Facebook Co-Founder’s Social Network

GOOD, a social innovation website and the publisher of GOOD magazine, has just bought Jumo — the Chris Hughes-helmed social network built around philanthropy. While the amount and exact terms are unknown, Hughes will be joining GOOD as a senior adviser while keeping Jumo close to its charitable roots. “Jumo.com will be the home for our open source...

New Xbox 360 250GB S hacked with video

It’s no secret the older version of the Xbox 360 was being exploited as you could look on Craigslist and find hacked consoles and “backup” games, quite frequently. When the new Xbox 360 “Slim” was released, first thoughts I had was that Microsoft was permanently addressing the “Red Ring of Death” (known to MS as the “overheating”) issue. In the...

Is Sega Worried About Sonic Colors Stealing Sonic 4s Thunder

The saga of the latest two Sonic games has to be some of the oddest handling of PR I’ve seen in the industry in a long time. First, Sega made a huge deal of teasing Sonic 4 through its Project Needlemouse hype campaign, with the reveal of a new 2D Sonic game met with renewed hope by longtime series fans. A few months later, without any fanfare or...

Assassins Creed 2 Lost Money ($54.02 Million)

No s***. What do you get when you mix a medicore game with tons of DRM crap. A loss. Now watch them blame all the dirty pirates out there for this one, lol, fools. Here is the story from Gamasutra :French Splinter Cell publisher Ubisoft recorded a decrease in sales and a loss for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010, blaming worldwide economic...

IVG: Developer: Medal of Honor

Being a franchise reboot, how drastically different from the past games will this Medal of Honor game be? For this game, we’ve gone back to our roots and the core tenets that the franchise was founded on. We’ve focused on the soldier and telling their story with authenticity and respect. With so much emphasis on multiplayer these days, single player...

StumbleUpon’s New Explore Feature

Social discovery tool StumbleUpon has inspired 25 billion clicks by directing people to pages accross broad topics like “art” or “fashion.” Now it’s taking its recommendations to a more specific level with a new feature it launched on Wednesday. With the “Explore Box” feature, users can Stumble pages related to hundreds of thousands specific topics...

Real Football 2010 for Android and Iphone

Real Football has been involved in a real ding-dong battle with the likes of FIFA for footy supremacy in recent years on both iPhone and mobile. Gameloft’s footy franchise always plays a fast, fluid game, encouraging swift tippy-tappy passing triangles and surging runs into the box. Unfortunately, the franchise’s Android debut doesn’t make the statement...