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| URL : | http://blogs.forbes.com/insertcoin/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Entertainment / Video Games | |
| Posts on Regator: | 517 | |
| Posts / Week: | 4.5 | |
| Archived Since: | March 8, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Atari US Files for Bankruptcy, Sells Assets, Logo
In an effort to untangle itself from its parent company, the France-based Atari SA, Atari US has filed for bankruptcy and will sell all its assets in the next three to four months. They have already locked down a debtor-in-possession investment of $5.25M from investment advisory Tenor Capital Management and hope the move will land them some fresh business. What [...]
Jay Wilson’s Tumultuous Diablo 3 Ride Comes to an End
Months ago when Diablo 3 was a new release, we covered the constant parade of controversy that occurred when the game didn’t live up to some fan’s expectations. There were issues with the auction house, item drops, gameplay and so on, and one man was usually at the center of the storm. That was Jay Wilson, Game Director, who [...]
Video Games are Now Cigarettes with New Proposed Taxes, Labels and Restrictions
Video games are the new cigarettes. At least that’s what some in the federal government believe. In the wake over the Obama administration’s pledge to further “study the link between video games and violent behavior,” other lawmakers want to go one step further, and a pair of new bills have been introduced around the country [...]
Obama Calls for Government Funded Research Into Violent Video Games
I just finished reading through the complete list of executive orders that Obama just signed in the wake of Joe Biden’s fact finding mission about the cause of gun violence. It’s a bookend to something we’ve been discussing all week when it was revealed that Biden would be meeting with video game industry executives about [...]
Buy Dead Island Riptide, Get Horrifying Bikini Zombie Torso
For as much as gaming is moving forward in recent years, gaining acceptance among the public as an art form that appeals to more than just teenage boys and shut-in weirdos, some in the industry seem to be doing everything in their power to reverse course. Such is the case today, when we learn that [...]
Fun with Reductio ad Absurdum, the NRA and Video Games
I wrote earlier today about my playthrough of the NRA’s newest target shooting/gun safety simulation iOS game. It seemed to be more than a bit strange that the NRA was coming out with their own video game just weeks after heaping blame on the medium for real life violence. Those pushing back against calling this [...]
Playing Through the NRA’s New Video Game for Ages Four and Up
The most outspoken critic of the video game industry in the weeks after the Sandy Hook shooting has been the NRA, content to shift the blame for the tragedy, and all others like it, away from guns. They’ve specifically called out games like Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse as being contributors to mass murder, while calling [...]
Gearbox Turned Down Making a Call of Duty Game
With the release of Borderlands in 2009, developer Gearbox released a title that brought new life to a shooter genre that felt like it was growing stale over the years. Turns out their fresh approach to gameplay caught the eye of Activision, the company behind arguably one of the more stale series in the genre, [...]
Biden Meets with Video Game Leaders, Acknowledges ‘No Silver Bullet’
Today Joe Biden met with representatives of the video game industry for a sit down that questioned the industry’s role, or lack thereof, in mass shootings around the country We’ve talked about why it’s unfortunate that video games and guns are being lumped together as causes of events like this, but everyone was curious as to [...]
The Ten Best Selling Games of the 2012 – Industry Down 22%
NPD has released their end of year figures for the financial state of the video game industry, and the news isn’t great. Retail sales of hardware, software and accessories are down 22% over last year, which equates to $3.73B less being spent on video games in 2012. They also released a list of the best [...]
First Look at Microsoft’s Cool if Impractical ‘IllumiRoom’
Everyone’s wondering what new gimmicks the new console generation may bring, and at CES showed one possible idea. It’s a research project called “IllumiRoom” which uses Kinect and a projector to paint a picture of a video game landscape that extends far beyond the constraints of a household TV. The developers say it can “change [...]
Joe Biden Meeting with Video Game Industry About Gun Violence
It’s been a well known fact that Joe Biden has been tasked with formulating the Obama administration’s response to the shootings at Sandy Hook, and all the others that have come before it. He’s talking to lawmakers, gun lobbies and one final group that’s raising a few eyebrows, members of the entertainment and video game [...]
Why Won’t Nintendo Make a Pokemon Console Game?
Yesterday, announced something we all knew was coming, a new pair of Pokemon game for the 3DS, X and Y. As surely as day follows night, a Pokemon game will be released for any new handheld, as it’s always by far the biggest draw of the system for fans. From the debut trailer and Iwata’s [...]
Pokemon is Finally Evolving with Versions X and Y
A Nintendo handheld without a Pokemon title is like Ash without Pikachu, as the two have been inseparable for years and resulting in millions upon millions of sales. Pokemon titles are the lifeblood of Nintendo’s portable systems, and it was obviously only going to be a matter of time before one was announced for the [...]
HBO and Universal Strike 10-Year Exclusive Deal, Wage War on Netflix
There are more than a few people misinterpreting a story today about HBO and Universal inking a 10-year exclusive deal that keeps content off. It’s not that HBO is keeping its current or past shows off. That fact is likely to be a given for as long as HBO exists, as evidenced by [...]
Connecticut Town to Buy Back, Burn Violent Video Games
We’ve previously documented the way the media has blamed video games in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy. Once it was revealed that the killer was a fan of Starcraft, a relatively non-violent strategy game, the age old witch hunt began again from blog posts to full-on segments on CNN. Then the NRA came [...]
Australia Finally Gets Its R18+ Video Game Rating
Too often in America, we tend to forget the plights of our friends around the world. Though there are far more pressing issues on Earth than video games, in terms of our own little corner here, it’s worth remembering that has had a rough go of it for years when it’s come to gaming. First, [...]
Zynga Puts PetVille to Sleep, Along with 10 Other Titles
It’s a new year and Zynga’s hoping it will be a fresh start, as they’ve seen their stock prices plummet since their IPO in 2011. Major changes are underway at the company from layoffs to office closures, and now perhaps the most drastic measure to date has been announced. Zynga is axing 11 of their [...]
20 Gaming Journalism New Year’s Resolutions for 2013
Well, it’s almost 2013 and more than a few of us are working on New Year’s resolution lists that probably have forms of diet and exercise scrawled across them. But it got me thinking about how I want to change in the new year as a games journalist. There have been many ups and downs [...]
Blizzard Scraps Diablo 3 Team Deathmatch, Starts Over
Even this long after launch, the hits just keep coming for Diablo 3. The game took probably more than its fair share of lumps during release as players expecting the second coming found a game that was just alright, and lamented everything from underpowered skills and weapons to the auction house to the lack of [...]