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When you think of Facebook gaming, what comes to mind? Probably Bejeweled or Farm Wars, right?
Surprisingly, the Facebook gaming world has a lot more to offer than gem matching or bales of hay.
Most hardcore gamers cringe at the thought of playing games on Facebook. Sure, the graphics aren’t great and there’s not much to the [...]

Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson recently shared details on his newest project, the strangely-named “0×10c”, via the game’s official site. Not much is known about how the game will play, but we do know some interesting details about the game’s setting.

In the year 1988, a “deep sleep cell” (cryogenic storage) is invented, compatible with [...]

After years of waiting, loyal fans of the SimCity urban planning simulation games finally have a new title to look forward to. The venerable franchise dates back to 1989, which saw the release of game designer Will Wright’s original “SimCity” for the MS-DOS PC operating system. The game was published by the then-fledgling [...]

San Francisco-based video game developers Double Fine, makers of Iron Brigade, Stacking, and Psychonauts, made headlines this week by raising more than 1.4 million dollars for a new unnamed adventure game via Kickstarter.

Kickstarter, if you haven’t heard of it, is a website that facilitates “crowdsourcing” for a vast variety of projects. Crowdsourcing refers to [...]

An ambitious team of Dutch engineering students from Delft University of Technology recently constructed a world record-setting 12-foot-wide NES controller. The controller, which is constructed primarily from steel, weighs in at a staggering 265 pounds. It took the students one month and roughly $6,000 to build. Perhaps the most impressive feature of [...]