'Nintendo is feeling the sting of competition from the iPhone,' writes Peter Smith in a recent post. 'At least, that's the feeling one gets when reading Nintendo president Satoru Iwata's thoughts on the future of Nintendo handhelds. Accordin...
TechCrunch is running a story about the prevalence of scams and shady monetization techniques in popular social games on Facebook and MySpace. As an alternative to buying in-game currency with real money, many games make use of lead-generati...
A team with members from Microsoft, the University of Toronto, and the University of Washington have developed an interface that uses electrodes to monitor muscle signals and translate those into commands or button presses , allowing a user...
Who knew the N-Gage was still kicking? Well apparently it still is however, it looks like 2010 will be the end . From the announcement: 'While the N-Gage.com site together with the N-Gage Arena and other community features will remain in ope...
A recent Notice of Inquiry from the FCC is looking for opinions on how the evolving electronic media landscape affects kids, and whether the FCC itself should have more regulatory control over such media. The full NOI (PDF) is available onl...
Jon Stokes at the Opposable Thumbs blog relates his experience using Google Wave as a platform for Dungeons and Dragons the true test of success for any new communications technology. A post at Spirits of Eden lists some of Wave's strengths...
This morning, Nintendo announced the third upgrade to the DS family, the DSi LL (or DSi XL). It will be released in Japan on November 21, one year after the DSi debuted, for 20,000 (approx. $220). The LL's main improvement is the size of its...
Physicist Shahriar Afshar is famous as the designer of the ' Afshar Experiment ,' a study first described in 2004 that called into question Neils Bohr's observation that it's impossible to observe light's wave-like properties and its particl...
Game Politics makes note of criticism over leaked footage from the upcoming Modern Warfare 2 release. (Spoiler warning.) Footage shows the player engaged in killing civilians with terrorists (relevant video begins at about 1:50, second sourc...
Developer 2D Boy has posted the final results of their 'pay-what-you-want' experiment, selling their World of Goo game for an unrestricted price. After coming to the attention of Slashdot , a further ~26,000 sales were recorded, bringing the...
'There was a lot of talk yesterday about an article in the Japanese publication Nikkei which claimed that Nintendo was readying a new iteration of its DS line of handheld gaming systems,' writes blogger Peter Smith. 'The report claims the ne...
The marketing team at EA are doing a great job with promoting Dante's Inferno . Take a look at their 17 pounds of wrath ....
'Microsoft has always seemed rather enthusiastic when it comes to throwing around the word 'exclusive,' and here is another case in point,' says blogger Peter Smith. Netflix and Sony have announced that Netflix streaming is coming to the Son...
This editorial at Eurogamer examines how the games industry is dealing with the growth of digital distribution a transition they're handling better than other entertainment industries, but not without a few stumbling blocks of their own. Th...
theguythatwrotethisthing sends in a write-up of his experience releasing an iPhone game on the App Store. By using a software flag to distinguish between high scores submitted by pirates and those submitted by users who purchased the game,...