The road ahead in mobile games
Mobile gaming is the wide-open battleground of the entertainment industry. While Zynga dominates social games and big publishers rule console games, the global smartphone...
Nintendo’s glacial eStore and Virtual Console release schedule actually encourages piracy
Sorry, Operation Rainfall — Nintendo seems flood-proof. Let’s get this straight first: I don’t advocate piracy. I pay for my entertainment. Sometimes I even...
News Blips: Mainstream media as a tool, phones might outstrip consoles, and Witcher 2 lawsuit
If games need an extra visibility boost within the media, I hope they make more commercials like this gripping paragon of theater. News Blips:...
Video Blips: Rage, PlanetSide 2, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, and more
I wonder why games continue portraying the government's final solution against an apocalyptic cataclysm as a failed initiative to store a portion of humanity...
Social game maker Tiny Speck hires Japan’s famous game designer Keita Takahashi
Tiny Speck, a social game startup that has been making a title called Glitch, has scored a coup with the hiring of Keita Takahashi,...
Zynga’s 15th acquisition in 13 months: Toronto’s Five Mobile
Zynga has acquired the assets of Five Mobile, a Toronto-based developer of mobile apps. The new team will be known as Zynga Toronto and...
80 of gaming’s brightest minds share their secrets next week
We have 80 (updated) of the gaming industry’s best and brightest lined up for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. We’re grateful that so many...
EA’s next mobile lineup features multi-platform multiplayer mayhem (video)
The next version of Electronic Arts’ mobile Scrabble game will let players compete against each other across multiple devices and platforms — at the...
News Blips: Deus Ex lawsuit, Hideo Kojima on L.A. Noire face tech, Wii U’s online presence, and more
Lawsuits come and go, but this one holds special significance: I can finally joke that Square Enix's neural net got broken by rebellious hackers. Wait,...
Video Blips: Soul Calibur 5, The Secret World, Dead Block, and more
At this point, I'm tempted to write off every Japanese development studio as the epitome of grace and humility — a status certainly better...