Getting too much work done? If so, fire up your Web browser and head over to chrome.angrybirds.com. This is where you can play Chrome Angry Birds, the browser-based version of Angry Birds. It's just as addictive and as fun as the mobile version. And that's why your productivity will end here.
Zynga invited the media to its new headquarters in San Francisco this week to show off its latest games. It's at the corner of 8th and Townsend in a former warehouse district that's now also home to bars, nightclubs and plenty of startups. Zynga has made the interior look more like an art space than a company headquarters.
PSN has been back up and running for some time now, but some of you still might not have redeemed your Welcome Back pack. Better hurry -- it closes soon.
Almost five years after the Nintendo Wii launched, broke sales records, and revolutionized gaming with the introduction of motion-sensitive controllers, the console is slated to get a successor by E3 in June 2011.
With the cost of content rising and wild success of shooter CoD:Black Ops, Activision Blizzard is cutting the division that develops Guitar Hero.
pulls plug on Guitar Hero and ambitions of air guitarists
If you haven't caught onto the Angry Birds fad phenomenon yet, get ready for an onslaught of even more content coming your way. Rovio Mobile, creator of the Angry Birds video game that is popular on iPhones, iPads and Android devices, has teamed up with Twentieth Century Fox, which is making the bird-related animated movie RIO.
So, you want to play some Call Of Duty on your PC? You could do that the old fashioned way, or you could spice things up a little by hooking your PC up to Microsoft's Kinect and Nintendo's Wii Remote for some added FPS awesomeness, One avid gamer has done just that, sharing the impressive results on YouTube for all to see.
Someone who missed the point that Farmville is a game for people not using their brains right now, published a book "for dummies" to get them up to speed.
A YouTube user whose video has since been pulled manages to get footage of Rock Band 3's track list. Take a look at the list fan site RockBandAide managed to compile before the video got yanked and tell us if you see any surprises:
Microsoft's press event went down last night at GamesCom, but with all the kenote and Sony/EA buzz this morning, you may have missed the finer points. Anyone up for some Microsoft Flight simulator?
If you're the kind of person who likes to waste their iPhone battery by mindlessly tapping the screen over...and over...and over again, then I cannot think of a better way for you to do that but with StuckPixel's The Button-- A Social Experiment. It's everything you'd want in a game--social features, leaderboards, etc.-- except without any of that annoying "gameplay" stuff.
Yahoo! announced a partnership with Zynga this morning to distribute the casual games developer's products through the Yahoo! global network. This puts FarmVille in front of 600 million people -- compared to the 400 million or so on Facebook.
Namco's big yellow guy turns 30 today and Google celebrates by turning their logo into a playable game of Pac-Man for the day. This "doodle" (the official name for Google's holiday makeovers) has 255 levels plus a 256th-level kill screen, just like the original arcade game.
More than a few quality iPad-optimized games have hit the App Store in the month-and-a-half since Apple released its new device. But which ones deserve a coveted space on your iPad?
We thought we'd seen just about everything on the App Store from a Dragon's Lair resurrection to MyVibe (look it up), but then we got a press release for an app called "My Virtual Girlfriend" and our collective head exploded.
A new study released this week and detailed in the journal PLoS One suggests humans can take ownership of a virtual body so completely when viewing a virtual world through a first-person perspective that they actually "feel" it when their virtual self gets slapped. Imagine what this could do for games where you get shot.