nothing without a little double-dealing and the newest clip from Rockstar’s upcoming detective thriller shows hints of powerful mobsters and far-reaching corruption in post-war L.A.
The trailer shows Aaron Staton’s Cole Phelps coming up against shady dealings involving heavy-duty drug deals and signs that not …
When you’re offering up as much content as Apple does–thousands of TV shows and movies, millions of songs and downloads–you need somewhere to house it. According to storage industry reports, the iPad makers have acquired 12 petabytes of storage for video content in the iTunes ecosystem. This may go hand in hand with Apple’s announced …
Infinity Blade racked up tons of accolades and significant sales when it hit Apple’s App Store last year. (I loved it.) The touch action/RPG hybrid stands out as one of the best-looking and sharpest-feeling games on iOS, and Android users have surely been holding their breath for their chance to take on the GodKing’s ogres and hedge …
Depending who you ask, you’ll get a different answer about who’s winning the operating system wars. Of course, the Linux people think they’ve won, but here’s the thing–they may be right.
Speaking to Network World, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin asserts that the beloved open-source OS has already beaten Microsoft and …
If you’re a PS3 owner experiencing slow service on the console’s PlayStation Network–or no service at all–then you could be caught up in a feud between Sony and the internet hacker gang known as Anonymous. (Should Customers Have The Right To “Hack” Their Consoles?)
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Whether it’s Farmville, Mafia Wars, or any of the hundreds of titles vying for attention in your news feed, social games get a lot of flak for trapping players in repetitive loops of shallow, sometimes compulsive gameplay. You can pull in your friends to help with that barn or take out a made man, but it ultimately doesn’t feed back into …
It’s been a weird year for football fans. The NFL lockout means Sunday’s regular pigskin battles may disappear entirely, or worse, that they’ll be waged by substitute players. It’s even getting strange on the video game front, where sports-play bigwig EA’s adding cautionary concussion mechanics to this year’s edition of their perennial …
The one good thing that comes from being a sequel is the new story avenues that get opened up. In Infamous, gamers got to play the origin story of Cole McGrath, a bike messenger who got electrical powers in an explosion that ruined his hometown of Empire City. So, what you won’t be doing in the Sucker Punch dev studio’s Infamous 2 is …
Microsoft said all along that their Kinect motion-sensing camera would open up new gameplay possibilities. Turns out it’s opened the unlikeliest possibility of all: a StarCraft game for the Xbox 360.
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Blizzard kept fans waiting about a decade for StarCraft II, which …
Call it the Mass Storage Effect. When comparing the PlayStation 3 vs. the Xbox, one thing developers talk about is the difference in space with the consoles’ disc formats. The DVD format’s a bit long in the tooth, and the usable space on the average Xbox 360 dual-layer disc usually tops out at around 6.8 GB out of 7.95 GB.
According …
The iconic green jacket golfers win at the storied annual Masters tournament means one thing: The victor’s name goes down as one of the best in history. Tiger Woods accomplished that feat in 1997, making him the youngest person ever to do it at age 21.
That’s great and all but I still beat him at his own game. Granted, it was only …
