Cyber-sabre provokes real death

A Shanghai online game player stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber-sword, the China Daily has said, creating...

Sony PSP ready to launch

Yesterday at the York Theatre in Toronto the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) got its official roll-out in Canada. Besides having...

Judge Dismisses Claims in Marvel Lawsuit Against NCsoft

A U.S. district court judge in Los Angeles dismissed several key claims by comic book publisher Marvel Enterprises, Inc in...

Clone Game Fails to Excite

LucasArts has been following the same formula for years. Basically, it consists of taking whatever video-game genre is currently popular...

The Blind Fragging the Blind

Michael Feir is an avid gamer. He spent so much time playing games in college he created his own online...

Free TVs for game developers

To show its love for video game developers, Microsoft gave away 1,000 high-definition television sets Wednesday to those who listened...

Electronic Arts hit with fresh class action suit over unpaid overtime

An engineer working for leading publisher Electronic Arts has become the second staff member to file a class action lawsuit...

Portable Gaming, Sony-Style

If any machine could conceivably take a healthy bite out of Nintendo’s control of the handheld gaming market, Sony’s PlayStation...

Inflicting pain on ‘griefers’

As online-game companies court new and wider audiences, many are running into an old problem: “griefers,” a small but seemingly...

Gamers Eye Open Virtual Worlds

Peter Ludlow’s expulsion from The Sims Online may well be the highest-profile player ban in the history of video games....