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Google has hired Noah Falstein, someone with a long history in game development, and given him the title chief game designer. Outside of those few details, we no nothing else. Falstein confirmed to Gamasutra that this is all true, but he couldn't say anything else. "I can confirm that the title... More

Google is full of nerds and dorks, but that's good news for the rest of us. The company's latest Chrome experiment turns any website into a game of Marble Madness. World Wide Maze turns virtually any website into a Super Monkey Ball-like maze that players can then navigate with their smartphone... More

In a Google+ Fireside Hangout on February 18, President Obama stated that video games could be a good way to attract children to computer programming. President Obama said that introducing computer programming in elementary schools makes sense because children nowadays are knowledgeable about the internet... More

Today in 1901, Frank Zamboni, Jr. was born. Zamboni's name would become world famous among hockey fans for the ice resurfacing machines that bear his name. So, go to Google.com , hit play, and you can play an Atari-style game where you're tasked with cleaning up a rink after some mischievous... More

Taiwanese cloud gaming company Ubitus is set to deliver console and MMO titles to Google TV. Any smart TVs or set-top boxes with Google TV can access games from Ubitus. According to Engadget , promo material for the announcement shows Resident Evil 5, Lost Planet 2, and Super Street Fighter IV, but it's... More

The iOS hit with an awesome soundtrack and a strange title, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is available now for Android devices. You can head here to download it for your Android device for $1.99. Just make sure you have at least OS 2.3 in order to play it. [via Joystiq ] More

Microsoft's Surface tablet launched today with built in SmartGlass functionality, and now the app is available for Android devices . Make sure to note the current compatibility pre-requisites, as it does not currently work for all Android devices. SmartGlass is heading to iOS devices as well, but... More

Google has pulled back the curtain on its new gigabit fiber optic internet and television service. First off, Google Fiber is only available in the test location of Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas). Google put out the call to many cities around the U.S. and K.C. won out. The rest of us will just have... More

Electronic Arts, Zynga, and Microsoft have signed on to a brief urging the 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals to find the law, which outlaws gay marriage, unconstitutional. The 9 th Circuit is currently hearing an appeal to an earlier decision (Golinski vs. the U.S. Office of Personal Management), which found... More

Google unveiled its tablet today, running Android OS 4.1 (a.k.a. Jellybean if you insist), and its available for pre-order now . The tablet will be shipping in about 2-3 weeks and will run you $199 for the 8 GB model and $249.99 for the 16 GB model. You can find out more by watching Google's advertisement... More

Either the Internet is eating itself, or it's a clever Starcraft reference. Typing "Zerg rush," into Google creates an army of Zerg-like Google-Os that destroy your precious search results. You can click the little Os to destroy them before they eat away at all of your googling. I feel... More

Google's April Fool's 8-bit map was filled with many Dragon Quest references and images. Square Enix said today it provided the assets for the project. "It was a collaborative effort between Square Enix and Google," a U.S. representative told Game Informer. "Google came up with... More

The ESRB, which has long rated console and PC games for content, has announced plans to begin rating mobile games sometime in 2012. However, these ratings might not matter much, as both Apple and Google are planning to ignore this new ratings system entirely. Apple offered no official comment, but a... More

An Easter egg was discovered today on Google that fans of Star Fox and Internet memes will appreciate. If you type the phrase "do a barrel roll" (without quotes) into the Google search bar, well, just try it and see for yourself. Go ahead, do it. More

Google is strengthen its presence in the mobile market with a $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility (subject to approval.) The deal is expected to be completed by the beginning of next year at the latest, and give Google a boost via Motorola's Android user base. Google says that it will... More

Google is releasing a series of notebooks called Chromebooks, which fall somewhere between a cloud-based notebook and a traditional one. That's the boring part. One of their selling points is how quickly they supposedly book up. As a way of illustrating that speed, Google has a released a series... More

With so much money being made on Facebook games, it's probably no surprise that Google, which just announced its new Google+ social network , has its eyes the social games market. Today, we got confirmation of the company's plans due to some references to "Google+ Games" in the source... More

Google StreetView is a pretty sweet feature that lets you swoop down on a map for a street-level view, and it's come to GTA IV's Liberty City. Some big fans over at gta4.net have stitched together approximately 80,000 screenshots to make this possible, and it's close to covering every nook... More

The program Dog Wars is no longer available for purchase after extensive complaints from animal rights groups. Given the general disgust most folks feel towards the act of dogfighting, it should come as little surprise that the game about pitting dogs against one another has been pulled from the Android... More

What if sending an email was as easy as licking a pretend stamp and placing it on your knee? What if you could reply to a message with a simple hitchhiker thumb? Google has answered these questions in the form of Gmail Motion, the gesture-based email solution. What if you used motion control commands... More