Largest Call of Duty DLC collection hits Xbox Live today
Activision Blizzard said today that its largest downloadable content (DLC) in history for a Call of Duty game is hitting Xbox Live today. The company...
Tablet game revenue to hit $3.1B by 2014
The tablet game market is expected to grow to $3.1 billion worldwide, according to a new report from analyst firm Juniper Research. The spending...
Vivox buys Droplet to deliver video chat on mobile
Vivox, a leading provider of voice chat in games, has acquired the video chat firm Droplet. Natick, Mass.-based Vivox plans to drop Droplet’s technology...
Waveform proves you don’t need guns to save the galaxy (review)
Our solar system is being consumed by a singularity and it’s your job to save it — not with bullets, magic spells, or superpowers,...
OMG Stop! Why Zynga is considering $200M purchase of DrawSomething creator OMGPOP
Welcome to the wild world of mobile gaming, where a new king can be crowned in the span of three weeks, and a struggling...
EA server shutdowns another example of why online passes are a bad idea (editorial)
Video game publisher Electronic Arts recently announced it is pulling the plug on servers for nearly a dozen games whose player base has shrunk....
OnLive launches L.A. Noire for Android tablets
Cloud gaming service OnLive is launching Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire on Android tablets today. One game may not seem like a big deal. But the...
Starhawk preview: Fast-action kill fest arrives on May 8
Starhawk, Sony’s new third-person sci-fi shooter game that debuts on May 8, is a frenetic action game that requires you to be a good...
Halfbrick Studios acquires Onan Games for quick cross-platform ports
Australia’s Halfbrick Studios, maker of the popular Fruit Ninja mobile game, has acquired Onan Games so that it can publish titles across platforms more...
Neil Young’s path to the multibillion-dollar mobile social game market (interview)
Neil Young sold his San Francisco startup Ngmoco to Japan’s DeNA for $403 million in the fall of 2010. And that was just the...