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GOG, NVIDIA, Frozenbyte, Notch vs SOPA
Expect plenty more of these kinds of updates leading up to next week’s web-wide SOPA protests: it’s an enormously important issue for…
Slot machine maker IGT buys social game dev for $500M
Slot machine and virtual gambling game company IGT (International Game Technology) has purchased Double Down Interactive, the social game developer behind DoubleDown…
Diablo 3 rated in South Korea
Diablo 3 continues its sprint march stroll shuffle toward release, with new evidence suggesting that the game is at least near completion:…
Barry Cottle joins Zynga as Exec VP after EA Interactive absorbed into EA
EA Interactive, the branch in charge of social and mobile gaming, has been folded into other divisions at EA, most notably to…
Firefall Devs Speak And Act Against SOPA
Firefall developers Red 5 are going further than simply expressing their denunciation of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in words. On…
Tropico 4 With Space & Internet Filtering?
Yes, it seems to be real. Kalypso have sent word that the expansion for Tropico 4, which is called Modern Times, will…
Skyrim Mom is your new favorite Twitter feed
Bethesda's Nick Breckon is documenting his 65-year-old mom's adventures in Skyrim through Twitter. And yes, it's exactly as awesome (and strangely huggable)…
Call to Arms! Starhawk Public Beta Begins Tuesday, January 17th
This past November and December we conducted our Private Beta for Starhawk. It was incredibly valuable to our team at LightBox and…
Underworld Awakening Xbox Live All Nighter Sweepstakes — Play Modern Warfare 3 And Win A Trip To Los Angeles
In honor of the January 20th release of the movie Underworld Awakening, starring Kate Beckinsale, Xbox LIVE is holding an awesome sweepstakes…
SSX to change your working definition of ‘tagging’
Forget about all that Facebook nonsense. SSX is trying to redefine the way you use the word “tagging” between friends with its…
‘Windosill’ iPad Review – A Brief Trip Into Surrealism
Windosill is a slip of a thing, hardly big enough to fill one play session. It’s worth it, though, for its gorgeous…
Windows Live login suggested as Xbox Live security flaw
Since reporting on the “FIFA hack” and related security concerns with Xbox Live and the Windows Live ID system, we’ve received stories,…
DICE promises vigilance against Battlefield 3 cheaters
Finding out that cheating has apparently become rampant in Battlefield 3’s online multiplayer is somewhat of a travesty, considering how much some…
‘Terra Noctis’ Review – Straightforward Fun
Terra Noctis is a charming platformer with tight controls and level design that encourages exploration. It’s not flashy, but it’s straightforward fun….
Dark Souls PC Petition Builds Steam With Namco Acknowledgment
If Saints Row: The Third hadn’t come out swinging in November to completely dominate any Game of the Year thoughts in my…
Sega responds to its SOPA non-response with a joke video
In what appears to have been an automated response, Sega customer support told a concerned gamer to try performing a “hard reset…
Minecraft 1.1 And Much More For Mojang
This could be the year that Mojang stops meaning Minecraft and nothing but Minecraft. In an interview with Edge, CEO Carl Manneh…
Firefall shutting down beta in SOPA protest
Red 5 Studios will shut down the Firefall beta on January 18, joining Reddit in its one day protest of the “Stop…