Adult gaming on the DS: the Chinatown conundrum
With 100 million DS and DSi in the hands of gamers worldwide, Nintendo’s portable is a mighty tempting platform for developers. So why are only seven of the nearly 1,100 games for the DS rated Mature? A popular argument is that Nintendo’s portable is for kids and soccer moms only, something that the Japanese developer and publisher has spent years fighting to disprove.
Spore creator wants to make toys fun again
Will Wright, the man who launched a million sims, is broadening his horizons. The famed digital toy maker responsible for SimCity, The Sims and Spore, is leaving video game publishing behemoth Electronic Arts to dabble in every form of entertainment from robots and toys to television shows, movies and, yes, even more video games.
Nintendo DSi is big draw
My 7-year-old son, it seems, has suddenly learned fiscal responsibility. But it wasn’t the ailing economy or thoughts of a car that started him on the road to saving; it was Nintendo.
Could the future of gaming be console free?
Last week’s annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco gave gamers a tantalizing glimpse at things to come in the world of interactive entertainment.
Apple’s portable game
After years of being a punch line among hardcore gamers, Apple has gotten serious about gaming, they just happened to use a cell phone and not a computer to do it.
