EA Sports chief Peter Moore on upcoming games
Electronic Arts sports game chief Peter Moore held court in downtown San Francisco last Thursday as his division offered the press its first look...
Newly-formed Blade Games raises $4M for cheaper developer tools
Blade Games, the result of last month’s merger between developer tool provider Digini and game outsourcing company Vyk Games, has raised $4 million in...
The empire strikes back: Hulu blocks RSS access for Boxee
Well, that didn’t last long. This morning, Boxee, a company that offers a way to bring online video to your TV, brought back Hulu...
Twitter finally putting search front and center
From the day I signed up about two years ago, I’ve always seen the potential in Twitter. It’s a potential that the company almost...
Emergent racks up $12.5M for game-development software
Emergent Game Technologies, a Calabasas, Calif.-based provider of applications used to develop video games more cost-efficiently, just raised $12.5 million in fifth-round funding to...
Acclaim resets the music game business with Rockfree
Howard Marks is a high-energy guy. He can talk a mile a minute about Asian online game business models, or user-crafted games, and everything...
Amazon sparks controversy over casual games pricing
Amazon.com purchased casual game portal Reflexive back in October. So it came as no surprise when Amazon launched a casual games download service last...
Real Games executive tells how the recession will affect casual games
John Barbour has been the president of Real Games — Real Networks’ gaming division that was set to spin off before the IPO market...
Microsoft rebrands SkyBox to rhyme with “iPhone”?
Microsoft is expected to unveil its mobile cloud sync service known as SkyBox at the Mobile World Congress event in Spain later this month....
Who’s got game? Introducing the GamesBeat 2009 startup competition
Who’s got game? That’s what we’ll be asking during a special competition happening at VentureBeat’s inaugural games conference for the industry’s top players, on March...