Month: March 2012

It’s called market penetration, and it’s glorious. A recent survey from the Nielsen Group has revealed that over 56% of households in the United States own current-gen consoles, a figure up six percent from last...

SecuROM is a DRM system widely hated by gamers for its amazing ability to screw up computers and prevent legitimate customers from playing the games they have purchased. It’s so much trouble that a lawsuit was actually...

Apple’s portable not-a-notebook slab, the iPad, has found a niche among computery types, but the one place it hasn’t gained much traction is the gaming industry. Part of that was because of hardware limits....

How do you make a sequel to a game that doesn’t need one? That’s the question Valve faced with creating a follow-up to the surprise hit, Portal. The process of answering that question turned out to be a strange...