Meet the judges for our GamesBeat 2012 ‘Who’s Got Game’ game-startup competition
We’d like to formally introduce our judges for the Who’s Got Game contest for the industry’s best game startup. They include: Ann Burkett is...
Console game studio Radical Entertainment shuts its doors
Radical Entertainment, a 20-year-old game studio that recently made the Prototype 2 console game for Activision Publishing, has shut down. Audio designer Rob Bridgett,...
Lara Croft will invade your Chrome web browser this fall
Square Enix plans to launch its console-quality game Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on the Google Chrome web browser this fall.
Nintendo hires a networking chief to shore up a weak spot
Nintendo of America has hired Duncan Orrell-Jones as its new senior vice president of network business, a job that the company sorely needed to...
Heyzap launches a way for developers to reach its mobile game network users
Heyzap, a startup with a mobile social gaming network, is announcing today a way for mobile game developers to reach its network of millions...
How we voted in the Game Critics Awards
The Game Critics Awards is a group of a few dozen leading game publications that votes each year on the best games at the...
New institute gets $10M to gamify education for kids
The game industry and nonprofits are teaming up to create a video game design lab that will do research on engaging students and measuring...
Two-thirds of gamers got new video games in the last three months
Video game sales at retail stores have been sinking this year. But 67 percent of all gamers have reported buying at least one game...
Pocket Gems launches All Talk voice-based mobile game
With hundreds of thousands of mobile games available on smartphones, innovating isn’t that easy. But Pocket Gems hopes to stand out from the crowd...
Pamela Anderson takes on Zynga with BamPoker game
Zynga has the biggest online poker game in the world, but actress Pamela Anderson has the biggest…well, a bigger name. So she is entering...