If your kids like Pokémon, they’ll go nuts for Nukotoys (with video)
My 9-year-old collects and plays with Pokémon cards, but if what I saw today from Nukotoys today is any indication of what we can...
Legendary game exec Bing Gordon on epic poems, the golden age of gaming, and Xbox as a platform
Former Electronic Arts exec and current Kleiner Perkins partner Bing Gordon was on-stage at MobileBeat 2012 today in San Francisco. After opening unconventionally with...
Gaming investors say the iPad will be this generation’s console
Anticipating an explosion in mobile gaming in the next five years, investors say they are placing bets on what they see as the underserved...
Chartboost, TinyCo partnership seeks to ‘boost’ game development on Kindle Fire
Chartboost and TinyCo are launching a program to fuel the creation of games on Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet. The endorsement shows that the Kindle...
Gamevil boosts its multimillion-dollar investment of mobile-game developers (exclusive)
South Korea’s Gamevil has expanded dramatically on a global stage, investing more than $10 million in mobile game developers in the past year. Now...
The mystery of why Pretty Pet Salon was banned from the App Store and then returned
On Jan. 12, 2012, Pretty Pet Salon mysteriously disappeared from the App Store and then returned again in a different form at the end of March. Why this happened is an interesting tale.
A visual tour of the 2012 Apple Design Awards winners
Love it or hate it, Apple is about design. The company’s annual design awards were announced this week at the World Wide Developers Conference...
Transformers developer using past critiques to fuel change (video interview)
Developer High Moon Studios is hoping to make a more-engaging game with Transformers: Fall of Cybertron by addressing the critical feedback they received on the previous installment in the series.
AppStats launches new window on Facebook winners and losers
Today AppStats is launching a new window on who’s winning and who’s losing in Facebook apps. The app analytics site, created by Berlin-based newsmag Social...
Facebook games now playing in News Feed and Timeline
Leave it to Facebook to invent yet another way to keep us all glued to the site. The social network has made the status...