Games migrate to the social side (BBC News)
The merging of social networks and games is set to dominate this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Gaming Moves From Casual to Social (AdWeek)
The audience for casual games appears to have bought, well, the farm. Traditional gaming sites are bleeding users, as millions of Web gamers shift their time to social games, such as the massively popular FarmVille.
Once-Casual Gamers Go 'Social' (Mediaweek)
Traditional gaming sites are bleeding users, as millions of Web gamers shift their time to social games, such as the massively popular FarmVille. That, coupled with an increasing desire among advertisers to move beyond old-school banner ads, has put the advertising market for online gaming very much in play, said analysts and buyers.
Days of surfing the Internet via TV still fairly remote (Austin American-Statesman)
Days of surfing the Internet via TV still fairly remote
Man Sells Unopened NES Game for $41K (GameSpy)
Rare Nintendo games selling for big bucks. Reminiscent of the baseball card rush of the 1980s, classic videogames are fast becoming highly valued collectibles.
Midterm madness (The Red and Black)
Students love Facebook, but maybe our loyalties should lie elsewhere The Red & Black acknowledges the epic amount of time students spend on Facebook, but consider these sites to spice up your midterm procrastination: - Textsfromlastnight.com — A collection of text messages submitted by senders and receivers, TFLN is guaranteed to make whatever you did last night [...]
Relic Entertainment Going Head-to-Head in Chaos Rising Multiplayer Broadcasting (IGN PC Games)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II -- Chaos Rising (PC) Watch the action as it happens.
Warhammer® 40,000TM: Dawn of War® II - Chaos RisingTM Goes Gold (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
AGOURA HILLS, Calif.----THQ Inc. today announced Warhammer® 40,000TM: Dawn of War® II – Chaos RisingTM, the highly anticipated standalone chapter in the critically acclaimed Real-Time Strategy series, has reached the gold master stage of development and entered manufacturing.
Bite Size News, February 16: Kill a Crow, Save a Plover Edition (Bostonist)
Image by bringmespears from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr . Crows, yes crows, are public enemy number on Cape Cod. The federal government is joining the fight on crows to help save piping plovers . [ Cape Cod Times ] Gov. Deval Patrick wants to hire a "Toll Czar" to develop an open road tolling system for Massachusetts to cut down on toll booth delays. [ WCVB ] A 14-year old was injured ...