The universe of the Starz show Spartacus features bloody gladiatorial combat, making it perfect for an action-oriented game.  Large Animal has developed,  a Spartacus:Vengeance The Game that will promote the upcoming season of the show, which bears the same name. Starz Digital Media will handle the publishing duties. A Spartacus game promoting the previous entry, Gods of more »

There are games on Facebook that want you to build everything from mafia empires to the world’s best baseball team. Vatican Wars asks if you are priest enough to build a congregation of true believers.

No, really.

And you thought that women are shopaholics. A recent study by mobile social network site MocoSpace revealed that, in terms of virtual goods, male social gamers outspend female social gamers nine to one. In fact, not only do male social gamers spend more on virtual goods, but that most of the virtual goods bought in-game were from men.

Microsoft is hoping to give internet users a new reason to favor Bing over other search engines. Brace yourself for the lure of addictive, casual games. If you head over to the Bing website and navigate to the Bing Entertainment section, you’ll see a tab on top just for games. Once you reach that point, well, odds are that’s it for you. Kiss an hour goodbye.

See, Bing has brought out the big guns with this Games section…

The current count looks to be 166 games on sale and each is listed at the same bargain digital basement price. Many of the games retail for $9.99 to $6.99, so you’re getting well more than 50 percent off on pretty much every game in the sale.

Casual games on Facebook have dramatically increased in popularity over the past couple years. It has gotten to the point where you can’t scroll through your news feed without seeing someone’s progress in a game. If Facebook were a console, it would have tens of millions of players. However PopCap believes the honeymoon between Facebook and casual games is coming to an end.

Casual game publisher Alaware Entertainment has announced a sale of several of its games available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

The sale is going on now and, instead of ending on Labor Day (September 6, 2010), it’s actually ending Thursday, September 9, 2010. Thus the “Back-to-School” angle.

Mafia Wars has opened Las Vegas to all you high rollers and now has unveiled a special slate of Vegas-themed items to celebrate.

The talks are (mostly) over and it is now confirmed that Disney is buying Playdom valued at $763.2 million (US).

According to the New York Times, Walt Disney Company will pay $563.2 million and $200 million more later if Playdom “achieves growth thresholds that were not made public.”

As part of the deal, Playdom Chief Executive John Pleasants become a Disney Executive Vice President, reporting to Disney’s Interactive Media Group.

This also coincides with…

img src=”http://admintell.napco.com/ee/images/uploads/gamertell/Jersey_Shore_Facebook_game.jpg” title=”" alt=”Jersey Shore” width=”300″ height=”244″ />Snooki’s world takeover is almost complete. She and her Jersey Shore colleagues are getting their own games, one being an online social adventure and the other an iPhone application. I am not kidding, as much as I wish I were. The games celebrate the second season of MTV’s improbable reality hit, which begins July 29. The game appearing on Facebook and MTV.com features battles between the infamous reality show co-stars using scenes from the show.