Electronic Arts says it will close down three popular Facebook games--The Sims Social, SimCity Social, and Pet Society--on June 14, citing a "not surprising" dropoff in player activity within its Facebook-based games.
EA's acquisition of gaming company ESN is the latest evidence that we're headed for the cloud. That's good news for gamers--and the publishers and console creators who can keep up.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could gather real-time feedback from your customers and make real-time changes to your product, quickly pivoting based on their personal preferences? Thanks to interactive design and some super-charged technology, social gamers are doing just that.
On December 20, BioWare will release "Star Wars: The Old Republic," its most ambitious project yet. Bigger than all of its previous games combined, it could be a monumental success--or a titanic failure.
Yesterday was all about Apple, as the Cupertino launched hardware and software to an adoring world. And you all know what comes next: the unboxing and the hands-on. Here's Engadget's Josh Topolsky on the 13-inch MacBook Air.
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Back in April, film critic Roger Ebert stirred up a tempest in a teacup with his comment that gaming can never be art. Last week at E3, the game industry's annual mega-convention, I asked the gaming execs and creators I interviewed their thoughts on Ebert's opinion and if they could give him one game to change his mind, what would that be.
