I’m not exactly sure how this compares to the previous penetration statistics we’ve

I just got back from the Austin Game Conference. This is an event that has traditionally focused on large MMO type games. This year it was held in conjunction with the Women’s Game Conference and the Game Writer’s Conference.
Unfortunately I arrived partway through day 1 so I ended up missing what I heard were some [...]

I normally wouldn’t even post about this sort of thing if I hadn’t heard it from my Mom first. Yes that’s right, my Mom actually broke the news of this before I managed to see it on any websites
Apparently the new Xbox 360 kiosks that are being setup at Wal-Marts are messing up their [...]

I’m not sure if this is a good thing or not but it looks like the Spike video game awards are jumping from B-list celebs to an A-list roster.
According to this brief press releasish article Samuel L. Jackson will be hosting the 3rd annual awards this year, while Vin Diesel, Missy Elliott and The Rock [...]

The website isn’t updated yet, but I’ll be speaking at the Austin Game Conference next week on the Casual Game Evolution Summit: Moving Beyond Downloads panel.
I’ve heard good things about this event in the past but this will be my first time attending. Hopefully I’ll see some of you there!

While lots of people have talked about an aging gamer audience, this is the first article I’ve seen referring to Grandma Gamers. Apparently there is a 69 year old Grandma “Old Grandma Hardcore” who’s an avid gamer. She even has a blog. While the article itself is a good read, there’s some very interesting facts [...]

This probably isn’t something we’d normally blog about since Advergame developers won’t get access to this technology until a plugin developer actually incorporates it. (hint-hint Virtools, Macromedia, etc )
Local Ottawa-based company TransGaming has just released SwiftShader. This is a technology that provides a software renderer for the latest pixel and vertex shader effects. To [...]

Fresh on the heels of a retro TV commercial, spoofing the $10,000 Pyramid is the Comcastic
website and embedded advergames.
With a 70’s look and feel the broadband site is promoting Comcast’s cable services through activities and games.
What I liked: The games on this site are well done, and match the overall promotion. Each game is very [...]

The FuturePlay conference has just finished up and I think the organizers should be very happy with what they put together.
The topics were very wide ranging from topics on academia and industry collaboration to game design and AI. My own panel on the future of Casual Games (slides to be posted soon) seemed to be [...]

Our latest game for Detour has just launched. B’s Stunt Tracks allows you to play as B through a series of different stunt tracks to try to get the highest stunt score.
For the creative in you, this also features a level editor allowing anyone to create a new level and submit it for the [...]