Watch EA

If Electronic Arts has its way, the next time you look down at your watch, one of its games could be looking back at you. The video game giant has two of its teams investigating how to make wearable games, another indicator that these once-niche devices could soon...

Wage-fixing?

DreamWorks Animation SKG, the Walt Disney Co. and other Hollywood companies are targets of a class-action lawsuit that accuses the animation and visual effects giants of agreeing not to poach each other’s workers. The lawsuit, filed Monday in San Jose, said the...

Good stuff from games

Eyes gazing straight ahead, backs caved, thumbs ceaselessly mashing buttons: It’s a sight to make any parent cringe. Especially when the game involves rapid gunfire, throat-slitting, body-splitting and other gruesome acts. The drawbacks of gaming are well known....

Destiny tonight

The most expensive video game ever made will be available to gamers around the world from midnight tonight. Destiny – with its budget of 500 million US dollars (£310 million) – has been developed by studio Bungie, maker of the Halo franchise, and published...

Misogynists ‘R Us

It’s easy to say that you’re not part of the problem. Women in the video gaming industry are being consistently harassed and abused, and because we are not personally making rape threats over Twitter TWTR -0.84%, we are, at the very least, neutral. Good for us.  Each...