BitTorrent isn’t usually a service studios want to 
partner with. The favorite application of movie and software pirates, the service is widely demonized throughout the state of California.
But the makers of The Tunnel will world premier their direct-to-DVD film on the service on May 19 – and they’ve doing so with the full cooperation of Paramount.
When Nintendo’s global president Satoru Iwata rocked this 
year’s Game Developers Conference with his controversial comments about developers of social and mobile games, there were a lot of questions. Was the company showing fear? Was it being too rigid in its thinking? Was Iwata actually right on the money?
A few people, though, were asking a more practical question: If the company felt this new breed of garage developers (like Rovio in its early days or Tiny Wings developer Andreas Illiger) were undervaluing their games, why not establish an opportunity for them to sell to the Nintendo audience at higher prices?
Glasses free 3D is still a fair ways from 
making it to the living room, but Samsung is starting to test the waters.
The electronics giant is showing off a 55-inch prototype this week of a set that doesn’t require any sort of dorky headgear. Before you get out your credit cards, the company says it will be at least three years before something like this will hit the market.
There are still a lot of looming questions about 
the 2011-2012 NFL season – most notably, will there be one? Now that uncertainty is starting to seep into the video game world.
Electronic Arts has already made it very clear: No matter what happens between the players and owners, there will be a new Madden game in stores this August. But if the season is substantially shortened or cancelled altogether, it could have a devastating impact on the game’s success.
We certainly have no problem getting caught 
up in the fun of playing games, but the people who create them have their pocketbooks to worry about, too. In this column, finance expert and GameSpy contributor Chris Morris guides you through the tricky corridors the gaming industry’s financial side, touching on big-time business decisions and how they matter to the common gamer.
Change is on the way for casual games titan PopCap Games. The question is: What sort of change?
Investors in the video game space are hoping it will be the odds-on favorite: A public offering by the beloved independent game company. But with all the cash floating around the video game space these days, no one is ruling out a takeover.
Good news, married folks! You can 
still play The Dating Game.
The legendary game show debuts Wednesday on all major social media sites — including Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Sadly, it does not star Bob Eubanks.
Want to know why studios are growing leary of 
Netflix? It’s all in the numbers.
A new report from The NPD Group shows that despite the best efforts of some enormous competitors, the online rental service holds a 61 percent market share in the streaming movie field so far this year.
There hasn’t been a lot of news from the 
world of Britannia lately, but design guru Richard Garriott is ready to change that.
The godfather of role-playing games has announced plans to bring his famous alter-ego to the world of social gaming. Lord British’s New Britannia (a working title) is in the early stages of development at Portalarium, his new company.
While its roots might be in the 
music industry, the annual South by Southwest has had a number of business success stories as well.
Some of the biggest Internet brands took off at the show – and several notable up and coming sites have the Austin get-together to thank for their early traction. Here are some of the most notable success stories.
The annual South by Southwest conference 
has always been viewed as a place for independent artists and startups to shine. Musicians, filmmakers and new tech companies all compete for awareness among the show’s influential show goers (who often act as evangelists for what they like when they return home).
With the surge of growth in SXSW, though, large companies have invaded the show, looking to capitalize on that same audience, to build awareness for their new products or try to woo some of those evangelists to sing their praises when they return home.
Some, though, just want to cash in on the crowd.
Chris Morris: Journalist 