Tag Archives: Video Games
Mad gaming policies: Does your candidate have them?
While recently on the campaign trail in Denver with the UW Election Eye team, we talked with John and Elizabeth Santorum. As you can see in the video below, Rick Santorum has been working quite hard on the campaign trail, … Continue reading
Taming the Digital Media Beast with Positive Parental Attention!
The television world has come a long way since the Saturday morning cartoon lineup I used to watch as a kid was the high-water mark of children’s entertainment. Now, my five children are growing up in a 24/7 connected universe … Continue reading
Storytelling, cinematic video games and 3D
“Video games will be the fastest-growing and most exciting form of mass media over the coming decade” declares the headline to The Economist’s recent video games special report “All the world’s a game.” According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a consulting firm, … Continue reading
Wolfire Games’ Pay-What-You-Want Experiment Pays Off
Last month, Wolfire Games, an independent game developer and distributor, unleashed a pay-what-you-want campaign for a bundle of indie games that seemed to take a play from the famous Radiohead pay-what-you-want experiment. The Humble Indie Bundle, as it was called, … Continue reading
The Next Nintendo? The Rise of Smart Phone Gaming
For years, Nintendo has ruled the mobile gaming world, first with the Game Boy, then with the DS Lite. After an amazing run, though, the torch is being passed. Not to another gaming company, but to smart phone makers Google … Continue reading
Social Networks and Video Games
For years, video games were strangely absent from the social media tidal wave. Aside from casual games built into social networking websites, games didn’t support social media. The recently released (Oct. 13) “Uncharted 2: Among Thieves” for the PlayStation 3, … Continue reading
The (Virtual) British Invasion: The Beatles in Your Living Room
On Sept. 9, the Beatles finally entered the world of digital music. This was an inevitable move, but what’s truly interesting is how they chose to do it. Well-known Beatles fan Steve Jobs has yet to secure the world-famous music … Continue reading
Ace Team Video Games Fights Piracy Using The P2P Model
Ace Team, a video game company in Chile in the effort to fight piracy is using the P2P model: “All the games are there to be pirated. We were not going to be the exception. Once we saw the game … Continue reading
