Another day without a Dreamcast 2 announcement. Console yourself with the day’s other news stories instead: -EA laid off some BioWare Austin employees after Star Wars: The Old Republic subscribers dropped from 1.7 million to 1.3 million. -Google turns its Japanese site into a giant Moog simulator. -
video As part of a plan to simultaneously modernize its services and cut costs, Britain’s National Health Service has announced a test program to use videogames to guide the recovery of stroke patients. Since it’s time-consuming and expensive to have patients come into the doctor’s office for physi
video In an effort to keep its churning Call of Duty community sated, Activision has tossed a new scrap of meat into the lion’s den. “Face Off” mode is the central part of Modern Warfare 3‘s new DLC collection, out today, which allows joystick gladiators to grapple with one another in intimately de
Creating mods was once a central part of game culture, growing a vibrantly experimental subculture around jokes, experiments, and whole new types of play. In the last decade there has been a huge migration of PC developers coming into the safe but limiting arms of console manufacturers. Still, a nu
It’s been almost two years since Bungie’s last game, Halo: Reach, was released and details about their new games have been scant. But the studio’s plans were inadvertently made public this week by documents released as part of the on-going legal battle with Call of Duty co-creators Jason West and V
video To coincide with the release of the teaser trailer for 007: Skyfall, Sam Mednes’ turn at helm of the James Bond machine, Activision released a trailer for the Bond game it will release this fall to accompany the film. 007 Legends doesn’t actually have anything to do with Skyfall but is instea
Three years ago Jason Rohrer signed a deal to make his first game for a traditional publisher. The man bend the now iconic Passage (a game that seems to have made everybody cry, at some point), reached an agreement with Majesco to make an ambitious political game for the Nintendo DS. Diamond Trust o
Facebook’s IPO last Friday was by a major disappointment by most accounts. The implications of the underwhelming launch had a negative impact on Zynga, whose own IPO in late 2011 was similarly disappointing, closing at a lower price than it launched at. Is there a structural cause connecting the amb