-[HMG]- Hive Minds Gaming -[HMG]-

Nicky Haik was stuck at home sick for a week when he was 13. Out of boredom, he started playing WoW. Over the next five years, he spent somewhere between 175 and 200 solid days (4,000+ hours), playing the game. At 18 he finally decided it was time to quit, and did so earlier this month in extraordinary fashion....

Did you know that there are interactive games on YouTube? Here are five of the best....

Playdom, a startup who has competed with Zynga in the online social gaming market, is being acquired by The Walt Disney Co. The acquisition will let Disney create new games based on its vault of characters from "Toy Story" to the comic book superheroes from Marvel. Will social games become a new promotional vehicle for blockbuster films?...

Attention Second Lifers: Are you afraid, even in your fantasy worlds, of new experiences? Your avatar might be a candidate, then, for a psychotropic drug called, Virta-Flaneurazine, designed to treat Wanderlust Deficit Disorder — in other words, Internet addiction....

It's one thing to say "hey, world, I could make a kick ass video game" and quite another to actually go and make the thing. The web-based Stencyl is one of many companies who attempts to make that easier for the amateur developer, and the company recently told us about a slew of improvements coming to Stencyl, including support for Flash....

Gameplay clichés--the missions, the arms dealers, the power-ups, are among the signs that video games, as an art form, have completely stalled. Storylines & character development rarely go beyond rough sketches. All of these draw low expectations for Battlestar Galactica Online if developers are faithful to the original SyFy series....

NASA has opened the moon to gamers with an online single and multiplayer game called Moonbase Alpha that lets players battle the elements and run a 3D outer space outpost....

Pete is traveling within his colorful subconsciousness. The art, music and story here are simply amazing....