Frag, the documentary chronicling professional gaming from the arcade days through the cyber-athletes of tomorrow, is out now.
Directed by Mike Pasley, the 88-minute film details the life of the modern professional gamer from training to challenges in going pro. The film synopsis lists interviews with Fatal1ty, Lost-Cauze, and Starslay3r, and Angel Munoz. Interestingly, the synopsis [...]
PlayStation 3 game developers may soon be able to make their products a lot more personal, as they now have access to Facebook’s API, giving players the choice to allow their games to incorporate information from the world’s biggest social network.
So far, Facebook’s interaction with home consoles has been limited to system-friendly versions of the [...]
Snoopy Flying Ace developer Smart Bomb Interactive is working on a browser-based flight-combat game featuring dogfights with customizable airplanes.
Published by UTV True Games, Sky Legends features biplane and triplanes. According to spokesperson Mika Kelly, Sky Legends is inspired by Smart Bomb’s surprisingly successful Snoopy Flying Ace (though Snoopy isn’t in the game) and “a combination [...]
Sony Online Entertainment’s Free Realms gets a little bit freer with a Mac port coming out “later this fall.”
The new edition of Free Realms comes as part of a partnership between SOE and TransGaming, Inc., a multi-platform developer specializing in Mac and Linux/CE platform ports. The Mac version allows synchronous play between Mac [...]
PopCap Games releases an update today for the iPhone and iPod touch versions of Peggle, with an added bonus.
Five levels from Peggle Nights are now in the popular casual puzzle game for Apple iOS devices, along with the ability to unlock the entire Peggle Nights game via an in-app purchase.
The update also adds [...]
The Myelin Repair Foundation (MRF) is taking cues from online gaming for a collaborative medical emergency response experiment using real-time idea sourcing. The Northern California–based non-profit medical research foundation plans two game-like events this fall, sponsored by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio, and produced in partnership with the Institute for [...]
Yesterday’s game news seemed like it was coming from the nation’s capital instead of Japan or LA, as EA’s decision to remove the Taliban from Medal of Honor had more repercussions and the Obamas made gaming news. These decidedly non-Washington stories were overlooked, but this morning’s stale bread will hopefully change that.
10/5–Boom-Shaka-Laka, Mr. President.
Exclusive: First [...]
GameStop stores on base at Army & Air Force Exchange Service installations across the world will no longer advertise and will not stock copies of the upcoming first-person shooter Medal of Honor, which includes a multiplayer mode that allows players to take on U.S. soldiers as members of the Taliban.
When asked if the U.S. [...]
Diversity is the theme of the 2010 IndieCade, as the 32 finalists highlight games from a variety of genres and from developers in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
UPDATE: Just a reminder that IndieCade 2010 is this weekend, folks. The awards show goes down 8 PM PST this Friday at Sony Pictures Plaza — we’ll keep [...]
Just like in the original series, the EA NBA Jam reboot is flush with famous faces known outside of the National Basketball Association. With Barack Obama and a few other famous politicians confirmed for the game, we asked our Twitter followers for even more suggestions.
As we are wont to do, we start with the question [...]
