Flurry and Pinch Media to create mobile analytics powerhouse
Two analytics startups, Flurry and Pinch Media, are announcing a merger today as they try to create a mobile data analytics leader. While Flurry...
In a year of layoffs, game employment rises slightly in North America
Although the game industry has had plenty of layoffs this year, a new survey shows that the employee count at video game companies in...
Metaplace to shut down its site for thousands of virtual worlds
On Jan. 1, some 70,000 virtual worlds will vanish from the Internet. That’s because Metaplace, the company that made the open platform for the...
Game startups raised $600.5 million in 2009, down 36 percent
Game startups continued to score big investments in 2009, but the amount of money raised in the year fell considerably compared to 2008. Our...
The year it exploded: 10 hottest Chinese social games of 2009
Lucas Englehardt is CEO of BloggerInsight and an editor of ChinaSocialGames.com who is working with social gaming companies on executing their China plans. Based...
The best video games of 2009; Pick your favorite, too
1. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony PlayStation 3. Teen) Naughty Dog/Sony. I’m on the record as saying that this third-person shooter title is one...
Mobile games: Have we learned anything at all?
Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by GetJar. It seems games publishers are an ungrateful group. A couple of years ago you heard them...
Reviews Spotlight: Sequels, Demons, Classics, and a New Zelda
This week we have a sequel to the Tales RPG-saga, Demon’s Souls, Excitebots: Trick Racing, and the latest installment in the Zelda series, The...
Hit or Miss Weekend Recap: Dec. 20, 2009
This week on Hit or Miss: Microsoft plans to shatter millions of online relationships with reality-based Avatars; Sony’s motion controller will break new ground...
How to Make Episodic Gaming Work
Editor’s note: Figuring out episodic content is definitely one of the industry’s greatest conundrums. Stephen uses the format of older games to explain how...