The Real Reason Video Game Consoles Still Have Optical Drives?
2012-06-01T21:46:28Z

With the rise of online gaming and digital downloads, video gamers in the United States and other developed ... move to digital downloads is inevitable. According to the anonymous producer, No one [in the console business] wants to ...

Bogus GTA 5 stories, beta and characters
2012-05-26T23:55:16Z

The amount of bogus Grand Theft Auto 5 stories appearing online is increasing, and while this should educate most gamers to take rumors with a ... Anyone that knows Grand Theft Auto games will also remember there hasn t been a beta for the ...

Life and Death of a Video Game - Reader's Feature
2012-05-25T23:42:09Z

I'm absolutely sure that gamers' estimations ... with regard to online provision and other areas of games support. And in the increasing heavy-handed nature of announcements made to seem like diktats, or enforced by anonymous sudden subterfuge (e.g ...

Gacha Watch: Player Spending Still Steady on Japan Social Games
2012-06-01T16:45:49Z

Even individual employees seem confident as to the future of social games, according to an interview in Zak Zak this week. The bubble will continue, said an anonymous 26-year ... to a recent Neo Marketing online survey. Among those who have spent ...

Gacha Watch: Japan s Social Game Industry Shifts Gears After Government Crackdown
2012-05-22T16:21:53Z

Prior to the official ruling, the Yomiuri spoke to an anonymous ... hooked on online computer games. These big spenders can run through tens of thousands of yen in a month. It s our goal to make more than 10 percent of all gamers spend money ...

Steam Wallet store displays arrive at GameStop [update: It's official]
2012-05-14T15:41:16Z

Images sent to Joystiq by an anonymous tipster reveal an in-store display for ... of brands include 6,614 company-operated stores in 15 countries worldwide and online at www.GameStop.com. The network also includes: www.Kongregate.com, a leading ...

Diablo 3 Auction Houses Help: 8 Things You Should Know
2012-05-21T12:48:20Z

Because gamers are always looking to make their gaming experiences ... Blizzard now plans to present the real-money auction house online approximately one week after the game's U.S. launch. The game arrived on May 15, 2012.

WP-Bloomberg budget
2012-05-30T19:25:40Z

We now include select articles from the online magazine Slate, Foreign Policy magazine and ... universities and even computer gamers as part of an ambitious effort to develop technologies to improve its cyberwarfare capabilities, launch effective attacks ...