After three pivots, Playhaven finds a niche in monetizing mobile apps
Playhaven started life as a gamer’s social network. Then it morphed into making communities for mobile games. Now, after its third pivot, the company...
PAX Prime 2011: Citizen Skywatch seeks recruits with fantastic immersion
Showing off a game usually follows an established procedure: Surround the curious with enthusiastic PR folk, jam in enough TVs blaring the latest trailer...
News Blips: No more Shepard after Mass Effect 3, Portal 2 favored on PC, no Minecraft on Steam, and more
Saying goodbye to a character you've known for years always hurts. Don't cry, for Commander Shepard lives on…in your heart. Seriously, he gets a...
Video Blips: Firefall, SOL: Exodus, Crimson Alliance, and more
I wonder if mankind can successfully exist in the future without suddenly unearthing an evil race of insectoids. It seems to happen quite frequently....
Hackers steal 21,000 passwords from Star Wars game fan site
A Star Wars Galaxies fan site got hacked today and thieves stole 21,000 email addresses and 23,000 passwords. And judging from an analysis of...
Zynga lines up its next social game: Adventure World
Zynga just revealed a teaser for its next big social game, an Indiana Jones-inspired creation called Adventure World. The video trailer on the new...
OnLive to power on-demand game demos at game fan site GameSpot
Video game news site GameSpot will start offering visitors the ability to instantly test games online with live game demos. The free demos will...
Woozworld raises $6M to take tween virtual world into mobile
Woozworld, maker of a user-generated virtual world for kids ages 9 to 14, has raised $6 million. The company will use the money to...
Let me survive: Will anyone make a real zombie game?
I'm well aware that you shouldn't get all worked up over trailers (especially teasers), but when I saw the teaser for Dead Island, I was...
News Blips: The stakes of Mass Effect 3, same-sex marriage in Skyrim, no Porsche in Forza 4, and more
Mass Effect protagonist Commander Shepard has a penchant for dickery. If he's got no qualms punching a reporter in the jaw, he'd probably wouldn't...