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Tiger Woods on Video Game Realism and Knowing Your Customers

As I mentioned in last week's dispatch, when Tiger Woods came to New York City recently, I was able to pick his brain a bit about Twitter, Facebook and the changing landscape of sports marketing. Today, the topic is video games. After ...READ»

Robotic Game Controller Adjusts Itself, Frags Carpal-Tunnel

The device automatically adjusts itself, so that you never linger in one position long enough to develop repetitive stress.READ»

Sony's Jack Tretton Talks PlayStation 3 and the 10-Year Console Cycle

Fast Company sat down with the President of Sony Computer Entertainment America recently to discuss his commitment to the PS3's 10-year life-cycle despite the recession, the industry's fixation on hardware price cuts, and the future of downloadable games.READ»

The 10 Best Architectural Worlds in Video Games

Following-up its ranking of the best Star Wars architecture, The Architect's Journal ranks the best virtual architecture.READ»

The 10 Most Creative People in Video Games

From Sam Houser of Rockstar, to Neil Young of ngmoco, here are the people bringing innovation to the video game industry.READ»

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Sony Impresses, Nintendo Disappoints at E3

Sony unveiled the PSP Go, a motion controller, and a slew of impressive titles--including a new one from Rockstar, creators of the Grand Theft Auto franchise--during today's E3 video game expo. While Nintendo, maker of the leading ...READ»

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Microsoft Aims for the Mainstream With 1 vs 100 on Xbox Live [Updated]

Think you're smarter than the average game show contestant? Microsoft's 1 vs 100 game is your chance to prove it to everyone. It's also Microsoft's chance to prove that Xbox Live can captivate a mainstream audience with a game that ...READ»

Who Really Gets the Most Play? Nielsen's Revised Chart Upends the Video Game Market [Updated]

Nielsen's most recent study of video gamer habits was widely reported and made for great headlines in the gaming press this week. Too bad some key information in the report was wrong. After a follow-up with Gavin McMillan of ...READ»

Can a Game Be Journalism? Play 'Six Days In Fallujah' to Find Out

Six Days in Fallujah isn't the title of a war correspondent's missives from the frontlines. It's not even a book about the Iraq war. It's a video game due out next year from Konami--albeit one where the ricocheting bullets, ...READ»

Google's Game Show: All About Facebook?

When Google threw a party at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last Wednesday, the question that seemed to bedevil the press and analysts gathered was, "Why is Google throwing a party at the Game Developers ...READ»

A Video Game Grabs a Multi-Million Dollar Deal

In this ugly economy, what type of idea could possibly net a multi-million dollar movie option? Answer: A video game. Last fall Variety reported that Universal scooped up rights to an Electronic Arts video game ...READ»

Career Advice from Will Wright, Creator of Spore, SimCity and The Sims.

Game designer Will Wright founded his own company, Maxis, in 1989 and has since created some of the best-known simulation games in existence, including the 2008 blockbuster Spore. Maxis is now part of Electronics Arts, the world's largest video game company.READ»

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Why Women Should Play Video Games

Morgan Romine, better known as “Rhoulette” in the video game online community, helped found and build Ubisoft’s all-girl gaming team, the Frag Dolls. As captain of the Frag Dolls team, she serves as spokesperson, gamer, road manager ...READ»

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Video Games 2009: Who Will Win the Console War?

In 2008, titles like Grand Theft Auto IV (5 million copies) and Wii Fit (4.5 million) helped the game industry reach $21 billion in sales. But with the recession, gaming may struggle to stay on top in 2009. So how will the big three ...READ»

Tech Watch: Obama Launches Video Game Campaign; Microsoft on Windows 7; and Adobe Ships CS4

In a last-minute campaign effort, Obama's team has launched a full force Video Game Campaign extending the candidate's reach into the 18-34 market.READ»

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Xbox 360 for $199 -- Cheap!

Yes, Microsoft has lowered the price of the Xbox 360 console. You can get the standard system for $299 and the arcade version (no hard drive or backwards compatibility) for $199. Ignoring the worldwide dominance of the Nintendo Wii, ...READ»

XBox Gets Price Break

While rumors of an XBox discount have been aswirl for some weeks, today Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] came out and made them official. The standard XBox will get a $50 price drop, as will the Elite model XBox. The Arcade model will drop ...READ»

Heavy Rain as Video Game Art

Since the creation of video games, every year game developers have pushed the boundaries of graphics, ever-seeking greater realism. New images were recently released of Heavy Rain, from French developers Quantic Dream. Browsing ...READ»

The Rise of Corporate Games

With the ever-popular Sims games as blueprint, video games are making their way into the office. Here's a look at how savvy CEOs have made gameplay requisite for job training. READ»

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10 Hot Video Games for Summer

GTA4 kicked off the summer game season when it was released April 30. You play as an Eastern European immigrant newly arrived to Liberty City, an analogue of New York, where you're given an open world to explore. This blockbuster is ...READ»

Comic Con and Other Geek Holidays

Today the San Diego Comic Con began. While it was created for comic book companies to announce upcoming products, and for fans to meet the creators behind their favorite series, it has become an opportunity for Hollywood studios to ...READ»

E3 Postmortem: Some cool things seen at E3…

E3 is over after a short three days but there was a lot of things revealed and announced for the upcoming holiday season and the early 2009 season. It’s all about the games that are coming out and currently in development. Here’s ...READ»

Live from E3: Games with the longest lines...

In my last post, I mentioned how scaled back the show was and how much smaller the crowd was making it easier to play the games on display. But as always, it's hard to get a chance to play the most anticipated games. Here's a small ...READ»

Live from E3: The games I’ve played…

Compared to E3 events over the years, this year’s event is scaled back immensely and is a lot more intimate. The media, developers and publishers get a lot of cozy one-on-one time to talk about the games. It also makes the lines ...READ»

Live from E3: Capcom announces movie deal

Capcom, the video game company behind franchises like Resident Evil and Street Fighter, have just announced a another movie deal last night. They held a press conference announcing that their game, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, is ...READ»