Will Facebook games become faster and richer?
The problem with Facebook as a game platform is that most of the games running on it are slow. For hardcore gamers, as well...
Hands-on preview of Gears of War 3: an epic story with closure
Gears of War 3 from Epic Games will be one of the game industry’s early seasonal blockbusters when the third-person shooter game debuts on Microsoft’s Xbox...
Gears of War 3 producer describes the end to an epic series (video)
Gears of War 3 debuts on Sept. 20. It will bring to a close the trilogy of sci-fi games that started in 2006 and...
New Orleans snares a Gameloft game studio with tax incentives
Video games used to be political cannon fodder on the state level, with politicians creating laws to stop the sale of violent video games...
Google+ games attacks the heart of Facebook’s revenues (poll)
There’s a reason why Google seems like it’s in a big rush to get games up and running on its Google+ social network. That’s...
Japanese mobile game companies make their own strategic moves
Japan is seeing a lot of action in the heavy rivalry between the two mobile social game networks DeNA and Gree. DeNA announced today that it...
Facebook strikes back at Google with its own game enhancements
Fighting back against Google’s new social game platform, Facebook announced its own game announcements today. The enhancements are part of a larger set of...
Ansca Mobile’s LaunchPad will help app developers with discovery
Ansca Mobile has enabled a lot of developers to create their own iPhone and Android games via its Corona software development kit. But in...
Q&A: Amazon’s Appstore for Android is selling lots of games
Amazon wants to sell anything physical or digital. Almost four months ago, the company opened its Amazon Appstore for Android to provide some competition...
PayPal: 12M monthly users are paying for virtual goods (updated)
More than 12 million unique users pay for virtual goods each month, according to data released for the first time today by digital payments...