Electronic Arts Acquires Social Gaming Company Playfish For $400m

Electronic Arts (EA) has acquired the rights to Playfish, a social gaming company in a deal that could be worth up to $400 million. This should prove to be lucrative for EA as Playfish has already gained great...

Gamers Can Submit their Ideas for FIFA 11

After a record-breaking launch for FIFA 10, now EA Sports is looking for user-submitted ideas and suggestion for its next version of football game, FIFA 11. FIFPlay which is a feedback community for FIFA game,...

Online gaming leaving UK shores

Ladbrokes have added their name to the list of companies taking their online gambling operations overseas and thus depriving the UK treasury of millions of pounds in taxes.A terse statement from their chairman...

Vancouver Digital Week hosts 3rd Annual PopVox Awards

Vancouver is preparing itself for another invigorating week of Business to Business speed dating, an influx of game developers, Obama’s social media guru, and the gathering of digital media industry’s finest at this year’s Vancouver Digital Week 2009.  Taking place...

World of Warcraft: The 'crack cocaine' of gaming

We all have addictions, small or large. They toy with us. They ruffle our hair, whisper in our ear, slip their hands down our shirts, and tickle us just the way we like it. Among gamers, a key addiction, according to Sweden's Youth Care Foundation, is playing World of...

Psychologists: Gaming is not an official addiction

Video games and addiction seem to be the buzzwords of late 2008 and early 2009 ; with an abundance of news stories plastered online and offline.  The real question is, should excessive gaming be legally considered an addiction like gambling and alcoholism? To start, the...

Halo Wars, Killzone 2 Demos Available Today

Two highly-anticipated console games are entering public demo today: Xbox 360's Halo Wars and PS3's Killzone 2.  Halo Wars is available for demo today via Xbox Live. The game takes the world created for...

Gamers Arrested By SWAT Team After Playing Playstation Too Loudly

Two gamers in Denmark had a SWAT team knock down their door and arrest them after they were playing a video game too loudly. The pair were playing Rainbow Six on their PlayStation 3 when neighbors called the...

GAMING HISTORY!

AL-KHUBAR, SAUDI ARABIA - EVERYBODY IS WONDERING  HOW COULD GAMING OR GAMES BECOME IN THE NEAR FUTURE FROM 2010 - 2015 OR THE FAR FUTURE TO 2020, BUT WHAT EVERY BODY WAS MISSING THAT WHEN DID GAMING STARTED...

Big donations to B.C. Liberals linked to bingo industry

Under the "O" -- obfuscation."Private bingo hall and community gaming centre interests appear to have contributed $269,711 to the provincial Liberals between 2002 and 2007. But almost none of those donations were...

Video games jump to THOUGHT speed

With physicists exceeding the speed of light and making a JUMP into THOUGHT, the world's first 4D video game has hit the streets.Actually, it is really 5 games in one.(1) "Ueber Alles - The Struggle of Kurt...

Dutch gaming industry leaps to the next level with first ever Dutch Game Award

The Netherlands is marking it's first steps in the next level of the gaming industry with the nations first ever Game Award tomorrow. After a decade of hard work the Netherlands have risen as a serious player in...

Body found believed to be that of missing Barrie boy Brandon Crisp

Update November 14, 2008:Friends and family of Brandon Crisp said their final goodbye this morning during a funeral service at St. Mary's Church in his hometown of Barrie. Grade 10 students wore yellow scarves to...

'Fallout 3' Gets Midnight Release

Last night at the stroke of midnight, Best Buy stores across the U.S. were open for business to launch the release of Bethesda's hotly anticipated Fallout 3 game.By early accounts, Fallout 3 is being hailed as...

Nintendo's New DSi: Bells and Whistles

Kids (by which I mean their parents) will be clamoring for the newest verson of the DS, dubbed the DSi. side from Mario, Zelda and sudoku madness, the dual-screen handheld is getting more online capability,...

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