Gaikai expanding its streaming demo service to Game retail website
Gaikai, the cloud based gaming service, today announced that it will be streaming game demos directly to online customers of European retailer Game. In...
Pocket Gems grows fast with its “mobile first” game business
Pocket Gems was one of the early “mobile first” game companies that did nothing but make games for mobile devices. The company was founded...
The DeanBeat: GamesBeat 2012 in July will focus on disruption, change, and innovation
We’ve unveiled our first speakers and other details for our fourth annual game conference, GamesBeat 2012. Our roster of speakers includes Will Wright, creator...
Forget the Nokia — play Snake on the sides of buildings
An imaginative projection project in Sydney, Australia, is taking the classic game Snake and making it into an large scale interactive urban experience. The...
Aeria Games joins the mobile-gaming fray
Aeria Games, one of the players in the free-to-play online game market, is moving into mobile games with the announcement today of its Aeria...
DEMO Asia: 3 startups find new ways to gamify life
A version of this story originally appeared on SGEntrepreneurs and is published here with permission. This week’s DEMO Asia saw several startups pitch new ways to...
Minecraft creator distributes nearly 3 million dollars to fellow employees
Minecraft creator Markus Persson, better known as Notch, distributed almost three million dollars in dividends to his fellow employees at Mojang, 25 in all....
Angry Birds gets gesture controls
Not content with being flung into space, the Angry Birds behemoth is evolving alongside the popularity of motion control. SoftKinetic, a leading developer of...
Did the Skyrim map app update just eat all of your in-app purchases?
Bethesda recently released The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Official World Interactive Map app for the iPhone and iPad. Free-to-download, the app provides an interactive...
John Schappert explains Zygna’s strategy for moving beyond Facebook (interview)
John Schappert is the chief operating officer at Zynga. Today, the company is releasing one of his team’s big projects, formerly code-named Project Z,...