Games

As promised, the Bing “entertainment experience” is getting into gear with updates for music, tv, movies, and now more games, too. According to this post on the Bing blog, those searching for free games on Bing have several new options, including Belle's Beauty Boutique, Carniball,Fishdom Spooky…

The popular “Settlers of Catan” board game has been transported to Microsoft Surface, according to SeattlePi. The game, which typically involves a physical board, die and cards, has been made entirely digital thanks to Vectorform, a multi-platform design company and Microsoft partner. Reporter Nick…

Microsoft has just revealed its Xbox LIVE launch titles which will arrive on the upcoming Windows Phone 7 handsets. Within the “Games” hub of phones built with the new mobile operating system, you’ll be able to access games, demos, Xbox LIVE leaderboards, achievement info and more. The initial…

Happy Halo Map Pack Day! As of today, Halo 3's formerly $10 set of maps, the Heroic Map Pack, is now free. This add-on lets you add new battle zones to the Halo 3 game. The pack consists of the Rat's Nest, Standoff, and Foundry maps, where players are provided with things like labyrinthine mazes…

Congratulations to Torpex Games for shipping Schizoid on the Xbox LIVE Arcade! The game is the first game to be made commercially available on the Xbox 360 that was built entirely with the XNA Game Studio. Not only that, but the game made Penny Arcade’s PAX10 list, too. According to the XNA blog,…

By now, you've heard about the Popfly Game Creator and you're ready to get started building your first game. Great! But what do you do? Well luckily, there is the Popfly Wiki to help you out. On this web site, you can find helpful info and documentation about Popfly, including how to use the Game…

Vista Ultimate users recently got a nice surprise: a handful of new Ultimate Extras have been made available for download. These Extras include new DreamScenes, soundscapes, and a fun puzzle game called Tinker. The four new DreamScenes are simply four different variations on one image of clouds and…

The Windows Mobile Developer Team is giving away free games to those that follow their team’s Twitter account here at www.twitter.com/wmdev. The posts that include the name of the game and the registration code are designated with the word [FREEBIE] but they are first come, first serve. Only the…

How hot is the new Beatles’ edition of Rock Band? A new site called TweetMyGaming can show you. This dedicated, real-time Twitter tracker aggregates all the tweets about video games and displays them on its main page in a live-updating feed. You can see what games others are searching for at the…

Advertising in video games has been around for a while now and we've all sort of been sitting back to see how far it will actually go.  It's going to go as far as it does in reality.  Toyota and Sony BMG already have advertising in Second Life. If game companies can make extra cash through…