Game Closure launches HTML5-based cross-platform game technology
Game Closure is showing off its HTML5-based cross-platform multiplayer gaming technology at the Google I/O conference today. The company is using its own Popstar...
Funzio raises $20M for social and mobile games
Funzio, a developer of social and mobile games such as Facebook’s Crime City, said it has raised $20 million in a first round of...
Live Gamer and Skrill partner to help online games make money worldwide
Live Gamer has partnered with payment provider Skrill to provide worldwide monetization options for online game publishers. The combined offering makes it easier for...
Reboot the game: I don’t want to save the world
I don’t want to be the chosen one. I don’t want to get the girl. I don’t want to make kingdoms rise and fall...
Humor Me Community Prompt: The collected works
Last month, I tasked the Bitmob community with letting out its inner comedian, and the response was fairly huge. The submissions provided a nice...
Blizzard isn’t committing to Diablo III launch this year, WoW subscribers slip
Blizzard Entertainment is still working hard on Diablo III, one of its premiere PC games coming this year, but the company isn’t sure it...
Activision Blizzard announces new Call of Duty online game for China
Like clockwork, Activision Blizzard announced a new Call of Duty game. But this one is going to be very different. The company said in...
Activision Blizzard beats revenue estimates thanks to strong Black Ops sales
Activision Blizzard, the biggest independent publisher of video games, reported financial results today that beat analysts’ expectations for its first fiscal quarter. The company...
Bad information spreading on PlayStation Network’s return date: nothing new, folks
There was some unfortunate wording in a Bloomberg news report on Sunday about Sony’s PlayStation Network, leading many publications to report that the network...
Zynga acquires 13th new company — er, hires two guys
Social game maker Zynga announced today that it has hired two new employees who created the cocos2d iPhone open source project. The new employees...