Weaker Q2 tech earnings could make investors jittery
Earnings season starts this week for tech companies, and no one is expecting outstanding second-quarter results. If the reports turn out to be weaker...
Leisure Suit Larry publisher trades up to a new developer (exclusive)
Leisure Suit Larry is always hoping to get lucky, and maybe that will happen with a new developer. Replay Games has decided to switch...
Teen gamer developers swarm Roblox’s hackathon conference
Roblox has become a testing ground where kids and teens build their own video games and let others play them. The virtual world has...
Bart Decrem says mobile games will spawn a new generation of Disney characters (interview)
Bart Decrem wants Disney's next big characters to emerge from mobile games.
Zynga’s David Ko: Crossing over into mobile is the path to a billion gamers (interview)
Mark Pincus wants Zynga to reach a billion players. Facebook has been good to Zynga over the past five years, but the social network...
Warner Bros. making web video series out of Hawken mech-shooter game
Upcoming PC game Hawken joins the ranks of mech series Robotech and Gundam with a web program.
The DeanBeat: 10 takeaways about game investments from GamesBeat 2012
We examined many investment issues at GamesBeat 2012. This week's DeanBeat distills them to the 10 most important.
Xbox dominates console numbers, but video game store sales take a 29 percent dive in June
Sales of software and hardware continue to take a beating, down 29 percent, as the industry adjusts to how people consume and play games.
Xbox co-creator recruits arcade-game “dream team” to make iPad and iPhone games (interview)
Seamus Blackley, president of Innovative Leisure and co-creator of the Xbox, has assembled a "dream team" of old Atari game designers and assigned them to work with young programmers to develop new arcade-like games for Apple iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches.