Go huntin’ for deer with your smartphone
Glu Mobile has acquired the Deer Hunter brand from Atari. This means that, sometime soon, you’ll be able to hunt deer on just about...
Pokemon Conquest gets a Summer release in US (gallery)
While the Pokémon franchise has countless spin-offs and iterations, this is by far the most risky and intriguing.
Games journalism: I’m suffering from review-writing fatigue
Unlike most little boys, becoming a policeman or firefighter wasn’t even on my radar. As a small child, I dreamed of reviewing games as...
Game publisher Electronic Arts is voted the “Worst Company in America”
Video game publisher Electronic Arts has a new feather in its cap: It has won The Consumerist’s Worst Company in America award. The tournament...
Draw Something hits mobile game record as it passes 50M downloads
Draw Something, the Pictionary-style app that Zynga acquired with its $180 million purchase of OMGPOP, has surpassed 50 million downloads. In just 50 days,...
Harebrained Schemes needs your help to resurrect Shadowrun
Developer Harebrained Schemes hopes to bring back the RPG classic Shadowrun in the form of Shadowrun Returns for tablets and PC. Of course they...
DraftDay raises $875K round for daily fantasy sports web site
Fantasy sports leagues require a big investment of time. You pick your fantasy team and watch your results unfold over the course of a...
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...