Tag archive: online gaming

After a decade of lackluster online support, Nintendo may finally be wising up. During an investor's briefing today, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced that its upcoming console, the Wii U, will have two new features: NFC built into the controller and an Xbox Live-like online service called Nintendo Network. Downloadable content, including fullly downloadable retail games is also a possibility. Details below. Wii U to have a solid… Read More

Based off a study of over 2,000 adults paid for by GameHouse and conducted by Harris Interactive, females that play online games have a healthier social life and more frequent sexual activity than female gamers that don't play online. Specifically, 42 percent of female online gamers socialize in-person with at least 1 person a day while only 31 percent of female non-online gamers do the same. Eighty-six percent of female online gamers are… Read More

Down about 600,000 players in about seven months during the last report, Blizzard reported another loss in the second quarter. Subtracting another 300,000 players from  the player base, the subscriber base for the World of Warcraft massive multiplayer online game has dropped by nearly one million users in about nine months. This decline may have been slowed by the recent move to convert the game to a free-to-play model. Players can play for an… Read More

Gaming can get quite time and resource consuming, but two gamers have reached a new low in pursuit of virtual gratification. A southern Chinese newspaper is reporting that a young Chinese couple has been found guilty of selling their three children off to support a gaming habit. It sounds like a ludicrous scenario but according to Sanxiang City News, the couple from Dongguan, China first met in 2007 in an Internet cafe; both were under 21 years… Read More

Just a few years ago a stereotypical view of a “gamer” was a kid sitting on a bean bag chair with his hat on backwards pushing a joystick while blowing a huge Bazooka gum bubble. That kid is now 40 years-old, his kid is playing with a Wii and his lips are attached to a beer can. People that grew up playing Pac Man and Sonic the Hedgehog now fit into one of three categories, hard core gamers, casual social game players or they… Read More

Magic: The Gathering – Tactics puts players worldwide in the role of a Planeswalker, a powerful mage commanding devastating spells and iconic creatures from all five colors of Magic. It's now available for download on the PC at www.MagicTheGatheringTactics.com. “Working to expand the boundaries of the world's best-known trading card game – a game I've played and loved for years – has been our goal from the very… Read More

That didn’t take long. The WikiLeaks Cablegate scandal has now became an online game simpler than Frogger. The entire premise involves Julian Assange sneaking a USB drive into President Obama’s laptop before he notices. It shows you how many documents you’re able to upload each time, and once you get to 300,000, you win. While the game’s graphics and content are nothing to brag about, its popularity is. In the few, short days it’s been… Read More

Simply holding Gran Turismo 5 in my hands, I felt a sense of surprise. It was almost like a dream. After so, so, so, many delays, the game had actually been released. But could it live up to the hype? It is difficult to judge a title that has so much anticipation. Not everyone is in love with the Gran Turismo series and its incredibly complex options, but to those that are, it is a passionate love that demands perfection. So can GT5—or any… Read More

It is no secret that the world of video games has taken a massive revenue hit over the last few years. The software numbers are down, and while some of that can be attributed to the economy, and some to the cyclic nature of the industry, many developers and publishers are scrambling to look at ways to change how they create games in order to remain ahead of the curve and offer customers what they want. And of course, to be profitable. As the… Read More

Earlier this year, analysts suggested that declining video game sales could be boosted by charging for online gaming. Since then, Call of Duty fans have been anxious to hear whether or not Activision would indeed charge them for multiplayer use online. Executive Bobby Kotick even said in July that if he could change his company in any way, it would be to turn Call of Duty into “an online subscription service tomorrow.” But rest assured, Kotick… Read More

Panasonic has introduced a device that could be the next big thing in portable gaming! It probably won’t be, but it could be. Panasonic is back once again in the gaming market, this time with a handheld unit called the Jungle. While this might sound like a rival to Nintendo and Sony, and maybe even to the iPhone and iTouch, it does have a few things that will make it stand out. It may still fail spectacularly, but it will stand out. Developed… Read More

While Halo: Reach might have the hype, and Call of Duty: Black Ops might get the sales numbers, few games – or in this case expansions – are as eagerly awaited as the newest World of Warcraft expansion pack, “Cataclysm.” And if the Amazon e-mail that recently went out to customers that have preordered the game is accurate, January will be a big month for WoW fans. Blizzard has yet to announce an official release date,… Read More

Google recently went on a spending spree, scooping up social media companies galore, while being coy about its plans. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Zeitgeist conference attendees in Arizona to look out for new social networking products before the end of the year. While these are expected to be launched as part of Google Me, details are skimpy at this time. Instead of an all-out Facebook rival, Google plans… Read More

When people think of the Call of Duty franchise, the first thought tends to be of the online multiplayer. The campaigns have generally been solid, but the real heart and soul of the games is the online aspect. It is a lesson that Activision knows, and one that Treyarch, intends to show that they understand as well. One way that Treyarch intends to prove that Black Ops should be your go-to online first-person-shooter game is by introducing new… Read More

Soon, millions of people around the world will be kissing their free time goodbye (along with girlfriends/boyfriends) when Square Enix releases the next Final Fantasy MMO next month for PCs. Like all Final Fantasy games (not counting the spin-offs), Final Fantasy XIV is not a direct sequel to any previous entry in the series, but it will be the spiritual successor to Final Fantasy XI as the second MMORPG under the Final Fantasy banner. FFXIV… Read More