So soon after Rep. Fourkiller’s (unsuccessful) call for a video game surtax in Oklahoma, video games once again find themselves in the legislative spotlight, this time in the U.S. House of Representatives. House Resolution 4204 (or the Violence in Video Game Labeling Act), a joint venture between Reps. Frank Wolf (R-Virginia) and Joe Baca (D-California), […]
Earlier today, Mojang announced a production partnership with the Humble Indie Bundle, the experienced group responsible for organizing dozens of indie games for pay-your-own-price collections. The challenge this time around is for the Minecraft-makers to produce a game within 60 hours (starting at 10am CET, February 17th). All of the work will be livestreamed on […]
While the team at Bungie hasn’t been in the business of producing a Halo game since Reach, the company has still held the reigns to the massive amounts of game stats and player records. Bungie has been gradually passing the information onto 343 Industries, the makers of the upcoming Halo 4, since this past summer, […]
Game streaming service Gaikai has seen its web presence expand exponentially in the last six months, and new deals with Best Buy, Ubisoft, and Youtube are only adding to the growth. The specifics of the partnerships have not been released to the public yet, although it is expected that Best Buy will use Gaikai as […]