Games museum

The Frisco Community Development Corp. board voted unanimously Thursday to approve the terms of an agreement to bring the nonprofit Videogame History Museum to town. The museum’s collection of tens of thousands games, consoles, artifacts and memorabilia on the gaming...

Animation boom

Few countries as well positioned to take advantage of the growing demand for high quality animation and visual effects as Canada and studios up north are definitely seeing the benefits. “One of the reasons to work anywhere is the execution and results you get,” says...

Empathy Trip

Trip Hawkins founded Electronic Arts in 1982, where he created the first John Madden Football video game. Now the Madden games are among the bestselling video game franchises of all time and Trip is a video game legend. When you ask Trip to remember the early days, he...

Crash coming

Apparently prophets of doom haven’t faded out, they just went online. Hugely popular gamer Boogie2988 has just foretold of the second major crash of the gaming industry. The first one occured in the early 80s when video games looked to be a passing fad and developers...

Tampons not guns

Two New York high schoolers are hoping to combat misogyny with Tampon Run, a game that cleverly replaces guns in an old school shooter game with, well, tampons. The girls, who graduated from the Girls Who Code camp — a program that teaches girls to code in hopes of...