Video Blips: Phantasy Star Online 2, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, Binary Domain, and more
Phantasy Star Online 2 is a clear indication that the Sega gods deemed us worthy enough again to mindlessly grind on aliens using sword-shaped...
Heyzap scores 4.6M users in two months for mobile game check-ins
Heyzap launched a way for gamers to “check in” to mobile games on Android a couple of months ago and has already reached 4.6...
Xbox and Kinect shine in Microsoft earnings report
The Xbox and Kinect motion controller are again Microsoft’s brightest stars as the company posted strong earnings and 60 percent growth in its entertainment...
Hacker Geohot denies involvement in PlayStation Network attack, blames Sony’s hubris
One potential suspect behind Sony’s massive PlayStation Network security breach was 21-year old George Hotz, AKA Geohot, who recently settled a lawsuit with the...
Sony says hacked PlayStation Network credit card data was encrypted
Sony said yesterday that all credit card information on its hacked PlayStation Network was protected with encryption. As the outage for the online game...
40 percent of Apple game downloads are free titles with in-app purchases
Free-to-play games have become huge on Apple’s App Store in the past 19 months. Almost 40 percent of game downloads are now free titles...
King.com launches its first cross-platform mobile game (exclusive)
King.com grew up in the age of web portals, offering skill-based games for players who liked to play casual tournament games. But this is...
Kixeye re-brands and pivots into hardcore social games with Battle Pirates
Kixeye, once known as Casual Collective, has pivoted in a big way into social games on Facebook for hardcore gamers. That’s a market that...
Surprise: Sony faces class action lawsuit on PlayStation Network breach
Sony hasn’t yet recovered from the PlayStation Network outage, but it has already been hit with a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of an...
Angry Birds hits 140M downloads, poised for growth in China
Rovio‘s Angry Birds mobile game has been downloaded more than 140 million times since its release 16 months ago. The game maker said it...