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...
Google Earth now travels the world — and the seven seas
Google Earth is one of Google’s most intriguing projects. It’s a stand-alone program (not a web application) that shows our planet in 3D. But...
Independent Games, Bitmob, and Me
Editor’s note: Obviously, I have my bias. But I really do think that Bitmob promotes the same rough-and-tumble attitude that many indie developers do....
Wii is on track to outsell PlayStation 2, while PS 3 is on par with GameCube sales
Nintendo has gone from worst to first in consecutive console releases, with Sony doing exactly the opposite this generation. A closer look at collective...