Kinko's spoof bites back at 'advergame' genre
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Persuasive Games of Atlanta is one of many companies that create online games. Sometimes it does this for name-brand clients, including Cold Stone Creamery and Chrysler. Earlier this year, however, Persuasive Games released a game about the copy-shop chain Kinko's that was rather different.
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By Greg Connors  There's more to the world of online video than catching Michael Richards dropping verbal bombs in a comedy club.
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From ringtones to bloglets to short-blast video games, today's amusements comes in bite-size morsels. A tasty Wired magazine report on instant entertainment.
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As games steal eyeballs from movies and television, they are becoming dotted with product placements.
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If you're tired of watching Mitt and Mike, Hillary and Rudy, and Colbert and Coulter limit their swipes to words, pick one and go for it in the new video game "DC Smackdown."
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Artificial Life, a brazen Hong King Company has invented a new (and I use the next term very loosely) game. For those men without a girl, and who have exhausted every other method of finding companionship, comes the Virtual Girlfriend.
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If you're tired of watching Mitt and Mike, Hilary and Rudy, and Colbert and Coulter limit their swipes to words, pick one and go for it in the new video game "DC Smackdown."
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Two shows at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., offer a playground for games with genres.
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Screensaver offers to "spam the spammers," but not everyone is pleased with its message.
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Matthew Kleinâs bright swindling-scam comedy is set in the world of the Internet nouveau-riche.
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Take the Sims to the big city, let them mix with punkers, ravers and slackers, and The Urbz delivers an amusing, yet frustrating experience. By Lore SjÃ¶berg.
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As video games take on an ever slicker, more cinematic feel, developers are increasingly turning to cartoon actors, movie-trailer announcers and even film stars to read the lines.
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Advertising agencies have turned to spoofing their own industry to attract viewers long enough to deliver a new message.
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Games with a political and social agenda have provided a novel take on world events.
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Here are a couple of terrific games, designed and executed to give you some first-rate entertainment -- assuming you're smart enough to recognize brilliance this time.
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A slip of the tongue during Tuesday night&#39;s vice presidential debate sent viewers to a billionaire&#39;s anti-Bush site in a cyberspoof that rocked the Web.
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Elliot Greenebaum's hardheaded comedy has the guardedly facetious tone of a fake documentary.