Another season of the Global StarCraft League comes to a close tonight (11PM Pacific), with some familiar faces in the finals. Unlike the previous Open Season and Code S/Code A tournaments, this GSL season is billed as an eight-on-eight World Championship featuring Korea’s best against the rest of the...

Last year’s MLG Dallas saw plenty of excellent action, culminating in a big win by LiquidJinro, which turned out to be a bellwether of his impressive performance in subsequent GSL tournaments. Now GSL’s starting its 2011 season with another big Dallas tournament (featuring StarCraft 2, Halo:...

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is more popular than Sony’s Playstation 3 or Nintendo’s Wii, says MyVoucherCodes. Research by the online voucher site revealed 43 percent of all games console searches on the site of for the Xbox 360, while Sony’s Playstation 3 is lagging behind with 31 percent of...

LTE-enabled, mobile cloud-based gaming is coming. A company called Ubitus has recently demonstrated its GameCloud solution on DOCOMO’s LTE network and it looks promising. Basically the idea is that users with any handheld device, smartphone included, will be able to play high-end games. All the heavy stuff...

A few weeks ago we wrote about Phylo, a Flash-based puzzle game that uses addictive gameplay to help scientists map human genetic code. It’s part of the trend of making otherwise mundane things fun by adding gaming elements, especially Xbox-like achievements. Another good example is Foursquare, which...