Finland’s Supercell raises $12M for hardcore real-time social games
Finnish game developer Supercell has raised $12 million in funding for its hardcore real-time social gaming business. The investment shows the increasing appetite for...
Updated: How many ways can THQ’s Space Marine game rip off Gears of War?
The second I looked at THQ‘s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine video game, I figured I had seen it before. The sci-fi game may be...
TinyCo spreads the wealth with $5M fund for mobile game developers
TinyCo raised $18 million in February to expand its mobile game business on the iPhone. Now it is spreading the wealth around by launching...
News Blips: EA learned from failures, Take-Two takeover target rumors, reinventing handhelds, and more
I don't need EA to tell me to fail well. I've got enough burn marks on my fingers from my battles with the stove...
Video Blips: Infamous 2, Ghost Recon Online, Anarchy Reigns, and more
It's the monster you never see that becomes the most memorable monster of all. Or, in the case of Infamous 2, it's the amount of...
7 questions with Alice: Madness Returns Executive Producer R.J. Berg
On June 14, Alice will embark on an adventure back down the rabbit hole of madness. While the original entry, American McGee's Alice, may...
Social game leader Zynga poised to file for an IPO?
Zynga, the dominant maker of social games on Facebook, is reportedly poised to file for its initial public offering, according to AllThingsD. Citing unnamed...
Just how frustrated are PlayStation Network users over downtime?
Sony brought its online gaming network, the PlayStation Network (PSN), offline today — though this time it was just for some scheduled maintenance. But...
Take-Two Interactive beats forecasts on momentum of past hits
Take-Two Interactive reported a loss for the seasonally slow fourth fiscal quarter, but the company beat expectations for both revenues and profits thanks to...
Announcing first speakers at GamesBeat 2011 conference on mobile games
Drum roll please. The first announced speakers at our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference include Steve Perlman, chief executive of games-on-demand firm OnLive; Bart...