Q&A with PlayFirst’s John Welch on making game consoles obsolete and making gamers out of everyone
PlayFirst co-found and CEO John Welch has done what many have tried, and few have succeeded. He’s managed to launch a company built around...
Q&A with Sony Online Entertainment’s John Smedley on making online games
John Smedley grew up playing the “Dungeons & Dragons” fantasy-role playing board game during lunch. Today he’s president of Sony Online Entertainment. Smedley was...
Q&A with Kareem Ettouney on Sony’s great hope: LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation 3
NEW YORK CITY—Sony is pulling out the stops to celebrate the launch of a critical game, LittleBigPlanet, from developer Media Molecule. In the game,...
Austin game event: Lively by Google could be expanded to include games
The Austin Game Developers Conference featured one of the first official public dissections of the Lively by Google virtual world (or virtual room), and...
Austin game event: Sun Microsystems tailors its services for online games
Sun Microsystems is at the Austin Game Developers Conference this week, pitching developers on its latest R&D effort, Project Darkstar – an open-source server...
Austin game event: Online game pioneer spells out the business of online games
Here’s a debut freelance post by Austin game writer N. Evan Van Zelfden, who writes about video game and technology businesses for numerous magazines...
Q&A: EA’s Ben Bell on making The Sims 3
With over 100 million copies sold across the globe, The Sims is more than a game franchise for Electronic Arts. It’s an entire division,...
Facebook’s virtual economy may be making up to $100 million this year
[Editor’s note: We’ve been tracking the growth of games on social networks. Here’s the latest look at how much Facebook and third party game...
More video game publishers embrace Comic-Con show
SAN DIEGO, CA— The Comic-Con show is on the rise, with so many game companies showing up there to unveil new games that it...
Gaming market company PlaySpan buys gaming-goods purchase company PayByCash
PlaySpan offers an application that video game players can download and use to trade, buy or sell virtual goods and other products. It has...