• Wii U: Giant remote for Wii or a new way to play games?

    I say it’s a little bitĀ of both. One thing Nintendo has always been is forward thinking. Everything they do is not for the sake of what people want but rather to answer the question; “How do we make great games.” They were the first with a 6 bouttonĀ controller on the SNES. Everyone soon followed their…

  • Now recognized as art, Games get some Endowment Love By the Feds.

    The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a federal agency supporting artists and art organizations across the U.S., recently expanded eligibility for grant money to media produced for the Internet, interactive/mobile technologies, and digital games. “We will continue to support television and radio,” explains Alice Myatt, director of media arts at the NEA, “but we…

  • Activision will have subscription service for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3

    Micro economics is big business in games. Just take a look at Xbox Live or Play Station Network when it is working. Download add on’s are the norm right now. With the music craze a few years back it almost became a business on it’s on. Guitar Hero and Rockband at one time had downloaded…