Don’t feel like you should deny it: The number of people who spend money on in-game purchases is growing. Juniper Research estimates that the revenue from last year will double by 2015, with pay-per-download revenues being taken over by money made by in-game purchases. (It also helps that companies like American Express are allowing you …
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Gaming Tip Sheet: “Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood”
We’re going to start taking video games and breaking down those hidden tips, Easter eggs and other random tricks that you didn’t know you wanted to know. This week our featured game is Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. We’re assuming that some of you have gone out and bought the game and are utterly addicted to it, so here’s some extra tips …
Q&A: Marv Wolfman on DC Universe Online, Love for Video Games
Marv Wolfman knows the DC Universe like few others. He’s written hit runs on Superman and Batman, along with a classic partnership with artist George Perez on the Teen Titans. Most memorably, he destroyed the multiple planes of reality that where alternate versions of the publishers characters existed in 1986’s Crisis on Infinite Earths …
“Call of Duty: Black Ops” Sets Video Game Sales Record
Activision was wrong when they predicted that Call of Duty: Black Ops wouldn’t sell as well as their highly-successful previous title in the franchise Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. But when you rake in $360 million dollars within 24 hours, I’m guessing this error in estimation is not something that they’re really worried …
Why the Cuban Government Is Speaking Out Against “Call of Duty: Black Ops”
Sorry for the spoiler: You get to kill a young Castro on one of the missions on the new Call of Duty: Black Ops games. While the controversial scenario may make for some exciting gameplay, some Cuban government-sponsored organizations have made it clear they aren’t exactly thrilled with the video game.
“What the United States …
Can “Call of Duty: Black Ops” Outsell “Modern Warfare 2”?
Activision had a lot of expectations to live up to due to their previous Call of Duty release, Modern Warfare 2. The first person shooter received a 94 percent on Metacritic and has sold over 20 million copies to date. Now that the next installment, Call of Duty: Black Ops, is upon us, the wait is finally over.
AIAS President Emeritus Joseph Olin on Video Games’ Supreme Court Case
When the Supreme Court of the United States hears opening statements for “Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association” this Tuesday, the video game medium will face its most epic boss battle ever. The court case concerns California Civil Code 1746-1746.5, which prohibits the sale or rental of games that portray “killing, …
Time Waster of the Day: Organ Trail
Nostalgic for your computer gaming youth were you spent all day glued to the yellow and black screen of Oregon Trail? Your oxen might have been moving at a strenuous pace, and you and your wagon were eating a meager amount of food each day, but you never seemed to get to ford that river before Mary died of dysentery.
Make some time to …
Fallout Parent Company Acquires Studio of Resident Evil Creator
ZeniMax Media–the company that owns Fallout: New Vegas publisher Bethesda Softworks–announced the acquisition of Tango Gameworks, the development studio founded by Shinji Mikami.
Mikami’s best known for creating the Resident Evil franchise, which resurrected the survival horror genre with the series’ first game appeared on …
Blizzard’s New Diablo III Trailer: The Feisty Demon Hunter
Demons beware, the demon hunter is here.
The latest and greatest trailer for Blizzard’s much-anticipated Diablo III was just released featuring a new class: the Demon Hunter.
In the cinematic trailer/gameplay demo she dual-wields crossbows while slaying an endless horde of undead zombies and abominations.
That’s right, I said …
Fallout MMO Confirmed, Coming in 2012
Many gamers already now that the most recent Fallout games are just the latest titles in a heritage that goes back more than a decade to 1997’s Fallout. What some may not know is that Bethesda acquired the right to make Fallout games when original publisher Interplay fell on financial hardship. While that deal’s resulted in Fallout 3 and …
Giveaway: Lego Universe Lets Players Build Big
As anyone who has a kid or a younger person in their life probably already knows, the recent wave of Lego video games have been great. Not only have they been some of the best kid-centric video games ever, but games like Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Star Wars have also been fun co-op experiences and good licensed titles, too. But the one …