Social game maker Tiny Speck hires Japan’s famous game designer Keita Takahashi
Tiny Speck, a social game startup that has been making a title called Glitch, has scored a coup with the hiring of Keita Takahashi,...
Zynga’s 15th acquisition in 13 months: Toronto’s Five Mobile
Zynga has acquired the assets of Five Mobile, a Toronto-based developer of mobile apps. The new team will be known as Zynga Toronto and...
80 of gaming’s brightest minds share their secrets next week
We have 80 (updated) of the gaming industry’s best and brightest lined up for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. We’re grateful that so many...
EA’s next mobile lineup features multi-platform multiplayer mayhem (video)
The next version of Electronic Arts’ mobile Scrabble game will let players compete against each other across multiple devices and platforms — at the...
News Blips: Deus Ex lawsuit, Hideo Kojima on L.A. Noire face tech, Wii U’s online presence, and more
Lawsuits come and go, but this one holds special significance: I can finally joke that Square Enix's neural net got broken by rebellious hackers. Wait,...
Video Blips: Soul Calibur 5, The Secret World, Dead Block, and more
At this point, I'm tempted to write off every Japanese development studio as the epitome of grace and humility — a status certainly better...
Tomb Raider wants to take you to a dark place
I thought I had turned my back on Lara Croft. Then she gored herself in the opening sequence of Crystal Dynamics’ new Tomb Raider...
Don’t cry about the likes of Farmville: We asked for pop gaming!
A phenomenon is sweeping the video-game realm. I've avoided it so far — mostly because I want to pretend like it doesn't exist —...
The Big V: The great games market split
We are entering a world where the games market is fundamentally splitting in two, like the media market of a decade ago. Back then...
Tapjoy raises $30M for mobile app marketing business
Tapjoy has raised $30 million in a new round of funding for its app marketing and monetization business. The company raised the money in...