Ex-Sims chief Rod Humble gets his third life at Jam City
Jam City (previously known as SGN) has hired Rod Humble, the ex-CEO of Second Life developer Linden Lab and former head of The Sims...
Super Mario Bros. speedrun record broken by tenths of a second
You might be good at some things, but you’ll never be as good at them as this guy is at beating Super Mario Bros....
‘The Walking Dead’ is getting mobile game from the Game of Thrones: Ascent studio
The long-running comic series The Walking Dead is getting yet another game to go with its television spinoffs and a number of active games on...
Skillz claims adding esports to mobile games boosts revenue
Competitive gaming isn’t just for the most passionate gamers. Skillz is a company that adds esports features such as tournaments and rankings to mobile...
Gree International buys mobile role-playing game Dragon Soul
Gree said today that it has acquired the Dragon Soul mobile game as part of an expansion into mobile role-playing games. The announcement was made...
Pop ’til you drop with Wooga’s Bubble Island 2: World Tour
Wooga likes to handcraft its mobile games. So it’s a relatively rare event when it launches a new one. Today the Berlin-based company is...
Universal Pictures gets rights to make Gears of War film
Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to make a movie based on Gears of War. Rod Fergusson, head of Gears of War developer The Coalition,...
Paper Mario: Color Splash is another delightful trip into a bizarre crafty world
Paper Mario Color Splash feels more like walking through a board game or a diorama than like playing a video game on Nintendo’s Wii...
Ex-Runescape devs announce Lightseekers, an ambitious-but-risky take on Skylanders (update)
Former designer who worked on the popular Runescape game have created a new startup PlayFusion and a new game Lightseekers that it hopes will represent...
Newzoo: Mobile games will make 82% of global app revenues this year
The global mobile app market will generate $44.8 billion in gross revenues in 2016, and 82 percent of that comes from mobile games, according...