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...
IAC’s Rebel Entertainment comes out swinging with Dungeon Rampage social game
Rebel Entertainment is coming out of stealth today as a new game publisher with a popular browser-based dungeon-crawling game on Facebook. Burbank, Calif.-based Rebel,...
YoYo Games launches a series of Chrome games with the flip of a switch (exclusive)
YoYo Games is launching seven new games on the Google Chrome Web Store today. It certainly hopes to sell a lot of them, but...
Zynga’s big Unleashed event strikes out with investors
Investors are a skeptical lot. They showed that today after Zynga debuted a bunch of new games and services for the next generation of...
Zynga confirms that FarmVille 2 is in the works
Zynga closed its Unleashed event today in San Francisco with a hint of one of its big games to come: FarmVille 2. Zynga chief...
Zynga rolls out new games for casino, arcade, and mobile — are they clones?
Zynga announced several new games at its Unleashed event today in San Francisco. These games aren’t likely to do much for the company’s reputation...