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Date: Thu, 3. February 2011 01:21:27

The Kinect launch is over, and by all accounts the new motion control device for the Xbox 360 has been a success. But what's next for Kinect? Sure, it can do party games, sports mini-games and, yes, dance games. But what other kind of games can Kinect do?

Date: Tue, 24. November 2009 13:27:00

PC World - Video games don't respect humanitarian laws, according to a study of virtual 'war crimes' in contemporary shooters like Modern Warfare 2 and Army of Two, and whose results, say researchers, are 'as deflating as reality'. Swiss human rights groups Pro Juventute and TRIAL (track impunity always) chose to analyze video games and not literature or film, which they view as 'passive' mediums, compared with 'shooter games, [in which] the player has an active role in performing the actions'. What's more, says the report, games are used as military training tools and set during present-day conflicts, 'thus illustrating the realism these games have now achieved'.

Date: Mon, 1. June 2009 15:15:20

The best online casino games are the games that give the highest chances of winnings. These games normally have the lowest house edge or provide players with the biggest advantage of winning. Here are the top 7 best bets at online casinos where you have t

Date: Fri, 29. May 2009 03:04:43

38 Studios, the video game company founded by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, yesterday announced the purchase of Big Huge Games from publisher THQ Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Big Huge Games, which is based in Timonium, Md., develops role-playing games for game consoles and Windows-based personal computers. The Big Huge Games team will be ...

Date: Mon, 12. May 2008 06:35:46

On Monday, Nintendo launches WiiWare, a service that allows gamers to download games straight to their Wiis. Are the growing number of games-on-demand services and the sometimes unusual bite-sized games they offer the wave of the future? Indie developers ? and big console makers ? are betting on it.

Date: Thu, 13. November 2008 18:06:22

When the Nintendo Wii was first launched, the variety of games included in the included Wii Sports showed people that with the right type of games, the innovative Wii remote system could be used to really work up a sweat. Boxing and tennis were just two of the included games that gamers used to actually exercise and lose some weight.

Date: Sat, 29. August 2009 13:02:00

PC World - All around the world, the focus of games has been moving from video games to arcade games and further towards online games. Currently, the online game market is growing steadily with an increasing number of users due to higher provision rates of broadband, enhanced console network functions, diversification of online game genres and an expansion of casual MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game).

Date: Sat, 9. August 2008 03:18:55

(AHN) - An International Olympic Committee (IOC) rule banning the top 12 Games sponsors from actively supporting cities that bid for summer or winter Olympic Games is preventing McDonald's from backing Chicago's 2016 bid for the Summer Games. - Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:23:42 GMT

Date: Fri, 30. January 2009 11:10:45

The finalists for the Independent Games Festival's Mobile Games Competition offer a snapshot of what's happening in the world of on-the-go games. In a word: iPhone. Everyone wants to make games for the slick gadget, and its sibling, the iPod Touch. The problem is: How do you make your game stand out in the crowd?

Date: Wed, 9. June 2010 15:05:19

Telltale Games is going back in time for a new series of video games. The developer is creating episodic titles based on the "Back to the Future" and "Jurassic Park" franchises. The popular Universal Studios film trilogies spawned several games in their heyday in the '80s and '90s but have been absent from the interactive realm. The as-yet-untitled Xbox 360, ...