Anyone that’s been thinking of getting into video games designed for the web and/or social media sites should definitely read through one of the latest reports from Investment Banking Firm GP Bullhound. Why should you care what an investment firm has to say about video games? Well because these guys are kings of research, and put together a pretty impressive 20-page report explaining why the games that excel online and on social networking sites, do REALLY well. 

The release of the iPad has been a hot-topic for the last little while. Plenty of people have been falling on either side of the fence. You can see it as an over-priced and over-sized iPhone, or you’re in the camp that believes it’s a world-changing device. Either way no one can argue that the platform is doing well for itself. It seems to be attracting the attention of a lot of game developers, especially those that were working on iPhone games in the past.

It seems more and more often the talent at the long-established tech companies are making a move to video game development, specifically with the realm of social games.

PopCap today announced the hiring of one of the tech veterans from Adobe in Frits Habermann. Habermann has spent the last 20 years at Adobe, most recently as the VP of Core Technologies, and now moves to PopCap as their Chief Technical Officer.

Games are great. Social games are even better. But what about a social game with a conscience? Well, that would be just about the bestest thing ever! That’s exactly what the minds over at Armchair Revolutionary are up to. The idea was to encourage people to change the world for the better, through the games that they play. It was brought to reality through the Armchair Revolution, which is a series of three video games associated with three ventures to support innovations in science and technology.