If you’ve always wanted to know how you would fare in the Hunger Games universe, then there is good news. Kabam, an interactive video game company, recently announced plans to bring the popular series to mobile devices everywhere. Lionsgate will…
Teen Drowns After Game Goes Terribly Wrong
Just a few hours after graduating high school, Chance Werner, 18, of Cartersville, Georgia, died after a game he and his friends were playing went terribly wrong. Werner and several of his friends were hanging out at Lake Allatoona, which…
McDonald’s Monopoly Game Is Back
McDonald’s longtime popular Monopoly sweepstakes game is back! It’s not hard to play the game. All you have to do is pick up a Monopoly board from your local McDonald’s, and then buy the menu items that contain the two-stamp…
Angry Birds To Get A Role-Reversing Sequel Later This Year
Chances are that if you have an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android phone, Chrome browser, or Facebook account, you’ve played Angry Birds. And if you haven’t played it, you’ve certainly heard of it. Released in December of 2009 for iPhone,…
South Park: Scott Tenorman’s Revenge Trailer
The South Park crew are set to embark on a platform adventure for XBOX Live. They have just released the trailer for Scott Tenorman’s Revenge. The game is developed by Other Ocean Interactive, in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios…
‘South Park’ may be affected by Obsidian Lay-offs
Obsidian Entertainment is going through a round of lay-offs this week. In an interview with Joystiq, a source close to Obsidian said the team working on the new South Park RPG was affected, and an unnamed project has been cancelled.…
Boondock Saints Video Game Announced At SXSW
Fans of the film “The Boondock Saints” have been waiting a long time to hear news of a video game, and yesterday they got it at the Austin, TX event South By Southwest. Although the official announcement included more of…
NASA Announces Multiplayer Facebook Game
NASA has announced a launch of a different kind today. The space agency’s first online multiplayer game, Space Race Blast Off, is available on Facebook today. The game tests players knowledge of science, technology, space-related pop culture, NASA’s history, and…
SoulCalibur Comes To iOS
Namco has brought their popular fighting game SoulCalibur to iOS devices today. The game is available as a universal iOS app in the Apple App Store as of this morning. It currently sells for $11.99 thanks to a 20% off…
SWTOR: Star Wars The Old Republic Launches, Early Review
There’s already one important birth celebrated in December, now we have two. Early this morning, at 12:01 A.M., the servers for Star Wars: The Old Republic went live. Thousands of gamers scrambled to their various PvE, PvP, and RP servers…
Big Ideas Digital, iOS Game Developer Raises Money To Help Girl Walk
Grace Windram is a five year old girl in the UK, who has been living with Spastic Dyplegic Cerebral Palsy. It has left her with the inability to walk. However, a surgery which is available in the US will provide…
Kiip Offers Ad Based Rewards For Mobile Gaming
Imagine playing your favorite game on the iPhone, and upon making it to the final level and defeating the stage boss you’re offered a free cheeseburger at your favorite restaurant. Would such a system bring about positive or negative feelings…
Second Life Attempts To Make Rebound
You probably have forgotten about Second Life (the virtual world from Linden Labs), right?
Remember, that’s that virtual world that got a TON of hype back in 2005/6. It was on the cover of magazines. On CNN and other TV shows. It looked like it was going to be THE new thing of the decade.
What happened?
Well, a few things.
Star Trek Online Has People Tweeting In Klingon
Twitter…the final frontier. These are the voyages of game-maker Atari. Its 2-month mission: to explore strange new social networks, to seek out new geeks and new game players, to boldly go where no ad campaign has gone before!
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