Reuters - Publisher Hearst Corp., seeking a
bigger chunk of the male Internet audience, will acquire Ugo
Networks Inc., a network of Web sites devoted to video games,
movies and other entertainment, the company said on Tuesday.

You knew this day would come, the day when Guitar Hero went the way of other popular rhythm game franchises, releasing pseudo-sequels and expansions that are really just batches of new songs with little to nothing in the way of gameplay or feature upgrades. Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s is the first for the […]

Ghost Recon is a franchise that was born on the PC, so it was nice last year when Ubisoft commissioned a separate version of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter that was built directly for the PC instead of merely porting over the Xbox 360 game of the same name. That way, Xbox 360 gamers […]

With the $100 price drop of Sony’s discontinued 60GB PlayStation 3 now in the books, many industry-watchers are eagerly awaiting July’s hardware sales figures from the stat-tracking NPD Group. While those official numbers won’t be available until August, a few analysts have already weighed in on the console’s prospects, stating that while it was a […]

The Next Generation site is running a piece discussing new findings about in-game advertising. The results of collaboration between an ad firm and a research company show that ads in games are actually having an effect on players. Double Fusion’s involvement in the study throws the results into question. Take these statistics with a grain […]