The Brick Theater — a playhouse in Brooklyn, New York — already had a reputation for adapting video games to the stage with last year’s Adventure Quest (a play based on a point-and-click PC game). This summer, they up the ante with Game Play, a summer stock production of several plays that runs from July [...]
The winners for this year’s E3 Game Critics Awards — a group of awards voted on by representatives from over 30 of gaming’s most esteemed publications — has been announced, with Rage garnering the most prizes with three wins. The Nintendo 3DS captured the ‘Best of Show’ award.
UPDATE: The winners have been picked, and have [...]
With over 300 downloadable games in Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade, many games aren’t getting the promotion they deserve. The dashboard architects are hoping to fix that by redesigning the service in an effort they call ‘Destination Arcade.’
Destination Arcade, which will be included in the July 14 Xbox 360 update, includes a drastically different design from [...]
Only NASA could make a game called Moonbase Alpha that actually is what it sounds like. The new edutainment title puts players in the role of astronauts on the moon in the very near future, where stuff apparently breaks regularly.
In either singleplayer or multiplayer mode, participants have to fix critical systems and restart oxygen [...]
For many Americans, today marks the first day back from a three- or four-day Fourth of July weekend — but for many video games, the holiday continues. Some sales are still in effect, the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence DLC Pack migrates to PC and PlayStation 3, and a few in-game revels are [...]
SCE is hard at work on “future platform related activities”, and Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said that first-party game makes will play an important role in the development of new PlayStation consoles.
“When Ken Kutaragi moved on and Kaz Harai became the president of SCE, the first thing Kaz said was, ‘get World Wide [...]
Highlights from our community-written blogs, including the App Store’s lack of quality control, ‘hardcore’ Peggle and the results of bedroom coding.
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64 per cent of consumers prefer buying games on physical discs over digital copies, according to a survey of over 1,000 people by research firm Ipsos MediaCT.
63 per cent said they preferred physical newspapers to digital ones, but the numbers were lower for music and film, with 55 per cent and 49 per cent of [...]
Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada believes game companies’ globalisation efforts have been a failure to date.
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The first part of NASA’s space MMOG, Astronaut: Moon, Mars And Beyond will be launched today on Steam for free.
Moonbase Alpha has been created by Virtual Heroes, the team responsible for America’s Army, and sets out to provide a “persistent, synthetic environment supporting education as a laboratory, a massive visualization tool and collaborative workspace [...]
