Backflip Studios hits 100M downloads for its mobile games
Backflip Studios announced today that its mobile games have been downloaded more than 100 million times in the past two years. Only a few...
PBS NewsHour hackers turn eyes to Sony
LulzSec, the group of hackers that broke into PBS’ NewsHour website, has said it is attacking Sony — although the PlayStation Network (PSN), the...
Finally approved by Apple, iSwifter 3.0 launches its game browser for the iPad
Startup iSwifter has created the ability to stream a Flash game onto the iPad through a special app. Normally, Adobe Flash games (which are...
Angry Birds developer acquires animation studio Kombo
Rovio, the Helsinki-based developer of gaming sensation Angry Birds, announced Wednesday it had acquired Finnish animation studio Kombo for an undisclosed amount of cash...
Amazon’s Android Appstore gets Plants vs Zombies first
Amazon’s Android Appstore is making a bigger name for itself today with the exclusive release of the popular game Plants vs Zombies by PopCap...
Tapjoy CEO: a single line of code could solve promo problem with Apple
Tapjoy chief executive Mihir Shah said in an interview that a single line of code could solve his company’s dispute with Apple over the...
Will Tolkien fans finally get a decent Lord of the Rings game?
Lord of the Rings fans are a perpetual market for video games. But they haven’t been served well by video game publishers over the...
From game critic to game creator: 5 levels of understanding
Everyone wants to be a game reviewer. No, scratch that — everyone wants to make games. Hmm, no, that’s not right either. Wait, wait...
News Blips: Call of Duty Elite details, more hacker threats for Sony, Catherine is weird, and more
Everyone should stop ragging on Activision boss Bobby Kotick for implementing a premium subscription fee in the upcoming Call of Duty Elite service. After...
Video Blips: Call of Duty Elite, Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, Red Faction: Armageddon, and more
I'm absolutely floored by the amazingly detailed mouth animations of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Why, I wish I could communicate entire coherent sentences...