WowWee shows off its latest App Gear toys that interact with downloaded apps
Toys and electronics are mixing more than ever these days. That’s why toy robot maker WowWee has created a new line of collectible toys,...
HTML5 cross-platform game company Moblyng shuts down (exclusive)
Moblyng was ahead of its time in making cross-platform HTML5 games for mobile devices. Too far ahead, it seems, as the company has shut...
DeanBeat: Game companies raised a record-breaking $1.54B in 2011
Game fundings destroyed the record book for fundings this year as 145 companies raised more than $1.540 billion in 2011, not counting initial public...
Epic’s Infinity Blade series has sold more than $30M on iOS
Epic Games said today that its Infinity Blade series of iOS games has sold more than $30 million to date. That suggests that console-quality...
Zynga launches Scramble With Friends for iPhone
Some of the most popular mobile games are simple ones. With that in mind, Zynga is launching Scramble With Friends on the iPhone and...
For blazing fast wireless internet, Broadcom announces its first 5G WiFi chips
Broadcom is announcing today its first WiFi chips that will allow wireless to surf the web at a speed of 1.3 gigabits per second....
Qualcomm to launch Snapdragon Game Command for managing Android games
Qualcomm said today that it will launch its Snapdragon GameCommand app on the Android Market on Jan. 10 at the beginning of the Consumer Electronics...
Zynga launches Hidden Chronicles game in an untapped treasure-hunting genre
Your Uncle Geoffrey has been killed, and the secret lies in the elegant estate where he lived. Your job is to uncover the secrets...
Gaikai thriving with streaming game demo deals from Best Buy and others (exclusive)
Gaikai, the game streaming company, has kept a low profile recently, but a quick survey of the web shows that the company has scored...
Microsoft Flight takes flying games into new skies
In the age of blockbuster games, flight simulators have fallen by the wayside. They had their share of hardcore fans, but catering to them drove the games into smaller and smaller niches until most game publishers decided it was no longer worth the effort