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  • 17 September 2013

  • News: Valve boss says Linux is the future of gaming, hints at Steam Box announcement

    Tell me if you've heard this one before: "Linux and open source are the future of gaming."

  • News: Deus ex mouse: Godus is a click-happy revival of classic god games

    I'm worried about tedium: if Godusis to be believed, crafting civilizations out of whole cloth involves so much clicking it's a wonder more gods haven't thrown up their hands in despair and gone off to do something else, leaving their minions to idle away on the beach wondering what it's all for. But then the game plays its next hand--a massive ruin sits on a plateau just out of reach, or confetti-esque particles tease the location of some bauble buried under the sand. And then it's off to work I go, stretching sandy beaches into land bridges and carving steppes out hillsides, expanding villages to keep my congregation growing.

  • 14 September 2013

  • News: Glory Days: Völgar the Viking dredges up, then pummels, your fondest memories

    We've all done things we've regretted--when I was young, I fell victim to the Sega Genesis' oh-so-edgy marketing scheme. Sonic (and his cohort Tails, my idol for a time) where waging war against a megalomaniacal scientist and his robot army. Mortal Kombat had blood, and true-to-arcade gory fatalities. Shinobi was a ninja! And Vectorman. Remember Vectorman? He was pretty cool. I begged my mother for a Sega Genesis as it was clearly the superior 16-bit console, and upon sampling Final Fantasy 3, Super Mario World, and Secret of Mana on a friend's Super Nintendo, realized my mistake and transformed into the bitter, jaded husk you see today.

  • 12 September 2013

  • News: Zynga settles with employee over alleged theft of game secrets

    Zynga said it had settled a lawsuit alleging theft of trade secrets by a former employee, with the employee also issuing an apology.

  • 11 September 2013

  • News: Steam's new Family Sharing system lets you both a borrower and a lender be

    Moochers rejoice: Valve is bringing game lending back in a big way. The company announced today that a new Family Sharing feature is coming to Steam in the near future, and a thousand Steam users will begin beta testing the Family Sharing system in mid-September. Early adopters can volunteer for testing duties by joining Steam's new Family Sharing Group.

  • News: Gigabyte levels up Brix mini-PC with Intel Iris Pro graphics

    Home theater PCs usually aren't gaming-worthy unless they're as large as proper game consoles, but not Gigabyte's latest Brix, which packs Intel's high-end Iris Pro integrated graphics.

  • 09 September 2013

  • News: Sony says the PlayStation 4 won't launch in Japan until 2014

    Well, this is unexpected. Sony announced Monday at its pre-Tokyo Games Show press conference that the PlayStation 4 game console will not launch in Japan this year.

  • News: You better lose yourself in this Eminem-Call of Duty crossover promotion

    Monday, Activision confirmed that Eminem's appearance at the Call of Duty: Ghosts event back in August was no accident.

  • News: Sony's PS Vita TV set-top box challenges Apple TV, Google Chromecast

    Going head-to-head with Apple and Google, Sony has launched the PlayStation Vita TV set-top box to bring video and games to TVs.

  • 06 September 2013

  • News: Keep your eye on these great indie games from PAX 2013

    Whether or not you agree with the founders of the Penny Arcade Expo, there's no arguing it's a key tool for independent and smaller developers. PAX is the only mainstream, widely-known video game conference in the United States that's also open to the public, and people come from all over to attend. Getting your game shown at PAX is a sure-fire ticket to a ton of exposure.

  • 05 September 2013

  • News: Call of Duty goes mobile with Strike Team

    What's this? A new Call of Duty game, on my iPad? Activision's preternaturally popular console and PC manshoot has made yet another foray to mobile devices, albeit with surprisingly little fanfare. At $6.99, Call of Duty: Strike Team sits on the pricier side of the app spectrum, but manages to serve up an interesting take on a genre that's growing all too familiar for my tastes.

  • 04 September 2013

  • News: Xbox One release date

    Microsoft's Xbox One will become available on Nov. 22 and the company has made the game console faster by cranking up the clock speeds of the CPU and graphics processor.

  • 03 September 2013

  • News: PAX 2013: Here's all the news that's worth your time

    PAX Prime, the Comic-Con of the video game industry, occurred this past weekend in Seattle. This year's event was a massive four-day undertaking that spanned the Labor Day weekend, with tens of thousands of fans crammed into the labyrinthine Washington State Convention Center.

  • 30 August 2013

  • News: Diggers on the move: Indie darling Terraria goes mobile

    I had a brief but passionate affair with Terraria back when it first launched on the PC in 2011. It was a heady time--my colleagues and I were in the grips of a shared obsession with Minecraft, and Re-logic's 2D entry into the nascent explore-and-build genre stimulated that drive to explore, build, and fight baddies in a style reminiscent of classic platformers. Terraria's requisite cave spelunking and resource hoarding is frequently interrupted by undead hordes and savage boss battles, and an increasingly ludicrous arrangement of powerups and equipment kept our interests piqued.

  • 29 August 2013

  • News: GameStick Android game console set for September 30 retail launch

    After several months of delays, GameStick has a final release date of September 30.

  • 28 August 2013

  • News: Struggling Nintendo announces 2DS handheld, cuts Wii U price

    These are desperate times for Nintendo, and so the game-system juggernaut will take a couple of desperate measures to get its hardware into more hands.

  • News: Nintendo cuts Wii U price, debuts 2DS handheld

    Nintendo cut the price on its flagship game console and introduced a portable system Wednesday, hoping to spur sales and better position itself for the year-end holiday season.

  • News: PES 2014 release date, features, screenshots and trailer

    Here's where we bring you PES 2014's release dates, new features, screenshots and official trailer.

  • News: Gamification: Using play to motivate employees and engage customers

    Smart businesspeople have long understood the value of competition as a motivator. Performance leaderboards hold a prominent place in sales offices, on factory floors, and in other business environments. Academic institutions use GPAs and class rankings to inspire a competitive edge. In a famous scene from David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the managers of a fictional real estate company spiced up their monthly sales contest with a tough-love pep talk from Alec Baldwin [NSFW].

  • 27 August 2013

  • News: Xbox One's massive, custom CPU can pick you out of a lineup

    Microsoft's Xbox One has a problem: you, and your family.

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