Zynga expands its game cards to distributors in Europe and Turkey
Zynga‘s quest is to get the whole world to play social games. To make that happen, the company has to set up payment mechanisms...
French investor pours money into Online Warmongers at $50M valuation
Paris-based Cybergun, a maker of fancy toy guns, said today that it has acquired 50 percent of Online Warmongers, the maker of the free-to-play...
Nintendo 3DS redesign could come next month
Nintendo, the manufacturer behind home consoles like the Wii and handheld consoles like the Nintendo DS, could unveil a redesign of its latest Nintendo...
Sony redesigns its PlayStation Home virtual world as a social game hub
Hoping to jump on a trend, Sony is planning to launch a redesign of its PlayStation Home virtual world, making it into a hub...
How to Shake Up Nintendo
Warning, I am a huge Nintendo fan. A fan that has to turn to other consoles for games that I want to play. Franchises...
How Microsoft engineered Kinect to withstand gamers and lightning strikes
Microsoft engineers spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about how they built the Kinect motion sensing system, offering a rare glimpse inside the...
Hands on with Microsoft’s slick speech-powered Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7 (video)
Microsoft is rolling out a whole host of speech recognition features for its Windows Phone 7 devices and Kinect-enabled Xbox 360 consoles in a...
Zynga gets slapped with patent lawsuit over credits-based gaming
Game maker Zynga is being taken to court over patents that cover some fundamental aspects of social gaming: credits and prize redemption. Agincourt Gaming,...
iQU launches marketing and analytics service for online games
Gamer-profiling company iQU is launching an analytics and marketing platform to help online games find more users through mobile and social networks. The Haarlem,...
Age of Empires Online could make free-to-play games mainstream
A new age is dawning in the video game business, and Microsoft wants to be part of it. Today, Microsoft is formally launching its...