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Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (3DS)

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:11:27 -0800
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games isn't quite world-class, but it’s a fun-filled romp through sometimes overly simplistic versions of Olympic events.
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Big Fish Games Rapidly Expanding Cloud Gaming Research at Cork Operation, Supported by IDA Ireland

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:30:00 -0800
Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD today announced that Big Fish Games, the category leader in premium casual games with more than 2500 unique titles and 1.5 billion downloads, is continuing to enhance and expand its cloud gaming research and development initiative at its Cork, Ireland operation.
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2K Games Announces The Darkness™ II Now Available

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0800
2K Games announced today that The Darkness™ II, the sequel to the hit 2007 title, The Darkness™, is now available in North America for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC*.
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MIT's Spacewar! computer game celebrates 50th anniversary

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:57 -0800
MIT has recreated "Spacewar!" - one of the world's first computer games - to celebrate the 50th anniversary of...
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'Hunger Games' Director Gary Ross On Tracker Jackers Scene: 'Not For The Faint Of Heart'

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:31:41 -0800
If you've read Suzanne Collins' excellent "Hunger Games" trilogy, you know that blood-lusting teens aren't the only foes District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark must face in the titular Games. In this dystopian reality, scientists have busied themselves slicing and dicing genomes to create murderous mutants worthy of your worst nightmares. And they've [...]
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World Toys and Games Market to Reach US$100 Billion by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:02:40 -0800
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global outlook on the Toys and Games Industry. The global toys and games industry is driven by the growing popularity of console and computer games, in addition to video games. A peculiar trend driving the market is the growing disenchantment of children towards toys and games at an early age. The span of attention and the desirability to play with ...
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Lawmaker seeks tax on 'violent' video games

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:57:09 -0800
A bill proposed by an Oklahoma state legislator would place a 1 percent tax on games that are deemed "violent" by adding an additional 1 percent on top of the existing state sales tax.
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Let the Games begin

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:07:24 -0800
NORTH ATTLEBORO - The veterans office is hoping the community will help make an Army veteran's dream of competing in the National Veterans Wheelchair Games this summer a reality.
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Core Dump: Digital Board Games for iOS

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:07:44 -0800
Lately I’ve been trying to play a little less Tiny Tower on my iPad and trying to actually interact with other people when I’m using it. (When I’m not getting sucked into Book of Heroes, that is.) One of my favorite ways to do that, of course, is board games. When I can’t get a [...]
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Boy creates computer games, website to help kids with cancer

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:16:36 -0800
One young boy believes an act of kindness can go a long way for kids who are battling cancer. For Conner Haines, 11, of Honey Brook Twp., Chester Co., a difficult time in his family's past sparked an idea that could help others. "My sister had cancer when she was two-and-a-half," said Conner. "Cancer is close to our family's heart," said Conner's mother, Dawn Haines, who added that her son's ...
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