U.K.’s Frontier Developments rises 21% in first day on London’s AIM stock market
Frontier, the creator of Elite: Dangerous, is valued at $59 million in its first day of trading.
Developer remakes Super Mario Bros. for Atari 2600
The developer calls the game Princess Rescue. It is available as a cartridge that is fully playable on the Atari 2600 system.
Police Quest creator is back with spiritual successor Precinct (and it’s on Kickstarter, too)
Developer Jim Walls, who created the Police Quest series, announced that his Jim Walls Reloaded studio is working on a spiritual successor called Precinct that is due out for PC and Mac in 2014. To fund Precinct, Walls posted the project to crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The developer is looking for $500,000.
Report: Apple considering $300M purchase of first-gen Microsoft Kinect gesture-sensor provider
An Apple delegation reportedly visited PrimeSense's Tel Aviv headquarters recently, as top engineers checked out the company's facilities and technology. Apple already has three research and development centers in Israel.
GamesAnalytics secures $1.3 million in latest series of funding
The predictive-analysis company plans to raise a total of $3 million in this funding round.
Flyro is first game from ex-Valve developers at Brute Farce (exclusive)
Former Valve designer releases first mobile game.
Monetization startup Appnext expands its social game discovery network to mobile
It's a crowded mobile monetization market, but Appnext is barging into it.
Former Nexon America chief joins inspiring industrial design firm Daylight (exclusive)
Daniel Kim joins Daylight, a product design team that creates cool products and does nonprofit work, too.
GDC poll: Only 13% of European developers working on PlayStation 4 games
According to a GDC Europe survey, European developers are embracing mobile and PC/Mac platforms at higher rates than their North American rivals.
At 1-year anniversary, Korea’s Kakao mobile game platform hits 30M users and 400M game downloads
The network is on a tear, proving that mobile games can be blockbusters.