FanDuel Turns Premium Fantasy Sports Social — And It’s Legal

The people that brought you HubDub, the prediction site that effectively turns news content into a game, have had a new idea. FanDuel is a premium, paid-for game focused on fantasy sports. Running in private beta for the last month, the game opens up today concentrating on baseball and NFL to begin with.

Although the competitive [...]

Scribblenauts, As Hilariously Explained By The ESRB [Nintendo DS]

5TH Cell’s Scribblenauts is an amazing piece of E3 award-winning game design, letting the player summon almost anything they can think to write on the Nintendo DS touchscreen. Despite being rated “Everyone 10+” the game features some potentially objectionable content. Perhaps most objectionable are the things one can do in Scribblenauts when babies, steak and [...]

MG Has A Chrome Attack

Video Game – E3 2009 – Attack of the Show
After Google dropped its Chrome OS bomb yesterday, the news that Google is working on a new operating system generated a media frenzy. Our own MG Siegler covered the news from all angles, and did a live interview on Attack of The Show (embedded above). [...]

I Am Stunningly Uninterested In Diller And Malone’s Opinion Of Twitter

The Wall Street Journal’s Julia Angwin, reporting from the prestigious Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference for the media and business elite, says “Sun Valley: Diller and Malone Pessimistic on Twitter.”
She adds “Diller was pessimistic about Twitter’s prospects for making money,” and:
Malone said he didn’t think that an advertising model made sense on Twitter, [...]