Home

Card Games

A Look Back at the Videogame Reviews of January
02.01.12

Consoles and PC's have had a slow month interms of new AAA quality games arriving for your respected platform. While January got off to a slow start, it quickly recovered to bring us high quality tittles through digital distribution. Plenty of great downloadable arcade tittles were made available through XBLA, PSN and Steam, giving us many hidden gems on the digital marketplace. Let's look back at the games we reviewed over the past month.  

Click to Read More...
PlayStation Store Update – January 31st, 2012
02.01.12

Every Tuesday, Sony brings its PlayStation faithful new content, add-ons for your favorite games, Themes and avatars for your PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. Again another standard week of PSN goods you can get, but for the most part the main draw are going to be demos. Twisted Metal is finally going to hit store shelves and the fans of  the series will be eager to get their hands on the multiplayer demo now available.  

Click to Read More...
Xbox Live Store Update - 1/27/12
01.27.12

Another week is upon us and another batch of new content has arrived on Xbox Live. If you were a fan of Rockstar's L.A Noire. Then you will happy to see that all the DLC for the game is at a low price. If you were holding out on getting the DLC for the game then now is your chance. As personal recomendation, I would get the Nicholson Electroplating case and skip out on Reefer Madness. 

Click to Read More...
PlayStation Store Update – January 3, 2012
01.04.12

Every Tuesday, Sony brings its Playstation faithful new content, add-ons for your favorite games, Themes and avatars for your PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. For those who have the Playstation Plus, you can now get telltale's Back to The Future game for free. Ever wanted to find out what happened and wanted to continue your adventures with Marty Mcfly and Doc? Now is your chance, as you get all the six episodic for free. Another game you can get thanks to your PSN Plus membership is Sword & Soldiers. It's an enjoyable 2D sidescrolling strategy game that is highly replayable with a group of friends.

Click to Read More...
Zynga Expands Its Offerings Beyond Facebook Social Games
10.12.11

In anticipation of its IPO, Zynga showcased new games at Zynga Unleashed, its first media event hosted by CEO and Founder Mark Pincus held at its new San Francisco headquarters. The company gave a sneak peek of several new social games, including the next chapter in its Ville franchise and teased its own new play service, code named Project Z. CastleVille is the newest game heading to Facebook. Cityville, the last title in the franchise, has over 74 million gamers. There’s also a new Zynga Casino that features Zynga Poker and the newly announced Zynga Bingo to create the world’s largest and most social casino. The company is also launching a new Hidden Objects genre with the social game, Hidden Chronicles.

Click to Read More...
The Big Bang Theory Goes Social on Facebook with Mystic Warlords of Ka’a
09.23.11

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has launched The Big Bang Theory: Mystic Warlords of Ka’a. The new free-to-play Facebook game is based on the fictional fantasy card game that characters the hit CBS TV show have played over the past four seasons. The fifth season of the Warner Bros. Television comedy kicked off on its new Thursday night and the series has also entered into syndication. Now, there’s also the first video game, which fits nicely within the gamer mentality of the show’s characters.

Click to Read More...
Zynga Celebrates 4th of July with $1 Billion IPO Filing
07.01.11

Zynga had a very good year last year, and now the company is offering you the opportunity to get in on the action. Zynga filed for a $1 billion IPO today with Morgan Stanley & Co. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. serving as book running managers and representatives of the underwriters for the offering. The game maker that has lured hundreds of millions of gamers with titles like Farmville, Cityville and Empires & Allies is going public.

Click to Read More...
AT&T Partners with Zynga to Bring Social Games to Android Devices
06.29.11

AT&T has signed a deal with social games developer Zynga, designed to bring the very latest in mobile social gaming to AT&T’s millions of wireless customers. Popular games such as Words with Friends and Zynga Poker, plus customized content, will be featured for download on AT&T’s shelf in Android Market later this year. The agreement is the first of its kind between Zynga and a U.S. wireless carrier.

Click to Read More...
Richard Garriott’s Portalarium Social Gaming Company Gets More Cash
06.01.11

Richard Garriott’s Portalarium, an Austin-based publisher and developer of games for social network and mobile platforms, has closed a second round of bridge financing. Garriott, best known as Lord British by online gamers, has attracted investors from around the globe. He talks about his new company in this exclusive video interview.

Click to Read More...
Nintendo Sells 2.5 Million Copies of Pokémon Black and White Games in First Month
04.15.11
What’s old is certainly new again when it comes to Pokémon. The two latest additions of the Pokémon franchise, Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version, have sold 2.5 million copies in the U.S. in one month. Nintendo’s Pokémon master talks about the new Nintendo DS games in this exclusive video below.
Click to Read More...
Zynga Goes Hollywood by Adding Jeffrey Katzenberg to Its Board
04.04.11
Zynga is going Hollywood. The social gaming giant has added DreamWorks SKG co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg to its board of directors in an attempt to work more closely with Hollywood film and television properties. The San Francisco-based online game developer previously worked with DreamWorks on the 3D blockbuster Megamind, integrating the feature film into its Facebook hit FarmVille. Katzenberg talks about THQ’s Megamind video games in this exclusive video interview.
Click to Read More...
PAX East 2011: Magic 2012 Coming this Summer Featuring New Duels of the Planeswalkers Game
03.12.11
BOSTON -- Wizards of the Coast today announced the Magic: The Gathering 2012 product line-up featuring the Magic: The Gathering 2012 Core Set for the paper trading card game (TCG). Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 will ship this summer on Xbox LIVE  Arcade, PC/Steam and PlayStation Network this summer. These new games were on display at PAX East in Boston this weekend.
Click to Read More...
Zynga Holds First PokerCon Fan Event at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas
03.12.11
Zynga, the company behind Facebook hits like Cityville and Farmville, is bringing the virtual world to Sin City. The game publisher has assembled a poker celebrity lineup at the inaugural Zynga Poker fan event, Zynga PokerCon, taking place March 18 and 19 at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Hundreds of Zynga Poker fans in attendance will gain access to the Zynga Poker University led by world-renowned professional poker player Annie Duke. Additional poker legends attending the event include Doyle Brunson, Scotty Nguyen, Gavin Smith, Antonio Esfandiari, Vanessa Rousso and Mike Sexton. Zynga Poker fans will also be privy to award-winning rapper, singer and record producer B.o.B.’s exclusive and intimate show for Zynga PokerCon attendees.
Click to Read More...
GDC 2011: Game Developers Focus on New Baby Boomer Casual Gamers
03.03.11
SAN FRANCISCO, California – One of the driving themes at GDC 2011 is the growth of casual games beyond the traditional gaming audience. Today, nearly half (46 percent) of social gamers are at least 50 years old and dominated by women, according to recent social gaming research from casual game developer Popcap Games.  The average social gamer in the U.S. is a 48-year-old woman. In fact, 20 percent of social gamers were 60 or older. Social gaming is a fast-growing pastime for older Americans.This discovery reveals an interesting trend among older Americans and opens up a new opportunity for game developers.
Click to Read More...
Tabula Digita Uses Math Videogame Tournament to Award $60,000 in Scholarships
11.11.10
Tabula Digita is celebrating the home launch of its educational math videogame software with a national scholarship tournament and free software. To date, DimensionU has only been available in schools. Now through May 1, 2011, young people will be able to download a special tournament version of the DimensionU learning system for math for Free so they can participate in the U Games National Scholarship Tournament. 
Click to Read More...