As a sad footnote to a year strewn with the corpses of shuttered studios, Free Radical let go most of its 180-plus employees on December 17. Best-known for the TimeSplitters series, the Nottingham, England-based shop had bet heavily on the success of its oft-delayed PlayStation 3 shooter, Haze. Unfortunately, the Ubisoft title was a critical [...]
MANILA, Philippines – A recent study shows that playing video games can induce creativity while another says that gamers are actually more sociable, as opposed to the usual notion that they just spend the whole day at home on their couches slacking and snacking on junk food.
Gamers are evolving and starting to make their presence [...]
When my 11-year-old twins, Katie and Megan, asked to check out something called “Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games,” I realized that my years of playing Space Invaders no longer counted as expertise.
At these increasingly popular interactive Web sites, such as Club Penguin (below), thousands of kids meet to play games or do battle and send [...]
