Nothing makes a typical gaming fanboy’s eyes glaze over than the magic words ‘Grand Theft Auto.’ This phrase is a talisman for many gaming fans-at least as far as the gaming blogosphere is concerned. You only need to put Grand Theft Auto on your blog title and some clown somewhere on the other side of [...]
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Gabe Newell Sees PCs Giving Consoles Competition-in the living room
As we have mentioned before, there seems to be a divide between gaming cultures. There are two camps. Two distinct tribes, if you will. Those who game on a PC and those who play games using consoles. No, I am not setting up a marketing distinction like that of those classic Apple vs PC ads [...]
FIFA Soccer 13 Draws Massive Demo Crowd
Seeing the huge popularity of video games, almost the entire world is awaiting the new release of the latest FIFA soccer game. The game has been made in Canada and a recent demo release attracted more than 1.99 million people. Individuals in more than 70 countries around the world downloaded the new demo to get [...]
Zynga sued by EA over SimCity Social “Similarities”
When it rains it pours. Indeed, when you’re having a tough time, expect more bad news. This can’t be any truer for the previous social media darling, Zynga. Zynga put social gaming on the map by dominating Facebook’s game apps. Who hasn’t heard of Farmville? Apparently, the string of bad news hitting Zynga is continuing [...]
South Korea Project brings SimCity to Life
One of the greatest attractions of SimCity is playing the game with a blank slate. You create your world with full control as to how your world will look, how it will operate, and how it will function in the future. Besides the attraction of unbridled power, it also poses the other main attraction offered [...]
World of Warcraft Gets Ready for Fourth Expansion on September 25th
Ready or not, World of Warcraft which is the leading MMORPG title on the market is going to release its fourth expansion officially on September 25th. It has ben in beta for some time now, but we are going to see if World of Warcraft can maintain the same level of magic and appeal with [...]
Might Elder Scrolls Online Bring MMORPGs to Consoles?
As we have mentioned earlier, there has been much transition in the MMORPG gaming space. The big divide among the titles and the big challenge facing growth in that segment of the video game industry is the rise of free to play MMORPG games. It takes money to come up with highly engaging and high-quality [...]
Grand Theft Auto 5 Won’t Be Showing Up at Gamescom 2012
You really have to hand it to Rockstar Games. They did not show up at E3, but who do most game industry journalists speculate about and wonder about? You guess it–Rockstar Games and its flagship product Grand Theft Auto 5. A few weeks later, there were some rumors floating around that Gamescom 2012 will feature [...]
Assassins Creed 3 Comic-Con Panel Summary
San Diego’s Comic-Con has become truly a rite of passage for any comic book-based or super hero-based movie or video game. Comic-Con has become a key part of these types of entertainment’s marketing process. You have to make a big splash at Comic-Con to generate a large enough viral marketing infrastructures for your product or [...]
Will the Elder Scrolls Online Bring About an MMORPG Renaissance?
It is no secret that the MMO genre of the video game industry needs a shot in the arm. You only need to look at the previously declining number of World of Warcraft users to see that the MMORPG market is in transition mode. We know that there are changes on the ground, but we [...]