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Magic: The Gathering-based games coming to PC, Mac, Xbox Live
If a hit computer game can turn into a hit collectible card game, then why can't a hit CCG become a hit computer game? That seems to be the thinking behind today's announcement that Wizards of the Coast has licensed video game use of ...

Is ‘Tetris’ The Beef Jerky Of Mobile Games? (GDC 2008)
“First off, ‘Tetris’ is the best game ever. Not the best mobile game, but the best game ever,” said speaker Rick Marazzani. He’s worked in casual games for over 12 years at places like Broderbund, Maxis/EA/Pogo and Digital Chocolate and ...

Q-Games reveals 'PixelJunk Eden,' hints at future titles
In closing his GDC post-mortem on the PlayStation Network's PixelJunk games, Q-Games president Dylan Cuthbert briefly showed off the next game in the series of downloadable, 2D titles. PixelJunk Eden comes across as being far more ...

GDC — Starts With Two Head-Spinning Ideas About Video Games
As I left the kick-off panel for the Independent Games Summit — a satellite event of GDC running today and tomorrow (when I’ll be speaking), my head was spinning. I had just heard two provocative ideas I’d like to share. ...

Increased Risk Games Revisited
Based on my review of the game by game rushing attempts from 1995-2006, the tipping point where “increased risk games” kicked in and we saw increased injury rates in the games that followed was at about 25 rushing attempts in a game. ...

Gulmarg hosts fifth National Winter Games
Not far from the place thronged by the kings and their consorts, the J&K chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad inaugurated the fifth National Winter Games at the beautiful and snow clad tourist resort of Gulmarg.

M:Metrics: Mobile gamers are playing old games
Millions of users are playing mobile games but according to a recent M:Metrics report, they aren't downloading new games. The report notes that while more than 98 million users are playing mobile games, most are playing games native to ...

Arsenal v. Milan, Let the Games Begin
Use this space to discuss the game, and I will be back to recap the game as soon as I get it off the DVR, I wish someone would start paying me so I can stay home and watch games and Live Blog…who I am kidding I just do it for the chicks ...

GDC08: Tetris, "the Slim Jim of video games"
In what is destined to become the most interesting metaphor used at GDC this year, iQ212 founder Rick Marazzani noted that Tetris is "the Slim Jim of video games." The proclamation came during a lecture entitled "Tetris: Best/Worst ...

Nokia plans to release 3D accelerated N-Gage Games
I reported about the lack of 3D accelerated games in N-Gage games, a real shame, because devices like the N95 are so much more powerful: They can display amazing graphics, calculated by the GPU which unburdens also the CPU a lot. ...