Playing Along at Home – Mobcast #11
By now a lot of you have listened to the latest Mobcast (apologies on the up-and-down sound quality — we’re working on it!). It’s...
Eight virtual goods companies, including Facebook, raised $237 M in second quarter
Eight virtual goods companies raised $237 million from investors in the second quarter, Engage Digital announced today. Game companies are adopting virtual goods models...
Mobcast Episode 011
It's an EGM-heavy podcast this week, as four ex-EGMers talk a lot of memories. But we also bring in the visiting Derek Lavigne, who...
Warner Bros. greenlights Green Lantern superhero game
Warner Bros. and game developer Double Helix have partnered to create an action-based video game slated around the comic book hero Green Lantern, VentureBeat...
King.com joins the migration to iPhone and Facebook games
Like numerous other established game companies, King.com is expanding its turf from just web-based casual games to iPhone and Facebook games. The London-based company’s...
Disciple role-playing game debuts Facebook version
Disciple, a fantasy role-playing Web game, now has a Facebook version where players can communicate and fight with players in the original web version...
Daily Blips: Tomb Raider Reboot, Dragon Quest 9 Sales, StarCraft 2 Delayed, and More
We’re glad Tomb Raider is getting a reboot. It’s about time Lara Croft got a permit for entering those damn tombs. News Blips: •...
Dragon Quest: Protectors of the Whimsical Accents
Dragon Quest 9 released in Japan over the weekend, and several of my Japan-based Twitter and Facebook friends immediately proceeded to sequester themselves away...
What the Hell: Dead Fantasy Still Alive and Kicking Ridiculous Ass
We all have silly fantasies about our favorite videogame characters beating the crap out of each other at some point, right? Well, we do....
Mario Mushrooms and Boba Tea
Continuing an unofficial series of random gaming-related stuff found around San Francisco, I wanted to put up a quick post about what I came...