Joey 
Nelson and his wife Lauren have a problem: They can’t agree on a name for their first child.
They’ve discussed it rationally. They’ve bounced their favorite names off friends and relatives. They’ve even narrowed down their initial lists to two each, but they still couldn’t agree.
That’s when they decided to crowdsource it.
Jennifer 
Lopez’s love don’t cost a thing — and neither does her game.
J Lo is acting as the front person for DancePad, a new app that transforms your iPad into a dance floor for your fingers.
During 
his lengthy career as a video game developer, Warren Spector has had his share of commercial hits and misses, but he’s rarely had a critical failure.
His 2010 release Epic Mickey split critics, however. Some heaped praise upon it, while others panned it harshly. Those diametrically opposed views gave the game a fairly low Metacritic score — the lowest mark Spector had ever received.
SOE 
isn’t as high profile as in its EverQuest heyday, but it’s settled in as one of the biggest players in free-to-play triple-A games. President John Smedley discusses why he thinks SOE’s headed in the right direction.
Most company presidents spent E3 locked in meeting rooms, only getting a few sparse moments to explore the show floor. Not Sony Online Entertainment’s John Smedley. He actively spent time in the thick of things — though he rarely strayed far from his own booth.
Smedley’s a heavy FPS fan — and he’s especially enamored with SOE’s upcoming action MMO Planetside 2. That professed dedication isn’t unusual when an executive has a product to sell, but few of those executives arrive to E3 2.5 hours early so they can sneak in a couple hours of gameplay, and lob trash talk at other players.
Before 
Halo, before Call of Duty — heck, even before Mario — there was Atari.
While the video game itself might have been invented before Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney decided to start the company, it was Atari that effectively launched the video game industry. And it was on this date 40 years ago that Atari began its march toward history.
Zynga 
is heading back to the farm.
At the company’s Zynga Unleashed press event Tuesday, CEO Mark Pincus unveiled a number of new titles and initiatives meant to showcase the company’s independence. Chief among those was a formal sequel to its breakout hit Farmville and a new entry in its popular “With Friends” line of mobile games.
If 
you thought cell phones were a drive time distraction, just wait until people are trying to play Kinectimals during rush hour.
A want-ad placed by Microsoft’s Connected Car team indicates that the company is investigating ways to include Kinect’s motion-sensing technology into vehicles as it strives to become a player in the “smart car” field.
Hollywood 
loves a good high speed car chase — and EA’s Need For Speed franchise is chock full of ’em. It was only a matter of time before the two came together.
DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to the racing franchise and is fast tracking it for a 2014 release, which will coincide with the series’ 20th anniversary. Filming is set to begin next year.
Over 
the past year, no tech company has had ups and downs quite like Zynga.
In the days leading up to its debut on Wall Street last December, the social game kingpin was heralded as The Next Big Thing, an unstoppable force in an evolving industry, with proponents pointing to the enduring draw of games like Farmville, Mafia Wars, and Words With Friends. Lately, though, the company’s stock has taken a brutal beatdown and those proponents have changed their tune.
The 
3DS is getting supersized.
Nintendo announced plans in an online video early Friday to roll out a new version of its 3D handheld system — called the 3DS XL — which will effectively double the system’s screen size. The handheld will go on sale in the U.S. on Aug. 19 for $200.
Chris Morris: Journalist 