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Faceplates: Pre-Order Eternal Sonata; Receive Gorgeous Faceplate

The official Eternal Sonata website has appeared as if by magic and has announced that the game is now available for pre-order Gamestop/EB Games. Now, I know a lot of you have the concept of...

History Really Is Fun!: 'The History of Zork'

Gamasutra has published the second installment of its series that "present[s] in-depth histories of the first ten games voted into the Digital Game Canon," and the subject this time is Zork. It's a...

China: China Starts New Exchange for Game Industry and Others

Along with animation and cartoon assets, the Chinese government is trying to give the game industry a boost by launching asset trading on the Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange (SUAEE) (in...

Clips: Phantom Hourglass Video Blitz

We have a lovely bunch of gameplay videos from Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for you today. Three in fact! In this first one we get to see some puzzle solving, and after the jump you can see...

Impressions: Harry Potter OOTP Wii

Bitter disappointment doesn't even begin to describe my feelings on the new Harry Potter game for the Wii. Sure I have a pile of other games I could be playing, some of them I even got for free, but...

One Of The Only Certainties In Life: South Korea To Tax Virtual Assets

The Korean National Tax Service has announced they will be tacking on value added tax (VAT) to real-money transactions (RMT) in virtual worlds beginning 1 July. It seems like a business that would...

History Is Cool!: This Day in Gaming, June 30th

2000: Activision releases Dark Reign 2 for PC in the US. Why do some franchises feel forced to reinvent instead of simply improve? Here's hoping for a Dark Reign 3 the way we all wanted Dark Reign 2....

Edutainment - Or Not: 'World of Borecraft': The Problem With Serious Games?

Slate has a fun (and scathing) article up on 'the problem with serious games' - with companies like Persuasive Games getting quite a lot of press recently, newsgames and 'serious games' have also...

Rumor: Katamari Steers Around PS3; Rolls Up Wii Instead?

Some games just seem to perpetually keep the rumor mill grinding at a pace, and the upcoming Beautiful Katamari is certainly one of them. First there were the Xbox 360 exclusivity rumors, then the...

Game Design: What Web Developers Can Learn From Game Designers

Danc over at Lost Garden has some thoughts up on what web designers can (or should?) learn from game designers, and what some of them want to learn. Games are interesting to web developers because...