The games maker Electronic Arts (EA) has closed the acquisition of Playfish for $ 275 million in cash and other forms of compensation, extending its business to the growing social gaming industry.
The Playfish, a company founded two years ago with headquarters in London, makes games to be played on the computer between families and friends, [...]

The game “Civilization“, one of the most popular series of games of all time, will have a Facebook version with the name “Civilization Network”, which is planned for 2010.
The announcement was made by the Canadian developer Sid Meier, director of Firaxis Games, responsible for the game, page created on social networking specifically for the project.
Meier [...]

Here is good news for those video game lovers! According to a research conducted on the effects of video game playing on brain reveals that the brain functions more efficiently after playing video games for three months. This research was conducted earlier in the year 1992 by Richard Haier, a neurologist at the University of [...]

After disappointing the fans once again in E3 Expo of this year, it seems that Sony decided to make a move and it showed good innovations in Gamescon, the largest games fair of Europe that happened in the last passed in Cologne, Germany. And the innovations were good enough to perhaps finish a stagnation which [...]

The first American center of recovery for addicts in internet has just opened its doors–and its first patient is a fanatic adolescent for the game “World of Warcraft.”
The 19 year-old boy changed the warlike incursions in the virtual world of Azeroth for more bucolic activities, as feeds kid goats with feeding bottle and to build [...]

A team of researchers of the Center of Control and Prevention of Diseases (CDC) of the United States accomplished a study with five hundred adult people, with ages between 19 and 90 years. The study confirmed the nerd player’s old stereotype: most is above the weight, they have problems to relate with other people and [...]

Anyone who thinks that should be launched with more games with women like Lara Croft will agree with the results of the Dimitri Williams and a team of University of South Carolina According to them, most games sold have sold more white men than women and other minorities.
The study was based on data from nine [...]

Going to the gym to burn off the extra calories and stay in shape is a hard thing to do. It is monotonous and gets quite boring after a while. Having a home gym is just as bad because you lose out on checking out people fatter than you so you can feel better about [...]