Valve teases "wearable computing" research with augmented reality overlay
Following on recent rumors pointing to Valve's interest in entering the hardware market in some way, Valve developer Michael Abrash wrote in a blog post on Valve's official site about his...
Why are video game sales looking so weak lately? Blame Nintendo.
If you're the kind of person that pays attention to the monthly reports on new retail video game hardware and software sales from industry tracking firm NPD, then 2012 has looked...
LinkedIn leak points to Xbox Live "monetization" changes for holiday season
Where would we be, as journalists and news consumers, without LinkedIn and its members' penchant for listing upcoming projects and pending accomplishments well before the public relations gatekeepers are ready to...
Week in Gaming: EA’s "false advertising," Microsoft’s hexadecacore rumors
This week, we took a look at a Better Business Bureau bloggers' claim that EA's pre-release hype for Mass Effect 3 amounted to false advertising, and found the reasoning a little...
Valve looking to hire hardware engineers for unknown project
Those of you who reload the Valve job postings page every morning hoping to find a way out of your meaningless, dead-end career may have noticed that the esteemed game developer...
Review: Fez’s world-spinning puzzles drive us to distraction
It's hard to think of an indie game that has had more prerelease buzz and attention than Fez. Polytron's Phil Fish has been working on the game for nearly five years...
An in-depth look at the iPad as a gaming device
Writing for GamesIndustry International, Richard Leadbetter discusses the iPad as a gaming device and goes into great details about Apple's choice of internal components.
Apple's strategy with the new iPad seems to be to accommodate the Retin...
Rock Band Blitz dumbs the rhythm game down to timed thumb twiddling
When I heard that Harmonix would be showing off a new game at PAX East, I was incredibly excited to see what my favorite rhythm game developer had to offer. When...
Max Payne and Burnout Crash hit the iOS App Store
Two high-profile games, one from Rockstar Games and one from Electronics Arts, hit the iOS App Store today. The most anticipated of the two is Max Payne. The third-person shooter was originally created by Remedy Entertainment for the PC, and Rocks...



