Linda Jackson, professor of psychology and lead researcher on the project, said the study appears to be the first evidence based demonstration of a relationship between technology use and creativity. About 72 percent of U.S. households play video or computer games, according to the Entertainment Software Association. A study of nearly 500 12 year olds [...]

The move is a relatively inexpensive way for EA to build up Facebook versions of its hits like Mass Effect and titles for hardcore gamers using its extensive IP line. Electronic Arts has bought social game developer KlickNation and is turning it into a studio within BioWare its role playing developer division. The acquisition price wasn’t [...]

The Entertainment Software Rating Board, the same company responsible for assigning ratings to video games on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, will announce their new system for mobile apps on November 29. The CTIA Wireless Trade Association is planning to unveil a ratings system for mobile applications next week, allowing users to properly [...]

The newest “Ville” game in Zynga’s lineup, but it is a game all its own, thanks to its living world and MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role playing game) elements. The game, which is making its debut Friday on Facebook, brings many of the traditional elements. That have turned FarmVille and CityVille into multi-billion dollar successes, [...]

Bethesda Softwork’s freshly released “Rage” blends brilliant graphics with fast paced combat on foot and in vehicles in an expansive vision of an Earth rendered wasteland by an asteroid strike. Video game makers are breaking out the big guns and hitting players with a barrage of dynamite titles that will compete for their devotion and [...]

Mass Effect 3 is currently being developed by Bioware, the same studio responsible for Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. Electronic Arts will publish the upcoming role-playing game when it launches for the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 in North America on March 6th. Electronic Arts have released another new set of screens for [...]

Flash based games are growing with advent of Facebook gaming and the massive success it has garnered over the past few years. But the constraints it has on developers makes for not the best looking games. That all changes now, because Epic, through their mysterious sorcery, has Unreal Engine 3 running on Flash Player 11. [...]

That company is called id Software, the maker of such cult classics as Doom and Quake. Even in a world where gaming is being overtaken by consoles, iPhones, and casual titles, id remains faithful to its hardcore audience. In the great bastion that is the video game industry, there was one company that still catered [...]

Xbox Live’s Major Nelson has announced that the title managed to break all sorts of records in the first week alone. With the launch of Gears of War 3, many fans stood for long hours in queues, trying to get their hands on a copy of the game as soon as it was released and [...]

That’s why we’re seeing so many sequels these days, especially towards the end of the year, when the numbers at the end of many games are getting bigger and bigger. Just this year gamers are going to be treated to titles like Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 or The Elder Scrolls V. [...]