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PS Vita Social Applications And New Games Revealed At Gamescom
PlayStation Vita’s promise of pairing the cutting-edge game experiences PlayStation is famed for with the always connected, social experiences modern consumers are used to, all in a sleek portable device, became clearer at...
Journey into Mystery…
One of the highlights of E3 for me this year was seeing Journey receive such an enthusiastic response from everyone (and it did look particularly stunning on a 50 inch screen in the...
Welcome Back To Online Gaming
We’re back, huzzah! It’s been a turbulent time over the past few weeks. Hair has been lost, nails have been bitten and our routers have had a well deserved chance to cool off....
White Knight Chronicles II Interview
As the release of White Knight Chronicles II , exclusively on PS3 , draws closer, we got in touch with the game’s director Yoshiaki Kusuda to talk about the story behind WKC II...
Details Of The Welcome Back Programme For SCEE Users
Now that certain PSN services have been restored and you’re once again enjoying online gaming, it seems a good time to confirm what is being offered as part of the Welcome Back programme....
PlayStation Network and Qriocity Services FAQ #2
Yesterday, we addressed a number of your questions< relating to the malicious intrusion into our network. You can find that FAQ here . As we get closer to restoration of service, here are...
Zynga wants to be the Amazon of social games, says CEO Mark Pincus
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games The zealous chief of the social gaming giant made the ambitious claims at the Zynga Seattle opening ceremony last night. In the midst of the recruiting rush...
Sony Online Entertainment closes three studios; social games suffer?
Filed under: Other Games Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has made an upsetting move today, closing its Denver, Seattle and Tuscon studios while laying off a total of 205 employees, Joystiq reports. While SOE...
World of Warcraft-maker Blizzard: FarmVille is ‘not evil’ [Interview]
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Blizzard, the company responsible for what some might call the most popular social games of all time (long before FarmVille was a twinkle in Mark Pincus' eye), is celebrating 20 years in existence....
Runes of Magic is Facebook-bound, decrypts the future of MMOs
Filed under: Other Games Frogster 's premiere free-to-play MMO, Runes of Magic , is headed to Facebook in the second quarter of 2011.
Addicted to FarmVille? That’s against the law in China, for some
Filed under: Farmville , Cafe World , Other Games We've all heard the shocking stories of people's addiction to FarmVille and other online games . China's government is attempting to quell this type...
EA brings Pogo to Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch for free
Filed under: Other Games Facebook is so 2010. The next big thing will be getting these addictive little gems onto mobile phones, if EA 's recent move is any indication. The gaming giant...
On the Scene at GDC Online!
The Games.com crew has headed down to the Lone Star State this week -- Austin to be exact -- to attend the Game Developers Conference Online , where the who's who of the...
15 Years Of PlayStation Memories
The global PlayStation family is celebrating a very special birthday this September. On 29 September, 1995, the original PlayStation console launched across Europe with games likes Ridge Racer and WipEout. That’s 15 years...
Is the future of social games in your mobile browser?
Munich-based social game developer Itsmy has officially expanded its mobile gaming engine to be available on over 12,000 mobile web devices.
InstantJam taps into Rock Band and Guitar Hero lovers on Facebook
Yesterday, our sister site Joystiq reported that InstantAction has just debuted a "Rock Band-style music game" called InstantJam onto Facebook. We last heard of InstantAction in March , where the company hoped to...
InstantJam taps into Rock Band and Guiter Hero lovers on Facebook
We last heard from InstantAction during PAX East in March , where it hoped to revolutionize online gaming using high quality games with the portability and delivery of embeddable YouTube videos. Its passenger...
Square Enix engaged in "exploration" of social games business
Japanese mega-publisher Square Enix is best known for sprawling, story-filled single-player RPGs like those in the Final Fantasy series. So it's a bit surprising that the company is reportedly looking into the relatively...
Nielsen: Online games now more popular than e-mail
Look out e-mail...