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News Blips for Wednesday, October 12, 2011: Popcap unveils Popcorn Dragon for iOS devices; register now for early access to the new Xbox 360 dashboard; Burnout Crash will dangerously collide with iPhone and iPad this holiday; and more.

Apple's never fully supported gaming on the iPhone, but one small addition to the iPhone 5 could make it a true gaming platform.

Apple's never fully supported gaming on the iPhone, but one small addition to the iPhone 5 could make it a true gaming platform.

EA shells out a whopping $750 million for PopCap

News Blips for Tuesday, July 12, 2011: EA drops the cash to buy PopCap; Irrational doesn't have plans to develop for Wii U; Infinity Ward has invited a group of glitchers to test MW3 for a week.

News Blips for Tuesday, June 21, 2011: Investigators question LulzSec hacker about the PSN breach; Phil Harrison thinks Apple is on their way to big things in the video-game space; Peggle is available for Android for free on the Amazon Appstore; and more.

With so many chances to get on board with the realities of gamer demographics of the 21st century, how did so many companies at E3 2011 go so wrong?

A quick look at my dad's recent discovery of the game Tetris.

In this week's episode of the Mobcast, Night Owl Games Art Director Peter Franco, PopCap Editorial and Social Media Director Jeff Green, and Community Director for Microsoft Connected Experiences Kathleen Sanders join Bitmob's Dan Hsu. The group discusses their favorite indie titles, the migration of celebrated developers to Facebook, and more.

In this week's episode of the Mobcast, Bitmob's Dan Hsu, Brett Bates, Demian Linn, and Rus McLaughlin mull over the topic of alternative gaming platforms. The crew discusses GameStop's Flash-based website Kongregate, casual play on Facebook, iPhone apps, and their favorite non-digital games.

Need holiday gifts ideas for your gamer other than video games? Bitmob can help.

A recent branch of game theory called “game feel" asserts that the supposition that graphics, sound, feedback, and controls coalesce to produce a distinct feeling. The PS3 game Flower demonstrates this perfectly, and here's why.

This week: fake STDs, awful reality shows (like Jersey Shore), Dragon Quest 9 horror stories, Plants vs. Zombies for XBLA, Peggle, Who Do You Think You Are?, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, impossible puzzles, League of Legends, PAX enforcers, the fall TV season, the Video Music Awards, cranky old men, Pedobear alerts, dumb memes, and more

Warren Spector is right: Casual games make everyone a gamer. And that's a very good thing.

The summer's selection of new releases has been meager, to say the least. With no intention of heading outside, the Bitmob staff have delved into their dusty old closets in search of their favorite go-back games. What are yours?

By introducing my girlfriend to gaming, I changed my definition of what it means to be a gamer and rethought the entire hardcore-versus-casual gaming debate.

People keep bashing on Kinect, so here are some ways it could make "traditional" games better.

Check out this breakdown of Apple's iPad. It convinced this author to do something most people won't: sell his Dell laptop.

News Blips for May 27, 2010. Blizzard has little confidence for often ridiculous copy protection systems, casual gaming improves the brain's cognition, the Navy is adding the Wii to its ranks, and more.

I get all technical for my submission to the latest Bitmob Prompt, Fog of War.