In Real Life

April Fools! All These Announcements Are Fake — But Which Ones Are Funny?

Alright, it may be a Monday, but it’s still April Fools’ Day over here, a very special day in video gaming. Many related companies, studios and merchants are pulling hoaxes and stunts, and making gag announcements. So let’s round up as many as we can here!


February 24, 2012
Mobile

Fairway Solitaire Is An iPhone Solitaire Game You Should Play

When you write about video games for a living, you get so many emails about how great certain new video games are that they can’t possibly all be true. The people who send these emails are often being paid to tell me how awesome game x or y is. That’s what we call unreliable sourcing.


April 12, 2011
Nintendo

Mystery Case Files Coming To The Wii, Beg To Be Solved

The Mystery Case Files from Big Fish Games are coming to the Nintendo Wii in the form of Mystery Case Files: Dust to Dust on June 27, says Nintendo.


September 3, 2009
News

Enter Drawn: The Painted Tower

Big Fish Games presents Drawn: The Painted Tower, a simply gorgeous PC puzzle adventure game available for digital download this Friday.


February 4, 2009
In Real Life

Escapism In The Time Of Layoffs

The Wall Street Journal has a nice little article up about laid off employees getting into games and social media networks as a way to escape the grim reality that they’re out of a job.