Game pioneer Trip Hawkins was forming a “rebel alliance” among indie game developers (exclusive)
Trip Hawkins, who resigned on Sunday as chief executive of mobile and social game maker Digital Chocolate, was trying to form an alliance dubbed...
Kixeye expands to mobile games, creates Australian studio
Kixeye has been one of a handful of large game developers that has been so successful on Facebook that it has never expanded beyond...
Author settles copyright infringement suit against Ubisoft over Assassin’s Creed story
Ubisoft has settled a copyright infringement case with author John Beiswenger, who claimed that big parts of the Assassin’s Creed video game story were...
Microsoft says it has sold 67M Xbox 360s, 19M Kinects, and generated $56B in game revenues
Microsoft said today that it has generated more than $56 billion at retail from its game business, and it has sold 67 million Xbox...
Leisure Suit Larry creator wants “infringing” Kickstarter campaign taken down (exclusive)
Leisure Suit Larry creators Al Lowe and Paul Trowe say they plan to sue WiseCrack Games today to shut down their $500,000 Kickstarter crowdfunding project because it infringes on their copyright and misrepresent's Lowe's participation in the project.
Artificial Muscle’s touch sensors can deepen the bass in headphones (exclusive)
Haptic feedback, or touch vibration sensors, have been built into game controllers for years. But now they’re also being used to improve the quality...
Badgeville raises $25M to break out from the pack in gamification
Buzzword or not, gamification, or the use of game-like rewards to engage customers and employees, is getting real. Badgeville, the creator of a popular...
Badgeville’s Kris Duggan: Six frameworks can gamify employee and customer engagement (interview)
Brands have embraced “gamification,” or using game-like behavior in non-game applications, as a way to engage their audiences. That is why gamification vendor Badgeville...
Struggling publisher THQ names game veteran Jason Rubin as president
Jason Rubin, the co-founder of famous game developer Naughty Dog, has been named the president of struggling video game publisher THQ. Rubin will report...
Gaming pioneer Trip Hawkins resigns from Digital Chocolate
Trip Hawkins, a pioneer of video games, has resigned from Digital Chocolate, the mobile and social game company that he founded.