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Several times a week, nearly 23 million people stop what they're doing and tune in to watch "American Idol". "Dancing with the Stars" and "NCIS" come in just under 20

According to a new study by market research firm ComScore, the majority of U.S. Internet users would use the iPad to surf the web (50%), send and read emails (48%)

OK, we've seen Linux and a GameBoy Color emulator running on JavaScript. What's next? The original DOOM, apparently. Alon Zakai has ported DOOM to the browser. You can play

Last week in Anaheim, in amongst the crowd of developers at Microsoft's Build 2011 conference assimilating the news about Windows 8, was a team from a London, U.K.-based company

Zynga added a 600-plus-pages addendum to its IPO filing yesterday and it turns out that Zynga and Facebook are intertwined so tightly that it is hard to tell where one

The stereotypical gamer is male, in his teens or early twenties, devotedly gaming from his parents' basement. The actual make-up of the gaming population, however, is strikingly different. The average

Game developer Valve has released Steam, its social gaming platform, for the Mac. Steam, which launched in 2004, is a social gaming app merged with a game store that allows

There is a question being bandied about by people in the game industry. It effects something you do, or, if you don't, your friend, roommate, wife or fencing opponent does.

Lunch.com, a year-old personal recommendation network that functions somewhat like Yelp, is implementing Facebook's newly launched Open Graph API (application programming interface) in an interesting way: It's doing Facebook "like"

Offering incentives, goals, and prizes to users through game mechanics is hardly new. Most of us have long been accumulating points towards rewards with various frequent flyer plans, for example.