With fall arriving, leisure activities drift off the deck and into the house. For viewing big games or entertaining family and friends, increasingly the place to be is the basement. Now that this space has risen in status to be called the lower level Cont

Melbourne-based software developer ExitReality has created software that can be quickly downloaded to computers and that converts standard two-dimensional web pages into virtual rooms, The Australian reported. Cont

Let s pretend for a moment that we live in 16 th century France. Because if it we did, then what we would have witnessed last week was this: Steve Jobs, The Earl of Apples, pulling off his white gloves, one finger at a time, and then thwap Cont

Just in case you don’t have enough games in the illustrious Wonder Boy series taking up memory on your Wii, there’s one more on the way. Wii has so many Wonder Boy titles already that I wrote a great big guide to all of them nearly a year ago. At the Cont

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Details emerged Thursday behind the break-in of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s e-mail account, including a first-hand account suggesting it was vulnerable because a hacker was able to impersonate her online to Cont

Video game and advertising serial entrepreneurs today announced the public launch of a new strategy and services firm, Worlds and Games LLC. The company, which has been operating in stealth mode since the Spring, will empower leading entertainment Cont

Analyst: Wii ‘Inhospitable’ For Third-Party Publishers [09.12.08] Despite higher Metacritic ratings and a significantly larger install base, August software chart-topper Madden NFL 09 for Wii sold 87 percent less than the Xbox 360 version and 79 Read More

Toy and hobby retailers weren t playing games with growing their Internet channel in 2007. In 2007 the combined performance of toy and hobby merchants ranked in Internet Retailer s current Top 500 Guide easily outpaced the growth of store-based Read More

The 2009 Tony Awards will be held June 7 at Radio City Music Hall. The 63rd annual awards ceremony, honoring the best of the 2008-2009 Broadway season, will be televised live by CBS. The cutoff date for 2009 award eligibility will be April 30. The Read More

Presently, the majority of kids and teenagers are hooked on playing video games, regardless of their gender. Gaming has become quite a phenomenon, creating an industry which values many, many billions of dollars. Tuesday, a 76-page report on the Read More

If you think the internet is the ultimate window on the world, then you haven’t bargained on the next level. It’s a scenario where computer game meets interactive platform in what its developers call ExitReality – a new type of media that turns every Read More

(PhysOrg.com) — Impatient online computer gamers have sparked a new industry in developing countries by paying fellow gamers real cash in return for financial help in the virtual world. The practice known as gold-farming has been Cont

Bill Cosby’s Beloved and Ground-Breaking Series Airs Weeklong Marathon Beginning Monday, September 22 NEW YORK , Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Comedic genius Bill Cosby’s groundbreaking and memorable comedy series “The Cosby Show” joins TV Land’s line-up Cont

Should you have time today to take a break from the hockey action of NHL 2K9 , a dose of puzzling, adventure, and platforming come with this week’s WiiWare and the Virtual Console update. Check it out: Megaman 2 is definitely one of the best games in Cont

This week brings us the second episode in the Homestar Runner series as well as a classic NES action-platformer! WiiWare Strong Bad Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free (Telltale Games, 1,000 Wii points) Cont

Online gaming site Big Fish Games has received the largest amount of funding in recent gaming history. The Seattle-based company closed an $83.3 million ( 46.5 million) funding round led by its backers Balderton Capital, General Catalyst Partners Cont

Hamburg – One side wants to build something up while the other wants to knock down some monsters. These urges may seem to be polar opposites, but they do in fact have a common denominator: both are the key principles behind PC games hitting the Cont

Roger Federer still had over 80 floors to ascend to the Empire State Building’s famed observation deck, but the US Open champion did not need the elevator to make it there. He could quite easily have floated. The Net Post preferred to let Federer go Cont

Green Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m. N.Y. Giants at St. Louis, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Washington, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Buffalo at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. San Francisco at Seattle, 4:05 p.m. Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 4:05 p.m. Houston at Tennessee Cont

NEW YORK – This past Tuesday, the U.S. publisher of “Harry Potter” premiered a highly ambitious series with a mystery ending for readers and a couple of puzzlers for the industry: How big is the market for a multimedia story – and can a phenomenon be Cont

The Pittsburgh Steelers will try for their 10th straight win over the Cleveland Browns as the two teams meet on Sunday night. The all-time series between the two teams is tied at 55 wins each but Pittsburgh has owned the Browns of late. They have won Cont

CHICAGO – Two games between the Chicago Cubs and Astros that were postponed this weekend in Houston because of Hurricane Ike will now be played in Milwaukee. The Cubs and Astros will play at 7:05 p.m. CDT on Sunday and 1:05 p.m. on Monday at Miller Cont

SAN FRANCISCO , BASKING RIDGE, N.J. , and SEATTLE , Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ — From CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2008 in San Francisco , Verizon Wireless, builder and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, and the Read More

All Platforms PC PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation Network PSP Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox 360 Live Arcade GameCube DS Game Boy Advance Mobile Wii Wii Virtual Console & WiiWare All Games Action Adventure Action First-Person Shooters Tactical Shooters Read More

With Google increasingly willing to explore areas beyond its search engine roots, I’ve started wondering: Is Google as a videogame publisher within the realm of possibility? It’s not as crazy as it might sound. Google (nasdaq: GOOG – news – people Read More

(PhysOrg.com) — In the movie The Game, the character is hounded by villains and left for dead in Mexico in an intense version of an alternative reality game. Minus the Hollywood bravado, games that merge the virtual with the real could be the next Read More

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game development company, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), along with distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq: ERTS Read More

NEW YORK – Computer and video game makers have a new customer on their holiday list this year: people like Jennifer Vandersteen. The 29-year-old student at the University of Texas, San Antonio, began playing “Ms. Pac-Man” at age six. Now, she logs as Read More

Spore has landed, and the long-awaited video game brings with it an evolutionary shift in how players interact with and help create games. The title, in development for more than four years with The Sims creator Will Wright at the helm Cont

BEIJING, Sept. 9 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — In a recent report from tootoo.com, the Company stated that with the summer being driving force of the second quarter and third quarters, China’s Internet gaming industry ( http://www.china-computer-accessories Cont

(Pensacola, Florida) TinBu, a leading provider of interactive revenue-generating online content, is pleased to announce they have launched a new version of their corporate Web-site at http://www.tinbu.com/ . TinBu’s new Web-site highlights their Cont

Disney.com, the No. 1 kids’ entertainment and family community destination on the Web, broke its all-time online video record in July. According to comScore Video Metrix, Disney.com video streams totaled 186.7 million, lifting the site’s online video Cont

Longboarding soul-surfer Steve Addington returns to Malibu for the summer to find his cool hometown vibe corrupted. New sponsorship demands Addington to expand into Virtual Reality Video Games and Reality TV. Unwilling to participate in this new Cont

LOS ANGELES : ESPN, the cable TV powerhouse that calls itself “Worldwide Leader in Sports,” is looking to extend its domain in virtual worlds by merging video game graphics with real-life sports anchors. The network, which is owned by the Walt Disney Cont

EA SPORTS(TM) and ESPN are advancing media convergence and delivering a new enhancement to in-studio sports analysis with the debut of EA SPORTS Virtual Playbook, on ESPN’s award-winning NFL programs. The new television technology, developed jointly Cont

MONDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) — Children love playing video games, and playing active versions of these games may help stop children from becoming obese, University of Hong Kong researchers report. In fact, children playing active video games Cont

Digital video recorders have done away with the notion of prime time for millions of gamers. Now game publishers are offering interactive TV stories that have ushered in virtual prime time entertainment. Microsoft wants Xbox 360 gamers to gather Cont

Internet-connected game consoles will generate $8 billion in revenue for the Big Three companies through online content and services in 2013, according to a report released Thursday by research firm Parks Associates. Clearly, console games aren’t Read More

MIDDLESEX, England, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Online poker provider, PokerTime [ http://www.PokerTime.com ] — a member of the esteemed Fortune Lounge Group [ http://www.FortuneLounge.com ] of online casinos — saw the first winners of their highly Read More

There are two major pursuits that lead people to plant their butts in front of computer screens and pound on keyboards for hours without pay. One group of people loves social media in all forms, shapes, and sizes: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter Read More

On Sept. 9, the U. S. publisher of “Harry Potter” will premiere a highly ambitious series with a mystery ending for readers and a couple of puzzlers for the industry: How big is the market for a multimedia story– and can a phenomenon be conceived Read More

South Koreans just can t seem to resist the sheer entertainment value that their online fantasy and combat games deliver. According to statistics recently released by Korea Game Industry Agency, Korea accounted for just over a third of global Read More

Many moons ago, we covered an event in which industry analyst Sean Dromgoole lamented the lack of Gaming Stars – developers who achieve a status equal to their virtual characters. I’d argue that there are a few around the world whose legends have More Here

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Multiverse, a leading provider of virtual world development technology, today announced the launch of Multiverse Places, a unique virtual experience that combines the easy connectivity of social networks More Here

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Multiverse, a leading provider of virtual world development technology for Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), educational and social worlds, and business collaboration environments, today More Here

All Platforms PC PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation Network PSP Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox 360 Live Arcade GameCube DS Game Boy Advance Mobile Wii Wii Virtual Console & WiiWare All Games Action Action Adventure First-Person Shooters Tactical Shooters More Here

Before you give up on the young gamers in your house, note this: If you can get your kid to stand , move and play for at least 35 minutes , he might avoid weight gain. A new study measured energy expended by 18 children ages six to 12 under four More Here

Places, a new initiative from the Multiverse Network, will offer users the ability to connect through Manhattan’s Times Square. Earlier this year, the company first demonstrated the Times Square environment, at the time to showcase its graphics More Here

All Platforms PC PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation Network PSP Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox 360 Live Arcade GameCube DS Game Boy Advance Mobile Wii Wii Virtual Console & WiiWare —– 3DO Acorn Archimedes Adventurevision Amiga Amiga CD32 Amstrad CPC More Here

Places, a new initiative from the Multiverse Network, will offer users the ability to connect through Manhattan’s Times Square. Earlier this year, the company first demonstrated the Times Square environment, at the time to showcase its graphics More Here

The power of ultrasonic waves has been harnessed to produce “virtual” objects in mid-air. The field of haptics – integrating computing and the sense of touch – has been around for some time but has required gloves or mechanical devices to impart a More Here

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that Epic Games Inc. has implemented the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Virtual Switching System (VSS) 1440 to increase the productivity of its development team in the creation of cutting-edge games and cross-platform game More Here

Video games are no longer just for kids. Starting in October, the Downers Grove Park District is offering a Wii bowling league as part of the Active Adult program for seniors. Over the past few months, the district has set up demonstrations of the More Here