Nashville Offers More Than Just Country Music: Startup Scene Shines At Southland

It’s easy to overlook a city like Nashville, Tennessee. On the surface, it’s all country music and southern hospitality, and even though country music is gaining mainstream appeal these days, there’s more going on in this great city than first meets the eye. For example, $1.4 billion of venture capital has been raised by 215 [...]... Read More

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Latest Humble Indie Bundle Is Full Of Amazing Games, Unsurprisingly Selling Like Hotcakes
BY: Corey Cummings
The latest collection includes five of some of the greatest indie games to come out in the past few years, and best of all you get to name your own price.
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Microsoft Says Xbox Sales Are “Gravity Defying”
BY: Corey Cummings
In a blog post this week, Yusuf Mehdi of the Xbox team, detailed how the “gravity defying” sales of the nearly seven year old console are due to its transformation from gaming to all media.
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You Don’t Know Jack Debuts On Facebook
BY: Corey Cummings
The popular 90s trivia game has resurfaced as a free-to-play app, containing all the quirky trivia fun of the full release with the added benefit of letting you crush your Facebook friends.
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Amazon Instant Video Is Now On Xbox Too
BY: Corey Cummings
Amazon’s Instant Video streaming service is a PlayStation 3 exclusive no longer. Today Amazon announced that its Netflix competitive streaming library has made the transition to the Xbox 360 console, nearly two months after it first debuted on the PlayStation 3.
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Ubi And Kinect Will Turn Your Office Wall Into A Touch Screen
BY: Corey Cummings
The Ubi technology utilizes Microsoft’ Kinect camera to track hand movements over a display and input motion commands into existing platforms.
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University Of Chicago To Provide Gaming Collection For Academic Research
BY: Corey Cummings
A University of Chicago library will begin carrying a selection of classic video games this summer, providing students with access to dozens of influential titles spread across three decades of gaming.
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Job Opening Confirms Skype Integration For Next-Gen XBOX
BY: Corey Cummings
A recently posted London job opening on the Microsoft Careers website confirms the development of a next generation XBOX with Skype integration. The job opening tasks a lead program manager with running a team to build and support the application through the post-launch period of the yet-to-be-named console.
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Sony Patent For Game Interrupting Commercials Uncovered
BY: Corey Cummings
Will your gaming sessions be interrupted by advertisements? A recently uncovered patent from Sony suggests the time might be closer than you think.
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US Navy Launches MMO Wargame To Help Brainstorm Energy Solutions
BY: Corey Cummings
On Tuesday The Navy will begin a three day massively multiplayer online brainstorming game, in which players will earn points for creating and discussing energy solutions.
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PlayThru: A Gaming Alternative To CAPTCHA Bot Checks
BY: Corey Cummings
Would you rather decipher random illegible letters or make digital pancakes? This week Detroit-based company Are You a Human announced PlayThru, its fun alternative to headache inducing CAPTCHA technology.
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EA Offers Free 90 Day Digital Distribution For Crowd Funded Games
BY: Corey Cummings
This week Electronic Arts announced it will waive all distribution fees for any completed, crowd-funded game that would like to be sold through its Origin digital distribution service for up to 90 days after the game’s launch.
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Wolfenstein 3D Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Browser-Based Nazi Slaying
BY: Corey Cummings
Wolfenstein 3D, the grandfather of all first person shooters, has turned 20 years old today. Its creator studio id Software, along with Bethesda Softworks, is celebrating by providing the classic game free of charge in both mobile app and browser formats. Wolfenstein plays out in a castle of the same name, where a prisoner of war [...]
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PR And VCs Behaving Badly, or How And Why I Became A Shill For Zynga’s “Draw Something” On Japanese Television
BY: Jason Rowley
Pics or it didn’t happen, right? Well… it happened. That’s a picture of me being interviewed by reporters from Japanese television station TV Asahi when I was in Tokyo a little over a week ago. We were walking out of the subway when the gentleman in the purple/magenta hoodie and chinos approached me and asked [...]
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Draw Something Loses Nearly 4 Million Users, Introduces Sponsored Drawings
BY: Corey Cummings
OMGPOP, creators of the hot mobile app Draw Something, was acquired for $200 million by casual gaming giant Zynga in late April, but since the acquisition the number of daily users across mobile versions of the popular drawing game have mysteriously dropped off. According to figures from WebMediaBrands, the mobile app is seeing nearly 4 million fewer [...]
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MIT Tetris Hack Took 4.5 Years Of Planning [VIDEO]
BY: Jon Christian
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology poured more than four years of time and effort into realizing a stunt that saw the front of a 21-story campus building transformed into a mammoth game of Tetris. The students installed a 9 by 17 window grid of LED lights on the windows of the Cecil and [...]
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Microsoft Rumored To Release $99 XBOX 360 + Kinect Bundle Next Week
BY: Corey Cummings
Rumors have been running rampant today about Microsoft’s plan to release a $99 bundle of its XBOX 360 console and a Kinect motion sensor. But there’s a catch, of course.
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ESA, President’s Council On Fitness Encourage Active Gaming
BY: Corey Cummings
The ESA and the President’s Council On Fitness have issued a challenge to the American people to get them to eat better and game healthier.
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Social App Usage Catches Up To Games On Smartphones
BY: Corey Cummings
Flurry Analytics has released a revealing report showing social app usage catching up to the once-dominate gaming app category on smartphones.
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Jay-Z Launches Facebook Game
BY: Corey Cummings
Jay-Z has launched a new Facebook game called Empire that parallels his personal rise to fame.
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Nintendo Records First Ever Annual Loss Of $531 Million
BY: Corey Cummings
Today Nintendo released its earnings report for the past fiscal year, revealing that the company is down $531 million. 2011 is its first ever year in the red.
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Minecraft Creator Settles Piracy Dispute With Deathmatch
BY: Corey Cummings
The indie developer behind mega hit Minecraft is known both for his Swedish quirkiness and showing up at events donning an iconic black fedora, but when Markus Persson (commonly known as Notch) challenged the owner of a piracy website to a deathmatch, shit got real. Earlier this month, the developer asked the owner of MineCraftForFree.com [...]
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Gaming-Specific Crowd Funding Platform Gambitious: Don’t Donate, Invest
BY: Corey Cummings
A new crowd funding platform specifically for video games is planned to launch alongside this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo. The Kickstarter alternative is hoping to snag some of the recent success gaming projects have seen on the popular crowd funding website. Gambitious was announced on Friday at the Dutch Festival of Games. The company’s CEO [...]
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Valve Employee Handbook Reveals Creative Keys To Success
BY: Corey Cummings
A copy of Valve’s newest employee handbook has surfaced this weekend in the Flamhaus‘ forums, detailing many core philosophies and unusual structuring of the greatly successful entertainment company. More surprisingly than anything the handbook wasn’t created to make sure employees follow Valve’s rules of operation, but to help new hires focus their creativity in a workspace [...]
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New Zealand Researchers Design Game To Help Teens Fight Depression
BY: Corey Cummings
Psychiatric researchers at the University of Auckland have developed a computer game that aims to help teenagers battle depression. In a recent study, the game has been proven to be more effective than traditional therapy for some teens.
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Ron Paul: The Videogame
BY: Jon Christian
It was the internet that allowed fringe candidate Ron Paul to explode in popularity, becoming at a certain point a serious runner in the 2012 Republican primary. So perhaps it’s fitting that he will be immortalized in a video game. Ron Paul: Road To REVOLution has broken it’s $5,000 Kickstarter goal with 11 days to [...]
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