Steve Preeg picked up an Oscar win last night for his work on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. He is an accomplished visual effects artists that has worked on projects ranging from titles like Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, and others.
He also runs his own guild in [...]
It’s round two between Nintendo and Apple for dominance of the portable gaming market. Nintendo is shaken by the always-available games offered up on the App Store at low prices for the iPhone. Screen size, a touch interface, and a built-in accelerometer seem to have Nintendo grasping for the ropes. Will the reigning champion Nintendo [...]
Let’s cut right to the chase here, in time of troubled economy why are we spending so much on games? You’ve got fifteen and sometimes thirty or forty dollars going in to a massive gaming addiction that might be better satisfied with something just as interesting without the added subscription fee. This is where so [...]
The Gaming Control Board has issued a warning to casinos in Las Vegas giving strong caution in response to an application called iBlackjack on the iPhone and iPod Touch. This application is designed to make card counting easy and can operate while the screen is off on the device making it more difficult to detect.
In [...]
Can’t it be both? The new game Flower, released just days ago for a low price of $10 USD and made available to users of the PlayStation 3 Network, has decided to break out of the typical gaming box and create an experience that has every intention to invoke emotion rather than strategy or blood [...]
Do you remember your first video game? Perhaps you recall seemingly endless sessions of blowing on the underside of a Nintendo cart in an attempt to somehow magically get the thing to start properly when you hit the power button? Do you remember losing yourself in the world of an 8-bit game? You might want [...]
There is a certain boost of emotion that comes with hearing the news that a franchise is going back to its roots as its original creator is back at the helm. This is the case with the new Alien vs. Predator release. Sega is set to publish, Twentieth Century Fox is on board, and Rebellion [...]
As renting a movie becomes easier for the consumer, many of the old brick-and-mortar companies have come face to face with the theory of Darwinism in business. Either you adapt a new business model to meet the needs of modern consumers or you go out of business. Blockbuster has been taking serious steps towards adaptation [...]
This video could be a wake up call to anyone that doubts that games require skill and coordination. Danny Johnson, a 14-year-old from Grapevine, TX, managed to smash previous Guitar Hero III scoring records when he landed 973,954 doing “Through the Fire and Flames”. Danny Johnson has been broadcasting his intensive Guitar Hero III practice [...]
The New York Comic Con has just wrapped up and has delivered on the same principals it has become known for. You’ve got a touch of technology, gaming, popular culture, comics, and of course hot ladies in geeky outfits. The latter appears to be what this event has become known for among the Internet masses. [...]
