VentureBeat:
Next Island is the latest company to launch an ambitious virtual world. But this sci-fi adventure paradise comes with an interesting twist: time travel. The company is announcing today that it is building a world in the Entro (Read More)
GameSetWatch:
In our latest employment-specific round-up, we highlight some of the notable jobs posted in big sister site Gamasutra's industry-leading game jobs section this week, including positions from Relic Entertainment, Zoe Mode and (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Sony keeps flip-flopping over adding music downloads to the PlayStation Network (PSN). After scrapping plans to add a music store to the gaming network—complete with the ability (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Facebook has banned offer providers Gambit and Tatto Media from providing offers in games and apps on the social network.The development is one of the results of the recent scandal around the quality of offers in social games (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Most serious gamers might seem easy to buy for at first: games! But they probably are buying most games they really want right when they're released. So you've got to be a bit more creative than that. BTW, if you hate the gal (Read More)
Serious Games Source News:
Serious Games Interactive has released the latest title in its Global Conflicts series of PC games that promote awareness of social issues. Global Conflicts: Sweatshops is a 3D role-playing simulation game that focuses on chi (Read More)
Serious Games Source News:
The Triangle Game Conference has announced a call for panel, lecture, and roundtable speakers for its upcoming 2010 event focused on the interactive entertainment and serious games industries. Currently, Triangle is searching (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Hundreds of thousands of Xbox 360 users who have illegally modified their console to play copied games have been disconnected from the online Xbox Live service as part of an ann (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Yesterday, we exposed how easy it is to fall for a Video Professor scam playing "Friend For Sale," from Facebook gamesmaker Serious Business.Today, Serious Business reached us to say the ad in question was placed by an ad net (Read More)
Gizmodo:
On one hand, what's happening here is very simple: Rock Band's singing feature just senses pitch, not words, so it's perfectly reasonable that a flute—or indeed almost any instrument—could do the trick. On the other? This i (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Social games industry leader Zynga has gotten a lot of heat for making money indirectly through lead-generation scams. But it's hardly the only guilty party.Facebook and app-maker Serious Games must be counted too.Casual game (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Last week Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said that they would take steps to remove scammy advertising offers from their social games. There have been a couple of missteps since then, and Facebook responded by taking Zynga’s newest gam (Read More)
Gizmodo:
You've had it. Maybe with AT&T. Maybe with Apple's crushing, dictatorial grip strangling the App Store. Whatever the reason, you're going to Android: Land of freedom, carriers not named AT&T, and the great Google. Here's what (Read More)
Gizmodo:
You've had it. Maybe with AT&T. Maybe with Apple's crushing, dictatorial grip strangling the App Store. Whatever the reason, you're going to Android: Land of freedom, carriers not named AT&T, and the great Google. Here's what (Read More)
VentureBeat:
John Carmack is the programming wiz at id Software, the Mesquite, Texas-based company that pioneered the first-person shooter game genre that has generated billions of dollars in the game industry since 1993. Now Carmack has (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Futuremark made a name for itself by creating benchmarks that measured exactly how fast a personal computer could run a game with rich 3-D graphics. Its benchmarks were the gold standard that helped game fanatics buy the comp (Read More)
Gizmodo:
It's this simple: If you don't buy an iPhone, buy a Droid. It's the best phone on Verizon, and with Android 2.0, the second best smartphone you can buy, period. It's flawed, deeply in some ways. But it's the second best phone (Read More)
Gizmodo:
A year ago, Android was an unfinished OS for nerds, bursting with potential. With Android 2.0, it's evolved into something sleeker, more refined and focused—but still something not quite human. Over the last year, Android's e (Read More)
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GameSetWatch:
Organizers for the 2009 European Innovative Games Award (EIGA) ceremony -- taking place on November 6th in Frankfurt -- announced its short list of award candidates picked out by the EIGA jury from more than 70 submissions. E (Read More)