Microsoft is using $1.5 million to start The Games for Learning Institute in a joint venture with New York University and other colleges to see whether videogames could enhance education. This won’t necessarily look at games designed for… Read More »

Bailout on Fallout

I don’t own a PS3. Despite LittleBigPlanet, Metal Gear Solid 4, and Killzone 2, I don’t want a PS3. In fact, you could go so far as to say that I actually tend to avoid the PS3 side of the… Read More »

  At least Ubisoft seems to think so. An article from GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that Ubisoft is already adding staff to work on future technology and development for new consoles in 2012. Mind you this comes with no announcements from… Read More »

    Man, I loves me some Resident Evil. Just think, all of the above and then some can be yours on March 13. While Japanese gamers have had their mits on the RE5 demo for some time now, we… Read More »

When I saw the $90 RE5 Collector’s Edition price point, I was a little concerned. The only other limited edition at that price I could think of was Madden ’09, and that came with three games. I knew we weren’t… Read More »

    Like many of us, I wondered what was going to happen to the Mass Effect trilogy once EA acquired BioWare in late 2007. Well que up "Another One Bites the Dust," because it appears that a "reliable source"… Read More »

GDC Europe going to Games Con 2009

Think Services announced today that the company, in conjunction with gamescom, will be bringing the Game Developers Conference (GDC) Europe to Games Convention 2009 in Cologne, Germany. Frank Sliwka, who recently joined Think Services through the company’s acquisition of Global… Read More »

Resident Evil demo coming to Xbox Live this week

Be excited, but cautiously so. The latest issue of Japan’s top gaming mag, Famitsu, has revealed that a demo of Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 will be hitting the Xbox Live Marketplace on December 5th. That’s Friday. Two areas (likely the… Read More »

Ubisoft announced today that the highly stylized Prince of Persia for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 has gone gold, and will be shipping to North American retailers on December 2nd, 2008. Pre-ordering the game will entitle gamers to… Read More »

World of Goo has 90% piracy rate

While we’re on the subject of piracy (and using PotC-inspired images), a sad fact has come out today: 90% of the people playing the wonderful World of Goo have pirated it. It’s easy to laugh at piracy when people pirate… Read More »