Since Microsoft has had a hard time really selling the Xbox 360 in Japan, they are now offering a slight incentive to try and get gamers in Japan to play more.  Microsoft has launched a campaign that will pay 100 points ($1.25) to Xbox Live Gold members and 10 points [...]

EA and Maxis have officially announced that they will be shutting down multiple Facebook social games including The Sims Social, SimCity Social, and Pet Society.  According to EA, the user-base for these games has simply dwindled too much over the past few months leaving them no reason to keep the games active. [...]

Bethesda’s Vice President Peter Hines said that the company plans to make “considerably more noise” as a publisher in 2013.  This comes from Hines’ interview on the OXM podcast, in which he said the following: I think you’ll hear us making considerably more noise this year than we did last [...]

    At the Penny Arcade Expo held in Boston a few short weeks ago, Supergiant Games was showing off a work-in-progress title called Transistor. Supergiant gained notoriety after their hit game Bastion came out in Summer 2011, and won multiple awards in numerous categories such as Best Independent Game and [...]

Zynga will be launching their first real money games in the UK tomorrow.  There will be two games available for anyone in the UK over the age of 18 to play, one is called ZyngaPlusPoker and the other is ZyngaPlusCasino.  Both games allow players to start at the “free” level [...]

It has been one year since Mass Effect 3 went on sale and in order to commemorate that event, EA is offering all of the Mass Effect games at highly discounted prices.  You can pickup Mass Effect for $7, Mass Effect 2 for $10 and Mass Effect 3 for $15 [...]

We all know that EA’s launch of SimCity was a failure for all intents and purposes.  The question is where did things go wrong and what should game developers and publishers learn from EA’s major mistakes? The most obvious point of failure was the SimCity servers, which were completely inadequate when [...]

According to a recent post on the OUYA Facebook page, The highly anticipated android based game console called the OUYA will be delivered to your door if you purchase the product before February 4th.  The system will cost you $99.00 for the console itself and one controller plus an additional $30.00 for each [...]

Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata announced that they will not drop Wii U prices to try and increase sales, but instead will expand their software library. Iwata believes that the lack of software has “not yet fully communicated the value of our product.”  So basically, Nintendo truly “believes” their product is [...]