Electronic Arts’ The Sims Social hits 4.6 million daily players a week after launch
Electronic Arts’ latest Facebook game, The Sims Social, has picked up more than 4.6 million daily active users after launching a week ago, according...
Game veterans form startup Motiga to make social mobile games
A team of online game veterans has formed Motiga, a startup dedicated to making cloud-based mobile games. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company is unveiling its...
GameStop pulls coupon for free OnLive Deus Ex: Human Revolution copy from physical PC game
Video game retailer GameStop has admitted to removing coupons from boxed PC versions of Deus Ex: Human Revolution for free versions of the game...
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...