New Congressional Caucus Formed to Represent the Gaming Community

Today is a day of rejoicing for the gaming community.  After years of under representation and demonizing by both the government and the media, the gaming community finally has a voice within the U.S. government with the formation of the Congressional Caucus for Competitiveness in Entertainment Technology, or E-TECH for short.

Toy Fair 2011: AR.Drone

Parrot demonstrated their AR.Drone at the 2011 Toy Fair, a remote-control saucer piloted through an iPod/iPad application. The AR.Drone is associated with two apps. The AR.FreeFlight application controls the AR.Drone and allows exactly what the name implies: “Free Flight.” AR.Pursuit is a game played with another person who owns the AR.Drone; one person flees from…

Tetris Link w Packaging Techno Source

Toy Fair 2011: Tetris: Link

Techno Source previewed its new Tetris game at the 2011 Toy Fair. The new game is called Tetris: Link, a cross between Tetris and Connect Four. The gameplay is quite simple: each player starts off with about twenty-five Tetrominoes (yes, that is the name of the Tetris pieces!) of their own color. The first player rolls a…

Mirror’s Edge 2 Banished to Development Hell

More bad news for gamers.  EA has announced that the development of Mirror’s Edge 2 has been halted indefinitely. The news came from Sweden’s TV program called Press2Play, where a news segment announced that EA has asked the Swedish developers DICE to cease the development on the game. “EA was shown a prototype, but declined,” said Press2Play, translated from…