News Blips: Costly 3DS, Growing Game Budgets, Redbox Game Rentals, and More
Remember when we determined the 3DS's hefty cost? The Japanese noticed. News Blips: Eighty percent of Japanese gamers consider Nintendo's 3DS to be a...
PlayFirst raises $9.2M to expand casual gaming offerings
Casual gaming startup PlayFirst announced this morning that it has raised an additional $9.2 million. The company, which started in 2004, is best known...
Video Blips: Black Ops, Epic Mickey, DC Universe Online, and More
Treyarch's unsubtle grab at the modern-shooter spotlight is clearly evident in Call of Duty: Black Ops. I felt right at home after witnessing the...
Current-Gen Multiplayer Is Boring: Redefining What It Means to Play Together
In a recent article on Bitmob, Rus McLaughlin argued that multiplayer is in dire need of fixing. He examined three upcoming titles' approach to...
Zynga to expand social game empire to Seattle
Zynga, the fast-growing maker of social games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, has just posted a bunch of job openings for a social game...
Saying Goodbye
I’m leaving for the city today on a train that I knew would be waiting for me. I knew it would be taking me...
Ngmoco aims to be part of a global social mobile gaming company
Neil Young, chief executive of iPhone game maker Ngmoco, said in an interview today that he agreed to sell his company to Japan’s DeNA...
Japan’s DeNA buys iPhone game publisher Ngmoco for up to $400M
Japan’s DeNA said today it is buying Ngmoco for up to $400 million in cash and stock in the biggest iPhone-related acquisition to date....
Surviving Taliban controversy, Medal of Honor video game assaults the Call of Duty franchise
Electronic Arts is launching Medal of Honor today as a critical reboot of a video game franchise that is a big part of EA’s...
GameSalad aims to let anyone create and launch iPhone apps
If you already think developers have created too many iPhone games (there are 49,000 of them), just wait until user-generated games take off. GameSalad...