Women-friendly video games

Often unarmed, routinely unmanned, and sometimes gay-friendly, a new breed of games is geared to female players

Curt Schilling, Former Red Sox Pitcher, Makes Video Games

Curt Schilling, the former Boston Red Sox pitcher, left baseball to start 38 Studios, a video game company, maker of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

Video games prizes up for grabs

Video games developers could win £25,000 of funding in a competition run by Abertay University in Dundee.

THQ Announces Strategic Agreement with New Digital Developer Innovative Leisure

THQ today announced a strategic agreement with digital development studio Innovative Leisure, a new company formed by games industry veterans. The agreement will focus on creating and publishing digital games available through digital and mobile platforms.

Team of students spend 48 hours creating video game as part of Global Game Jam

Team members, from left, Julie Mohedano, of Brookfield, Mariah Donner, of Lake Villa, Nicole Werling, of Lake of the Hills, and Jes Schroeder, of Peoria, coordinate their effort Sunday to develop a video game at Bradley University as part of the 48-hour Global Game Jam. The Global Game Jam is a world-wide competition for teams to develop video, board or other types of games.