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Defiance: The First Interconnected Game & TV Show
Released earlier this month, Defiance is an ambitious multiplatform, massively multiplayer online shooter created by Trion Worlds. The release was surrounded by more hype than your average MMO, largely due to the fact the game is tied closely to the sci-fi television show with the same name. Trion Worlds... Read more
Will the Next Generation Xbox Integrate TV Feeds?
The world of console gaming is eagerly awaiting the release of Microsoft’s next generation Xbox, expected to be announced next month. But the latest reports are likely to make the waiting even harder: the Xbox 360 successor may feature a stronger integration with your TV and cable box. Xbox... Read more
Video Games Help Kids With Pain Management
Washington D.C.’s Children’s National Medical Center began using video games to help treat pain in young patients last week. These specially designed video games combine Microsoft’s Kinect technology with game activities that assists the child’s physical therapy while keeping their mind off the pain. The games also help doctors... Read more
Microsoft Kodu Lets Kids Create Their Own Video Games
Kodu is a kid friendly software that gives young children the power to design video games with an easy to use, visual programming language. Educational tools that teach programming skills to children are now becoming more popular and increasingly more valuable, giving the younger generation a head start in... Read more
Does Apple Want in on the Videogame Market?
With all of the upcoming consoles from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, the XBox 720,the PlayStation 4 and the Wii U are going to have some more major competition. The $70 billion videogame market is a large pie that Apple intends to get a big piece of. And it is... Read more
Unreal Engine 4 Changes Gaming
Epic Games displayed its innovative gaming platform at this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC 2013). The Unreal Engine 4 gives the power to game developers through the new Unreal Kismet, which allows for  graphic creation and updates while being in-game and in real-time, with instant visual results. Though the... Read more
The Rise of Game Apps, The Fall of Handheld Consoles
With the price and availability of today’s tablets and smartphones, it is a must for most everyone that is constantly on the go.  With a seemingly endless variety of applications there is a convergence of information, communication and gaming all in one handheld device. Projected sales for handheld game... Read more
Hearthstone: The Online Card Game of Epic Proportions
Blizzard Entertainment is stepping out of its comfort zone, and for the first time, has set out to create a game that is much smaller in scale and more easily accessible than the company’s previous games, while maintaining the epic player experience that the company is so well known... Read more
Epic Win Turns Chores into an RPG
Sometimes it’s much more fun to procrastinate on daily tasks, and play a video game instead. If you agree, the iPhone app, Epic Win may be just the motivation you need to complete your dreaded chores, and have fun doing it. Video games draw you in and motivate you... Read more
Story War: A New Card Game for Geeks
Story War is a storytelling card game that encourages computergeeks to turn of their computers and interact with each other in real life. The game has been drawing a lot of attention on it’s Kickstarter campaign page. The original goal of the campaign was to raise $20,000. By the... Read more
Samsung Galaxy S IV A Sony PlayStation 4 Competitor?
In what universe? Believe it or not, it might very well be a possibility in our own universe, in our time. The Samsung Galaxy SIV has been officially unveiled, and while Samsung’s stock took a tumble after that event, one cannot ignore the impressive power that the latest Galaxy... Read more
Microsoft Making Kinect More ‘Gesture-Friendly’
The Kinect motion technology has been around for a while. Users can wave their hands to operate the Kinect devices, which has made it a great option for games like Xbox 360 to deploy. Microsoft, though, have gone one step further by working to make the technology read and... Read more
SimCity Hack Allows For Offline Play, Solves Server Issues
EA servers threw a fit when the company brought SimCity online. That hiccup angered millions of fans who had purchased the popular game but were unable to play. The new SimCity requires users to log into an EA server at which time their games data is saved for later... Read more
Deadpool Finally Gets His Own Game
Marvel Comic’s “Merc with a Mouth” has developed a cult-like following from his previous battles with heros and villains alike. Deadpool, who made his comic book debut in 1997 finally gets his own game. Deadpool was first revealed at the 2012 San Diego Comic Con, however High Moon Studios... Read more
Botched Launch Sees SimCity Gamers Locked Out
The latest instalment of popular city-building computer game SimCity has not been the smoothest – following server crashes and angry, locked out players. Following its launch in North America on March 5, servers for the video game, which has a new added ‘online’ element, filled up in a matter... Read more
Sony PlayStation 4 Social and Remote Features
Sony finally announced that the PlayStation 4 would hit the markets later this year. It has been a while since the third generation gaming console was launched and fans have been waiting for the next one. The wait is not quite over yet as PlayStation 4 would go on... Read more
PlayStation 4 Privacy Settings: Real Names Might Be Required
The PlayStation 4 announcement day has come and gone, and what have we gotten from it? More anticipation for the next generation console, if nothing else. We have high hopes that the PlayStation 4 will be affordable. We know it’s going to be much more powerful, and we know... Read more
Dust 514: A New Kind of Strategic Game
Two great games collide as CCP brings forth it’s latest game, Dust 514, and blends it with the player driven, intergalactic MMORPG world of EVE.  This console game is a strategic, first-person shooter, hybrid MMO that will be exclusively for PS3 and Vita. A Gaming Mash-up CCP is innovatively... Read more