The Social Gaming Surprise: 'FarmVille' Is Blowing 'GTA' Away
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Every month, roughly 100 million people log into Facebook to tend their virtual farms in 'FarmVille,' or to wage virtual war against their mob enemies in 'Mafia Wars.' To put things in perspective, those numbers roughly equal the populations of France and Canada combined. Anyone who tells you that social gaming is a flash in the pan is wrong... dead wrong. So now, the video game industry ...
This year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) was the biggest yet, with developers, journalists, and luminaries coming from around the world to gather for a week in San Francisco. And there were plenty of highlights, ranging from futurist Ray Kurzweil's keynote on the next 20 years of gaming to excellent sessions from a huge number of the gaming world's brightest stars. Here were some of the big ...








