Mochi Media sets up $10M fund to invest in indie games
Mochi Media and its parent company Shanda Games are announcing today a $10 million fund that will invest in promising Flash and social game...
Unity Technologies’ browser-based 3D engine supports Android, iPad and PS 3
Unity Technologies has been disrupting big budget 3D games with its light 3D game technology. The company’s engine lets game developers create a 3D...
Mochi Media to socialize web-based Flash games
Mochi Media, which helps indie game creators monetize Flash games, is launching a platform today that makes it easy for Flash game developers to...
The making and unmaking of Infinity Ward
The implosion of Infinity Ward, one of the best videogame studios ever founded, is the latest chapter in a long saga intertwined with the...
Aurora Feint generates 5M iPhone game downloads with free game promo
Getting noticed on the iPhone is the toughest task for iPhone game makers. As a result, it hasn’t been as easy to make money...
Free Realms hits 9M players, closing in on World of Warcraft
It’s time for World of Warcraft to start looking over its shoulder. Free Realms, the free-to-play online game from Sony Online Entertainment, has surpassed...
Get ready for some real news at GamesBeat@GDC
We’ve been busy keeping our heads down pulling together our program for GamesBeat@GDC, our game conference next Wednesday, March 10, inside the Game Developers...
Crowdstar launches rapid expansion to gain ground in Facebook games
Crowdstar came out of nowhere last fall to become one of the biggest game publishers on Facebook. Now it plans on holding onto that...
Gravity Bear launches 3-D combat Battle Punks game on Facebook
The next-generation Facebook games will arrive one of these days. Gravity Bear, a new social game startup run by game veteran Phil Shenk, is...
Lawsuit details: Activision bought Infinity Ward for $5M, went on to generate $3 billion from its games
Activision got the bargain of the century in 2002 when it paid a total of $5 million to buy Infinity Ward, a cash-strapped game...