It wasn’t too long ago that game developer Zynga was a sweetheart stock and industry leader –but as of late the picture’s been not so pleasant. Many of Zynga’s top titles have been losing users, and the trend does not appear to be reversing; has the novelty worn off for gamers? That’s just some of what the Forbes Games team is talking about today: For more news, reviews and analysis, check out these stories from our staffers and contributors. Zynga’s Facebook Games Continue to Shed Players by the Millions It’s been a rough week for Zynga and Facebook in the stock market, as both have seen significant drops since the latter’s IPO, but perhaps investors are taking a look at some disheartening numbers pertaining to ... Continue reading →
Noah Bradley helps create the worlds where gamers live. As an environment concept artist and illustrator, he imagines the look and feel of places like Westeros and Greyhawk; his paintings appear in games like Dungeons & Dragons and the Game of Thrones card game, or serve as concept art that helps video game designers craft interactive universes. Noah’s latest project is with Wizards of the Coast, the Hasbro subsidiary that publishes Dungeons & Dragons. His paintings appear in Into the Unknown: The Dungeon Survival Handbook: Published on May 15, it consists of rules for the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Players can find new powers, equipment, feats, character themes, and races, including the kobold and the goblin; Dungeon Masters get advice on building memorable ... Continue reading →
The Geek Picture of the Day can amplify electrical signals as they are transferred from input to output terminals. click to embiggen Computer History Museum senior curator Dag Spicer looks at a replica of the first transistor at the Mountain View, Calif. museum, in this Dec. 12 2007 photo. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) Continue reading →
Mass Effect 3 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Everything comes to an end — but sometimes not until fans are ready. In March, the unsatisfying ending to the hit game Mass Effect 3 mobilized a legion of fans in protest, and convinced developers at Electronic Arts’ Bioware division to take the unprecedented step of creating post-game content to fix their mistakes. Bioware’s been hush-hush about the details of the upcoming expanded ending. But a few details have begun to leak out of the Canadian studio, and fans are already drawing conclusions about what they mean. That’s just some of what the Forbes Games team is talking about today: For more news, reviews and analysis, check out these stories from our staffers and contributors. These Three Characters Are ... Continue reading →
For a while, their message was everywhere. They paid for billboards, took out full-page ads in newspapers, distributed thousands of tracts. They drove across the county in RVs emblazoned with verses from the books of Revelation and Daniel. They marched around Manhattan holding signs. They broadcasted day and night on their network of radio stations. They warned the world. That warning turned out to be a false alarm. No giant earthquake rippled across the surface of the earth, nor were any believers caught up in the clouds. Harold Camping, the octogenarian whose nightly Bible call-in show fomented doomsday mania, suffered a stroke soon afterward and mostly disappeared from sight. The press coverage, which had been intense in the weeks leading up to May 21, 2011, ... Continue reading →
Everything is proceeding as the Geek Picture of the Day has foreseen. Star Wars fan Danny Fitzgerald of Staten Island, in the Darth Vader costume, poses in front of Loews Astor Plaza movie theater in Times Square in New York, May 25, 1983, where fans were lined up for the premiere of Return of the Jedi. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff) Continue reading →
Back in the early 80s, the boom in arcades and entertainment made icons of the likes of Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Q*Bert. The popularity and novelty of video games was great enough to produce a fair amount of peculiar cultural runoff. If you grew up then, you may or may not remember watching cartoon series based on the likes of Kangaroo and Space Ace, or raunchy arcade-set comedies like Hollywood Zap and Joysticks ("More Fun Than Games!"). Some dubious efforts to translate the excitement of playing video games into different mediums also happened, as seen with the ill-conceived board game above. There was even a game show based on the concept of watching people play video games: the TBS-produced “Starcade.” The whole concept behind the ... Continue reading →
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