Sega Pass has been hacked.  1.3 million customers had their information compromised because they signed up to play games onlien with other people.  This news comes shortly after the hacking of Sony and Nintendo sites and services.

Many companies and government agencies have been getting hacked.  While the problem isn't isolated to the video game industry, there have been a lot of hacking within the industry.

Do we need to worry about more and more hacking news…

OnLive is a service that allows you to play games on any screen while the game is being run on a server farm and displayed over the internet on any monitor. 

This is a form of cloud computing that allows people to play high end games without having high end gaming hardware.  It will be exciting to see how much better the service will get as the broadband speeds continue to improve.

This type of video game cloud computing will allow consumers to spend more…

PC gaming continues to deliver the best performance, but all of the attention is going to the consoles and mobile gaming platforms.

The biggest reason for this is that hardware companies make more money by creating their own consoles.  Microsoft might make some revenue when you buy your high performance gaming PC, but they make a lot more when someone buys an Xbox.

Another reason we hear more about consoles is because they are a mass market product.  Sure,…

I really enjoy thinking about the future because the technology we get to play with just keeps getting better.

I was listening to a speech by Bill Gates a few years ago and I got excited when he said there was no reason why we had to interact with each other on a flat screen with a keyboard.  He started talking about how we will interact in virtual reality with numerous options for making connections.

Some of this started coming true in the video game arena…