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ChartSpot: February 2010

17 March 2010 |Aliens vs. Predator 360, BioShock 2 PS3 barely miss NPD's top 10 non-PC game chart; Star Trek Online edged out by Sims 3: High-end Loft Stuff atop PC rankings.

Demon’s Souls sells roughly a quarter million - Report

17 March 2010 |Atlus-published From Software role-playing game hits sales milestone in the US after Sony passed on it for concerns over difficulty, unforgiving design decisions.

Rabbids to ‘Travel in Time’?

17 March 2010 |Ubisoft files USPTO trademark application indicating disturbed lagomorphs' next game will play fast, loose with four-dimensional continuum.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep waking this summer

17 March 2010 |Square Enix confirms North American release for PSP prequel to 2002 PS2 original will arrive later this year.

Capcom bags Monster Hunter Freedom 3

17 March 2010 |Japanese publisher confirms fourth PSP release in cooperative action role-playing game franchise to see debut by end of the year; new regions, monsters among planned changes.

GDC 2010 attendance record tops 18,250

17 March 2010 |Showrunners announce top turnout for industry conference last week; next year's show returning to San Francisco from Feb. 28-Mar. 4.

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker delayed to June 8, PSP Pack unveiled

17 March 2010 |Konami's portable stealth action game pushed back two weeks, will also be available in a green PSP hardware bundle with 2GB memory stick, voucher for downloadable movie.

Need for Speed World beta revs up

17 March 2010 |Electronic Arts gives players an early chance to try out browser-based massively multiplayer online racer, full release set for summer.

ModNation Racers dated for May 25

17 March 2010 |Next title in Sony’s Play, Create and Share series slated to hit store shelves in two months in North America; European release confirmed for shortly thereafter.

Facebook shuts down R18+ for games group

16 March 2010 |Grow Up Australia group removed for violating social networking site’s terms of use; organisers to launch new fan page.

Dragon Age: Origins Awakening Review

17 March 2010 |A Warden's work is never done.

Dragon Age: Origins Awakening Review

17 March 2010 |A Warden's work is never done.

Monster Hunter Diary Trailer

17 March 2010 |Capcom's Monster Hunter spinoff puts Felyne in the starring role. Check out this trailer while waiting for the August Japanese release.

8 iPhone Games We Want on iPad

17 March 2010 |Sure, we want all-new games for Apple's tablet. But awesome ports are a good start.

Monster Hunter Freedom 3 First Look Trailer

17 March 2010 |Check out the new locations, beasts and weapons for Capcom's instantly anticipated sequel.

Daily Fix Video Podcast: 3.16.10

17 March 2010 |God Of War 3 out in stores, Splinter Cell: Conviction is getting a demo, & Arkham Asylum is going 3D.

Activision Titles New Spider-Man Game

17 March 2010 |Bobby Kotick's spider sense is tingling.

DICE Talks the Past and Future of Bad Company

17 March 2010 |Multiplayer stats, plans for downloadable content, and more.

DICE Talks the Past and Future of Bad Company

17 March 2010 |Multiplayer stats, plans for downloadable content, and more.

DICE Talks the Past and Future of Bad Company

17 March 2010 |Multiplayer stats, plans for downloadable content, and more.

Need for Speed: World Aims To Take Casual Drivers Online

17 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> With racers, I'm a lot more familiar with arcade and cart/kart tracks than with any of the more ...

Yakuza 4: A Japan-Only Sequel Featuring New Characters, New Games, And More Karaoke

17 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> Amidst the internet furor due to the recently released PS3-exclusive JRPG (yeah, it's a JRPG) Yakuza 3 ...

Battlefield Heroes Gets Bad Company 2 Unlocks

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Guitar Hero 5 is Amazon’s Deal of the Day

17 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> The ship may have sailed on the free Guitar Hero: Van Halen deal, but if you're still keen on ...

MGS: Peace Walker Out June 8 with Limited Edition PSP Bundle

17 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker -- the PSP Metal ...

Xbox Boss Says Lack of Blu-ray is Key to 360’s Success Over PS3

17 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> There have been rumors about a Blu-ray drive (both of the internal and external variety) coming to the ...

Splinter Cell Conviction Demo Due March 18

17 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> If you're eagerly anticipating a big event in mid-April, you're either an IRS employee or a Splinter ...

Fils-Aime Acknowledges Nintendo Focus on Casual Games

17 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime made some surprisingly frank comments regarding the company's ...

Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening Review

17 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> Let me tell you right now: Justice is "that one BioWare NPC" in Dragon Age: Origins -- Awakening. You know ...

Gears of War 3 Reportedly Coming in April 2011

17 March 2010 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Gears of War 3 is in development at Epic Games. The first ...

Fan Backlash

16 March 2010 |Mess with someone's favorite game franchise, and you'll get more than the horns.

Your Shape Has its Eye on You

16 March 2010 |Ubisoft's new exercise game comes bundled with a camera that not only tracks your movements, but also allows you to put exercise equipment into your routine.

Mass Effect 2: Meet Samara

16 March 2010 |She's blue, kicks butt and has no interest in materialistic possessions. Sounds like our kind of alien.

Guild Wars 2 Video

16 March 2010 |New trailer showcases five races, different characters and locations from ArenaNet's ambitious sequel.

Mass Effect 2: The Engineer

16 March 2010 |Unleash combat drones and hack your enemies with Mass Effect 2's nerdy Engineer class.

MW2 MP Broken?

16 March 2010 |Xbox 360 version plagued by cheaters and 18 person deathmatches. What's Infinity Ward doing about this? Based on our experiences this week...nothing.

NES Stress Test

16 March 2010 |Can Super Mario Bros. withstand subzero temperatures? GoNintendo hopes to find out.

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Trailer

16 March 2010 |Ubisoft releases a teaser to its much-anticipated Tom Clancy game.

GDC 2010 Coverage

14 March 2010 |Check out the latest videos from this week's feature packed show in San Francisco.

GDC 2010 Coverage

14 March 2010 |Check out the latest videos from this week's feature packed show in San Francisco.

Best of FingerGaming: From Street Fighter IV to The Graveyard

17 March 2010 |[Every week, Gamasutra sums up sister iPhone site FingerGaming's top news and reviews for Apple's nascent -- and increasingly exciting -- portable games platform, as written by editor in chief Danny Cowan and authors Mathew Kumar ...

Top-Grossing iPhone Apps: Street Fighter IV, Where’s Waldo? Lead Rankings

17 March 2010 |Every week, sister iPhone site FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day in the iTunes App Store, and this chart is now available on Gamasutra. This week's U.S. iPhone revenue ...

Stardock’s Wardell Details Impulse Reactor Specifics

17 March 2010 |As developers look for cost-effective ways to give PC games value-added features like achievements and social integration, as well as combat piracy, the main contenders have been Valve's Steamworks suite and Microsoft's Xbox ...

Microsoft, Nintendo Successfully Defend Controller Patent Allegations

17 March 2010 |Microsoft and Nintendo have received favorable rulings in a Washington court of appeal, confirming that the companies did not violate a patent related to video game controller power conversions. The two console manufacturers were ...

Sony Regrets Not Publishing Demon’s Souls In North America

17 March 2010 |From Software's notoriously punishing action-RPG Demon's Souls was published by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan, but Sony's North American and European counterparts turned it down -- and now the company admits that was the ...

New ‘British Inspiration Awards’ Will Include Video Games

17 March 2010 |UK politicians announced cross-party support for the UK government's new "British Inspiration Awards," which will include categories for varying creative cultural sectors, including video games. Prime Minister Gordon Brown MP, ...

GDC Gallery: IGF Awards, Pavilion, Indie Games Summit, More…

17 March 2010 |Organizers of this year's Game Developers Conference and Independent Games Festival have been documenting the March 9th-13th San Francisco event in visual form, with the independent game-specific content at last week's show first ...

Sony: ‘A Lot’ Of SCE Studios Working On Stereoscopic PS3 Games

17 March 2010 |Technology that portrays 2D images as 3D has been around since 1832 in some shape or form. Today, 3D appears to be back on the upswing in film and games, thanks to new technologies. Sony is the game console maker putting the most ...

Gamebryo Adds LiveMove 2 To Support PlayStation Move

17 March 2010 |Emergent Technologies said its Gamebryo LightSpeed development system will add AiLive's motion control solution LiveMove 2, which will support Sony's upcoming PlayStation Move motion controller. Developers using both Gamebryo ...

Gamebryo, LiveMove 2 To Support PlayStation Move

17 March 2010 |Emergent Technologies and AiLive said on Tuesday that their respective development tools, Gamebryo Lightspeed and LiveMove 2, will support Sony's upcoming PlayStation Move motion controller. Developers using both Gamebryo ...

News: OnLive business model a “shot in the arm” for Gaikai

17 March 2010 | David Perry has pointed out the drawbacks of cloud gaming service OnLive compared to his own Gaikai service, due to launch later this year, in the wake of OnLive's pricing and strategy announcements at this year's ...

News: British Inspiration Awards to honour UK creative sectors

17 March 2010 | Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Conservative leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg are lending cross-party support to the British Inspiration Awards, a new initiative to honour the UK's creative ...

News: GAME opens Home space

17 March 2010 | UK retailer GAME is to open a space in PlayStation 3 Home this week, offering visitors access to exclusive content and competitions. The company becomes one of the first ...

News: Quest Online sacks president, admits MMO “should never have launched”

17 March 2010 | US developer Quest Online has sacked its president and co-founder Dave Allen for "insubordination" and replaced him with 3000AD president Derek Smart. Although the ...

News: GDC 2010 attracts record industry numbers

17 March 2010 | The 2010 Game Developer's Conference, which ended in San Francisco on Saturday, attracted a record industry turn out of over 18,000, the show's organisers have confirmed. ...

Interview: LucasArts’ Darrell Rodriguez

17 March 2010 | Read more...

News: Bethesda to publish new title from inXile Entertainment

16 March 2010 | Fallout publisher Bethesda has picked up inXile's latest dungeon romp, Hunted: The Demon's Forge, for release on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The title is being overseen by ...

News: Registration opens for Develop 2010

16 March 2010 | Registration is now open for Develop in Brighton, taking place July 13-15, 2010, with a number of early bird discounts on offer until June 7. One, two or three day ...

News: PlayStation Home audience hits 12 million

16 March 2010 | The worldwide userbase for the PlayStation Home virtual world now stands at 12 million users, according to comments made by Sony's Jack Buser. Speaking at the recently ...

News: Microsoft patents online upselling

16 March 2010 | Microsoft has patented a new system of purchasing downloadable content via an automatic prompt, which attempts to ensure all players in the game have the same updates. ...

Facebook Boots Grow Up Australia Group

17 March 2010 |Citing a violation of its terms of use, social website Facebook has removed the group page of the pro R18+ organization Grow Up Australia.A message from Facebook, while not specific, offered that “groups that are hateful, ...

Lords Pass Digital Economy Bill

17 March 2010 |The British House of Lords has pushed through the latest version of the Digital Economy Bill, which features provisions that would put the onus on ISPs to track and report illegal file sharers and copyright violators.The Bill, ...

One Solution for DRM-Free Games: Wait

17 March 2010 |As DRM technology becomes more invasive, an article on CNET takes a look at the methods used and offers some possible suggestions for DRM-free gaming.The reaction to Ubisoft’s DRM, which requires a constant Internet ...

FCC Unveils National Broadband Plan

17 March 2010 |The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released its National Broadband Plan to Congress.FCC Chair Julius Genachowski called the document an “action plan” for a “21st century roadmap to spur economic ...

Fellowship Funds Year-Long Study of Asian Game Culture

17 March 2010 |Spending a year studying the culture of gamers in East Asia sure sounds like a lot of fun even if you had to pay for it yourself, but imagine how much better it would be if the whole trip was paid for by a fellowship grant.Lawrence ...

Venezuela: Violent Games Banned, Internet Censorship Next?

16 March 2010 |As a result of a Venezuelan website falsely reporting the death of a senior government minister, the Internet has now draw the ire of the South American country’s president Hugo Chavez.The Venezuelan website NoticieroDigital ...

G4C Constitution Hinges Around “Don’t be a Dick”

16 March 2010 |As time winds down before Australia's March 20th elections, Gamers4Croydon continues to up its presence.The group issued a call to arms announcement via its Steam Community presence, in which it outlines its policies, candidates ...

AU Paper Runs Game Retailer Rating Sting

16 March 2010 |Australia’s Sun-Herald recently conducted a field test to determine local retailers adherence to videogame ratings.The sting used a 14-year old boy named Peter (pictured), who was ‘described as looking even ...

U.S. Military Eying Larger Role for Games in Troop Training

16 March 2010 |The U.S. Military, already a big practitioner of videogame-based training for its members, plans to spend even more on the technology in the future.In a bid to cut battlefield casualties the Pentagon has approved an ...

MSU-Developed Game Teaches Kids to Avoid Landmines

16 March 2010 |A game in development at Michigan State University was designed to teach Cambodian kids, and others around the world, how to avoid landmines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) that might be scattered about their ...

Molyneux says Heavy Rain offers the ‘first glimpses of the future’ of games

17 March 2010 | If only Sony had waited until after the South by Southwest festival to release Heavy Rain, the publisher could have printed several glowing quotes from a known Xbox consorter on the back of the PS3-exclusive's game box. Oh, well ...

Pac-Man Battle Royale: competitive Pac-Man for omnivores

17 March 2010 |As advertised, Namco Bandai brought a prototype of its new Pac-Man Battle Royale to the 2010 Amusement Expo. Arcade Heroes captured some off-screen footage of the multiplayer arcade title (posted after the break), revealing a cross ...

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions teased by GamePro

17 March 2010 | We were busy ogling the suitable-for-framing cover art of the May issue of GamePro just posted by mag boss John Davison when we noticed a title we didn't recognize: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. Considering how well-informed ...

Borderlands ‘Double Game Add-on Pack’ arrives April 6 in NA, April 9 ‘internationally;’ not coming t

17 March 2010 | "A two pack?" you ask, confused by today's announcement of the Borderlands DLC retail package. "But doesn't that game have three DLC packs? And aren't there more coming?" Yeah, sure, and you might even have a point! But for now, ...

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep to be born unto the U.S. this summer

17 March 2010 | Square Enix is sure hoping that the recent release of its long-in-production RPG hasn't caused you to forget about its other long-in-production RPG: The PSP-exclusive Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. The company recently sent a ...

Amazon’s Forza 3 and ODST 360 Elite bundle now available at Gamestop

17 March 2010 | There are plenty of reasons to be wary about buying expensive electronics over the internet. They could be forever lost to shipping accidents. You could have trust issues about purchasing items from faceless vendors. Or maybe ...

IGN layoffs hit all divisions of media giant

17 March 2010 | Joystiq has obtained an internal IGN memo sent by company president Roy Bahat announcing layoffs at the media site today. We currently have no accurate estimate for the number of people let go today, nor do we know if any ...

3D Dot Game Heroes trailer satisfies thirst for adventure

17 March 2010 |Have you seen those Dos Equis commercials, with the "Most Interesting Man in the World?" He doesn't always drink beer, but when he does, he prefers Dos Equis? No? Go ahead and watch the commercials now before heading past the break ...

Dragon Age: Origins discounted until Thursday on Steam

17 March 2010 | Steam is having a "midweek madness" sale on Dragon Age: Origins until Thursday at 4PM PST. BioWare's fantasy epic is discounted 33 percent, making the regular and "digital deluxe" editions $33.49 and $43.54, respectively. Of ...

Battlefield Heroes gets decked out in Bad Company 2 gear

17 March 2010 | When EA DICE decided to release some downloadable armaments in the original Battlefield: Bad Company, it proved to be a fairly unpopular decision. However, the recently found a way to outfox the gaming community, releasing Bad ...

Donkey Kong Country 2 Inspires Three-Disc Music Remix Album

17 March 2010 | Two and a half years ago, the enormously talented community at OverClocked Remix set about creating the ultimate Donkey Kong Country 2 remix album. Featuring 1.25GB of amazing free music, the end result is definitely Serious ...

Play Need For Speed World For Free… And A Little Work

17 March 2010 | Do you feel the need to speed constantly with a whole bunch of other people? Black Box Studios has kicked off the closed beta test for Need for Speed World, adding thousands of testers over the next few months. (more…)

Sony: Bright Light, Wii Similarities Won’t Deep-Six PlayStation Move

17 March 2010 |Sony’s new PlayStation Move controller made headlines last week as it added Wii-like controls to the PlayStation 3. But a key difference in the tech, one lauded by Sony, could hurt the device. So could a lack of innovative ...

How To Break Into The Video Game Translation Business

17 March 2010 | I often get questions from aspiring translators about what kind of job I have and how to break into the translation industry, so I thought I’d write a FAQ-style post answering these questions once and for all. If there is ...

Yakuza 4 Makes Porn Star Nervous, Pure Popstar Sexy

17 March 2010 |For Japanese gangster game Yakuza 4, SEGA held an open casting call for wanna-bes to appear in the game. Among those selected was adult video actress Rio, star of films Squirting Young Wife and Let’s Have Sex at School. ...

Rumour: Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Has Freezing Issues

17 March 2010 | In the West, role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII is a multi-platform game, getting a release on the Xbox 360 and the PS3. While the PS3 version might look better, individuals are claiming that there are freezing issues. (more…)

Mass Effect? More Like Ass Effect

17 March 2010 |When Mass Effect cosplay meets Russian booth babes, subtlety goes right out the window. As seen on Break.

How Jeff Bridges Prepared For Tron

17 March 2010 | The original Tron was released in 1982. That was the golden age of arcade gaming. Arcade games and arcade culture was centre to film. And to the making of it, too. (more…)

The Great Battlefield Crossover Experiment

17 March 2010 |With public interest in free-to-play shooter Battlefield Heroes at critical levels following EA’s controversial changes to the game’s pay structure, the publisher is trying to light a fire under the game with a ...

Brits Build Real Life Modern Warfare 2 Level

17 March 2010 |The team from Britain’s FiveFWD gadget show were feeling crafty the other day, so went and built themselves a full-scale replica of “The Pit”, Modern Warfare 2’s training area. (more…)

Dave Perry: OnLive Pricing In Gaikai’s Favour

17 March 2010 |David Perry has said the recent announcement of streaming service OnLive's pricing has been a "shot in the arm&quo read more

Study: New Games Harm School Work

17 March 2010 |<!--paging_filter-->A new study has been published that concludes that videogames can impact on kids' school work.According to the study, young boys who receive their first console show no signs of improvement in reading or ...

Bleszinski: Motion Control Is “Very Interesting”

17 March 2010 | Epic's Cliff Bleszinski has said he finds motion controllers "very interesting" but favours those like Natal which don't rely on any hand-held controller. read more

Sony: PS3 Shortages “Not Ideal” As God of War III Launches

17 March 2010 |Sony Computer Entertainment America is suffering from PS3 shortages at a key moment for the company. While God Of War III launched in North America today, the LA Times reports that a number of Best Buy, GameStop and Target stores ...

Lots Of Sony Studios At Work On 3D Games

17 March 2010 |“A lot” of Sony Computer Entertainment studios are working on stereoscopic 3D games for PS3. “We've been amazed by the enthusiasm from the developers," SCE UK engineer Ian Bickerstaff told Gamasutra. read more

GDC: How To Balance Halo

17 March 2010 |<!--paging_filter-->In one of the most fascinating sessions of GDC, Bungie designer Jaime Griesemer talked about the art of game balancing, illustrating his views with the apparently tiny decision to extend the rate of fire ...

Nintendo: We’re Not Good At Making Core Games

17 March 2010 |Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime says he’d like to see more core games released for Wii, but admits the company has to rely on third parties as it's not Nintendo’s specialist field. “For us, it is ...

GDC Sees Record Attendance

17 March 2010 |A record 18,250 game industry professionals attended GDC 2010 in San Francisco. Held at the Moscone Convention Center from March 9-13, the event surpassed last year's total of 17,000 visitors, according to its organisers. As well ...

Gears Of War 3 Releasing April 2011 – Source

17 March 2010 |<!--paging_filter-->Microsoft will launch Gears Of War 3 in early April 2011, a trusted US publishing source has told Edge.The first teaser trailer for the third person shooter is expected to debut next month on April 8, ...

Community Spotlight

17 March 2010 |Highlights from our community-written blogs, featuring PlayStation Home's potential for gaming and the emotional impact of Heavy Rain. EvilRedEye plays Sodium, an action MMOG based in PlayStation Home, and he finds what he plays ...

Videogame Movie Spectacular

17 March 2010 |Hollywood gets revenge for all the terrible videogame versions of movies.

If Modern Games Were Around on the Atari [CHART]

17 March 2010 |Some games just wouldn't have worked back then.

Blizzard Hopes for StarCraft 2 Mac Beta in April

17 March 2010 |The StarCraft 2 beta is on PC, but Mac users have been feeling left out in the cold. A Q&A;at the Battle.net forums gives Apple users some hope to try the game before it launches. "We are currently working on a Mac version of the ...

Bethesda Announces New RPG: Hunted - Preview Inside

17 March 2010 |RPG software giant Bethesda is bringing us a completely new RPG...

God of War III pre-orders hit half a million in the Americas

17 March 2010 |God of War III narrowly beats out Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver with 485,000 pre-orders in the Americas, both games release next week

Oddest Video Game Marketing, Don’t Drop the Soap

17 March 2010 |*****

Whoa ‘Mass Effect’ Girl!

17 March 2010 |Just another hot Mass Effect girl.

11 Awesome “Mario Bros” Creations (PICS)

16 March 2010 |When Mario was first introduced, he was playing second fiddle to Donkey Kong and was just called "Jumpman." Lame. Now look at him. 30 years have passed and fans are still paying tribute to the portly plumber, bringing him (and his ...

A Gorgeous Gallery of the Best Princess Zelda Cosplayer Ever

16 March 2010 |We’ve featured a lot of cosplayers on this site in the past year or so, but I’m not sure we’ve ever seen one quite like this, which is why she’s getting her own post.

1UP Mushroom (PIC)

16 March 2010 |Photographer Jon Beard, who normally photographs broken light bulbs at the exact moment the filament burns altered this still because, "What can I say? I grew up gaming and learned that if you break enough objects you'll eventually ...

Designer Builds Coffin For Xbox’s Suffering RROD

17 March 2010 |angry tapir writes "The Xbox 360 RROD coffin is created by Aussie designer Alexis Vanamois, and it does exactly what it says on the tin. It's the ultimate final resting place for 'bricked' Xbox 360 consoles that have suffered the ...

Bethesda Unveils New Co-op Dungeon Crawler

16 March 2010 |Bethesda Softworks took advantage of the recent Game Developers Conference to take the wraps off a new game called Hunted: The Demon's Forge that they're partnering with development studio inXile to create. It's planned for the PC, ...

BioShock 2’s First DLC Already On Disc

16 March 2010 |An anonymous reader writes with this quote from 1Up: "Trouble is brewing in Rapture. The recently released Sinclair Solutions multiplayer pack for BioShock 2 is facing upset players over the revelation that the content is already ...

Mario Reduced To 8x8 With Open Source and Arduino

15 March 2010 |adeelarshad82 writes "The open-source Arduino electronics platform has received a ton of attention from the hardware enthusiast community. And one more follower is joining the fray--Mario himself. The mustachioed plumber of console ...

Mario Reduced To 8x8 With Open Source and Arduino

15 March 2010 |adeelarshad82 writes "The open-source Arduino electronics platform has received a ton of attention from the hardware enthusiast community. And one more follower is joining the fray--Mario himself. The mustachioed plumber of console ...

How Sony and Microsoft Hope To Crack the Motion Control Market

15 March 2010 |An editorial at Eurogamer delves into what Sony and Microsoft hope to achieve with their upcoming console motion control systems, despite entering the market several years after Nintendo set the standard. "The cards Sony has placed ...

How Sony and Microsoft Hope To Crack the Motion Control Market

15 March 2010 |An editorial at Eurogamer delves into what Sony and Microsoft hope to achieve with their upcoming console motion control systems, despite entering the market several years after Nintendo set the standard. "The cards Sony has placed ...

Licensing an Abandonware Game?

14 March 2010 |WolverineOfLove writes "I'm recreating a 1980s abandonware game with copyrights that have been seemingly unused for the past 18 years. The situation is detailed further in a Slashdot journal entry I just wrote, but in short: Is it ...

Licensing an Abandonware Game?

14 March 2010 |WolverineOfLove writes "I'm recreating a 1980s abandonware game with copyrights that have been seemingly unused for the past 18 years. The situation is detailed further in a Slashdot journal entry I just wrote, but in short: Is it ...

University of Wyoming Studies Video Games

13 March 2010 |krou writes "The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting story about how the University of Wyoming's English Department is helping fund a collective called the Learning Games Initiative to study video games. Jason Thompson, an ...