Articles written by Libe Goad

Texas native Libe Goad resides in New York City and has spent the past decade covering technology and video games for publications including Blender, PC Magazine, Bust, Seventeen and Sync.

Libe is currently the Editor-in-Chief of AOL's award-winning Games.com group, covering the growing social and casual games industry. Previously, she reported on consumer technology news for PC Magazine and other Ziff Davis properties and was the Editor-at-Large for gaming enthusiast site HappyPuppy.com. In 1999, Goad founded the one of the first women-targeted gaming/technology websites, GameGal.com.

A semi-regular TV talking head on CNBC, Bloomberg News, ABC, CBS, NBC and others, Libe has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Games journalists by Next-Generation, and has served as a judge for Spike TV's VGA awards, the E3 Game Critics Awards, and Independent Games Festival Awards.

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Trendspotting: Why hidden object games are hot on Facebook

Trendspotting: Why hidden object games are hot on Facebook

It's funny to think that one of the most popular games for adult women (ages 35 and up) is a derivative of the classic game I Spy. The game ...
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Fact: Sims Social characters have sex 680K times a day

Fact: Sims Social characters have sex 680K times a day

Sims, the virtual people who star in The Sims Social on Facebook, are busy... getting busy. A new infographic released by publisher EA shows ...
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Caesars Casino: A Vegas Strip staple expands to Facebook

Caesars Casino: A Vegas Strip staple expands to Facebook

Instead of tripping to Vegas to hit the casinos, you can now visit those same smokey temples of vice... on Facebook. Caesars is the latest to ...
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SOPA and games: Firefall maker speaks out on why everyone should boycott E3

SOPA and games: Firefall maker speaks out on why everyone should boycott E3

Sites such as Wikipedia, reddit and Boing Boing have gone dark today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, and Google has also joined in by ...
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Kick old Facebook games to the curb ... for good

Kick old Facebook games to the curb ... for good

We're six days into 2012, and if you haven't picked a resolution yet, how about this one? Give old Facebook games you're not playing anymore ...
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