Categories Posted inin Business Vivendi may shake down Activision for a special $3B dividend Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 22, 2013 2 min Vivendi would get $2 billion and would leave Activision with $1 billion in cash. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business How movie makers, game makers are using pre-visualization to get funded Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 22, 2013 3 min If you can see it, you'll know if you like it or not. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Activision releasing new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles side-scrolling brawler in October Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 22, 2013 1 min The game is based on the new Nickelodeon show. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business BlackBerry attempts to boost game support with Unity partnership Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 22, 2013 2 min Unity developers can now easily release their games on the BlackBerry World store. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Kinect-like Leap Motion 3D camera launches with over 75 applications Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 22, 2013 2 min Leap Motion enables precise gestural control through 10-finger tracking for only $80. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Saints Row IV almost ended with a Bollywood dance number Posted byby GamesBeat July 21, 2013 1 min The ending of Saints Row IV is going to be very different from what developer Volition originally envisioned. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Ouya success Towerfall coming to PC — online multiplayer not likely Posted byby GamesBeat July 20, 2013 3 min As Towerfall's audience continues to grow, developer Matt Thorson is looking to expand the game to a new platform and bigger community. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business How curiosity keeps Pong creator Al Alcorn on the innovation path (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 20, 2013 9 min Al Alcorn talks about making games and gadgets in Silicon Valley. Continue Reading 9 min
Categories Posted inin Business Japan's KLab raises $9.3M for mobile games Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 19, 2013 1 min Japan's mobile games market is hot and the funding reinforces that. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Going indie: Why 5 devs left their day jobs for creative independence (part two) Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes July 19, 2013 11 min In the last part of our indie developer interviews, we talk to Casey Carlin, who used to work at Arc System Works, and Kent Hudson, who used to work at 2K Games and LucasArts. Continue Reading 11 min