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Banned Resistance Player Sues Sony for 'Pain and Suffering'

Online games offer a lot of interesting moments. Besides the joy of winning a game based on your own efforts or on the efforts of your team, you also get to experience some unique moments thanks to the other players and their own reactions to the events unfolding in the game. One such “interesting” playe...

27 July 2009
13:11 GMT

Xbox 360 Reaches 30 Million Units Sold

The console war has been underway for quite some time, with the top three devices, the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, duking it out for supremacy and for the number one spot in sales. But while the NPD charts show that the Wii's reign is undisputed, don't count out its rivals just yet. Microsoft...

1 June 2009
02:41 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Levels Coming Soon to the Internet via Sharing Portal

Media Molecule is one of the most acclaimed studios currently active on the market, because it managed to deliver a game that offered a great experience that, in the minds of other developers, couldn't be done. That game is LittleBigPlanet, a title that has made a lot of PlayStation 3 users quite happy. With th...

26 May 2009
02:57 GMT

Spb Online the Ultimate Online Services for Mobiles

One of the best Online service solutions, Spb Online, developed by the well-known Spb Software company, is an all-in-one tool that provides users with easy access to news, programs, games, weather, themes and ringtones. Also, the application offers users a mobile TV solution, as well as an integrated online radio. Wi...

19 May 2009
12:01 GMT

The PC Will Be the World's Most Important Platform, Says EA

The PC platform has, for a long time, been doomed and sentenced to a slow and painful death by a lot of analysts, who predicted that consoles would become the most important platforms in the world for video games.  But this is not true, at least according to big video game corporation Electronic Arts, which has...

14 May 2009
02:46 GMT

The PC Dominates Online Gaming

Most of the titles recently released on gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony have highly emphasized the multiplayer element, with cooperative play for two or four players being offered alongside classic competitive multiplayer. So, it might come as a surprise that the PC is...

11 March 2009
16:11 GMT

NASA Reveals Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond Online Game

The MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market is a pretty big one, which, despite the fact that World of Warcraft dominates it with a massive 11,5 million monthly subscribers, always sees new titles appear almost every month. Space-themed MMOs are quite popular these days, with titles such as EV...

23 February 2009
15:11 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Punishes Cheaters

Games can be quite difficult sometimes, as a lot of developers believe that their target audience is already one filled with experienced players that already have reflexes and know how to get past certain obstacles. But because some gamers lack the necessary skill or, far worse, don't want to actually live the t...

23 February 2009
03:03 GMT

World of Warcraft Designer to Tackle New Blizzard Online Title

Blizzard is one of the biggest game developers out there, being responsible for a lot of iconic franchises like StarCraft, Diablo or the recent runaway success that is World of Warcraft. With over 11,5 million paying subscribers every month, you can definitely be sure that the financial resources of the company can f...

20 February 2009
02:43 GMT

IBM Thinks World of Warcraft Players Make Good Employees

Online games are starting to become one of the most popular types of entertainment out there. We all play or have played various online titles like MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) in order to relax and enjoy ourselves, but it seems that some people become very addicted to them and start negl...

16 January 2009
13:01 GMT

China's Online Games Industry Will Grow to 2.67 Billion Dollars

The big MMOs of our time, like World of Warcraft from Blizzard or Warhammer Online from Mythic, need to re-orient themselves to attract as much of the Chinese market as possible, otherwise they run the risk of becoming irrelevant.A recent study from Interfax China, a business news organization and research group, say...

7 January 2009
04:15 GMT

Battlefield Heroes Developer Talks About Game Modes

We have recently seen quite a big increase in online games, which focus on co-operative play and show that a singleplayer mode isn't something mandatory in today's world. Titles like Valve's Team Fortress 2 are extremely popular and will certainly stay that way for quite some time.But Electronic Arts w...

19 December 2008
13:01 GMT

Americans' Interest in Internet Is Decreasing

Americans don't spend so much time online anymore. As the summer holidays began for students, and working people are now thinking more and more about where to spend their vacations, the time allocated to navigating the web has decreased by 4% from May to June. 1% less users killed time in front of a computer con...

22 July 2008
03:34 GMT

Online Casual Gamers Would Play More Mobile Games

I-play, the mobile entertainment company, revealed the results of a recently conducted survey which shows that 38% of casual online games customers also play games on their mobile phones and 45% of them would play their preferred online games on mobiles, if they were available. 22% of the respondents said "yes" and...

30 October 2007
10:03 GMT


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