We could change the world if we played more games
As video games become more widespread and enter our everyday lives, online gaming is quickly becoming the main form of entertainment for many people. Games like World of Warcraft or Second Life attract thousands everyday who spend hours in virtual worlds. Many people think this is just an escape from… Continue Reading »
Sony Online releases new Convorteum add-on for Everquest Underfoot
Sony Online Entertainment announced today (March 11, 2010) that it will be adding a new Convorteum zone add-on to the EverQuest Underfoot PC game. Players can now log into to the latest and best so far expansion for Underfoot, plus you will receive a free bonus item just for logging… Continue Reading »
The Deepening, a modern choose-your-own-adventure web game
A couple guys named Ian and Brant Duncan have taken choose-your-own-adventures games to the next step and created one of the first ever live-action choose-your-own-adventure games called The Deepening. In the game, a terrorist group has broken into a bank, is holding everyone hostage and has planted a bomb in… Continue Reading »
Free Realms revs up with Speedway Thunder expansion
All you Free Realmers out there will be happy to know that the game’s already huge environment has just gotten, well, huge-r. Free Realms, the free-to-play online MMORPG has expanded the race car derby, Speedway Thunder. The additions, Kart Racers and Demo Derby Drivers, offer professional progression and allow players… Continue Reading »
Not so Inconceivable: Author hopes game will increase interest in books
There seems to be a recent trend in turning books into movies or video games. In an attempt to turn at least part of the trend back on itself, one writer is working books into games. According to an article in the New York Times, author PJ Haarsma was writing… Continue Reading »
Security experts say it’s safer to play MMOs at work
Massive Multiplayer Online games, or MMOs, are among the most popular genres and currently attract millions of users. One of the most popular, World of Warcraft, has recently surpassed nine million subscribers around the world. Users can trade goods and services in these virtual worlds and many times real money… Continue Reading »
MTV to pump $500 million into gaming
Videogames are certainly a lucrative business and MTV has decided to continue investing. In the past, MTV has made various videogame-related business acquisitions like Harmonix (developer of Guitar Hero and Rock Band), Atom Entertainment and Gametrailers.com to name a few. It has now investing an astronomical $500 million for continued… Continue Reading »
EA and Hasbro strike a deal
EA Casual, a newly launched arm of Electronic Arts, will be soon developing games based on popular Hasbro franchises. Hasbro and EA Casual have finalized a licensing deal. The games developer will churn out games for all conceivable platforms including consoles, web and mobile devices. This augurs well for EA… Continue Reading »
K2 Network launches site, plans to attend upcoming cons
K2 Network, publisher of several MMO titles, today (July 24, 2007) announced the launch of GamersFirst.net, a site dedicated to all of its current and upcoming titles. The site will contain information and download portals for all of the publisher’s titles, as well as a community area, gamer scene, an… Continue Reading »
Gametap invites Mac users into the fold
Intel based Mac users can now partake in the online tastiness that is Gametap.com. Gametap was the brilliant ploy of Turner Broadcasting System Inc. and, if you watched Saturday morning cartoons in 2005 (not me… okay me. Guilty pleasure.), you’ll remember their launch advertisements. Apparently they reached their target audience… Continue Reading »
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