Deutsche Telekom invests $2.63M in Germany’s Flaregames (exclusive)
Germany’s Flaregames, a mobile game startup headed by Gameforge founder Klaas Kersting, has raised $2.63 million (2 million euros) from Deutsche Telekom’s investment arm....
BigDoor raises $5M for gamification platform
BigDoor, a white label gamification platform maker, has raised $5 million in new funding from the Foundry Group. The platform allows non-game online publishers...
Game designers and Rockefeller Foundation attack poverty with fun
Video games aren’t all about depicting violence. They can change the world for the better too. The Institute for the Future and the Rockefeller Foundation...
League for Gamers takes stand against warning-labels on games (exclusive)
In response to the Electronic Software Association's support of SOPA, Red 5 Studios CEO Mark Kern formed the League for Gamers. Now, the LFG is looking to expand its membership and educate gamers and non-gamers alike about the "warning-label law" H.R. 4204.
Mass Effect 3’s ending: The book vs. the movie
The following article is mostly spoiler free. The controversy surrounding Mass Effect 3’s ending has been a unique event in the gaming world. A...
Porn network Brazzers will sponsor a pro fighting-game team
Porn company Brazzers said it wants to sponsor professional fighting-game players via a Twitch.TV livestream with fighting-game community (FGC) member Long Island Joe. Rob...
Bungie says goodbye with 10 years of Halo stats (infographic)
Bungie Studios is in the process of severing its final ties to the Halo franchise and has shut down the multiplayer stat-tracking on Bungie.net....
Kinect Star Wars fails to live up to its potential (review)
Kinect Star Wars has been in the works for a long time. When Microsoft first demonstrated the Kinect motion-sensing system in June 2010, it...
Israel’s Dragonplay raises $14M for free-to-play mobile social games
Israeli social and mobile game startup Dragonplay has raised $14 million in a first round of funding. The investors are Accel Partners, Entrée Capital, and...
Wii U reportedly launching on November 18 in North America
Nintendo's newest console, the Wii U, will launch in North America on Sunday, November 18th according to Wii U Daily.
The site claims to have obtained an internal email from Japanese retailer Media Land that reportedly outs the system's November 18th release date, with the Japanese launch to follow a week a later. The email contained no info on a European launch.