How Thatgamecompany designed its new game, Journey
Kellee Santiago is co-founder and president of Thatgamecompany, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based game studio she started with Jenova Chen. After three years of work,...
See what Tim Schafer is doing with all your (his) money
Remember that time game maker Tim Schafer asked for $400,000 on Kickstarter and the world gave him $2.5 million? You might be wondering what...
Facebook’s tips for getting your mobile game noticed
Mobile games are so plentiful that discovering the right one has become a nightmare. But Facebook believes that it has a solution in layering...
Browser-based games get real 3D graphics with latest Unreal Engine and Flash technology
Epic Games did a demo today of Unreal Engine 3 running in the Adobe Flash environment. That means games with good 3D graphics will be able...
Alex St. John’s Magi.com launches social gaming hub (exclusive)
Alex St. John is back. The former president of social network Hi5 sold off the struggling service to Tagged in December. But now he is...
Zynga reaches beyond Facebook with Zynga.com
Zynga.com just went live. Announced last week, the web site is a new destination for Zynga’s gamers, who have been largely confined to playing...
Facebook paid $1.4B to game developers in 2011
Facebook paid more than $1.4 billion to game developers (and other app makers) in 2011, according to a Facebook talk at the Game Developers...
Otoy buys Refractive Software and announces cloud-based digital animation technology (exclusive)
Cloud-gaming startup Otoy is making some big moves in advance of next week’s Game Developers Conference, including its first acquisition: the animated film technology...
Iddiction’s App-o-Day aims to cure App Store discovery woes with “Groupon for apps”
Discovery is still a huge problem on the Apple App Store, with 578,716 active apps and no sure-fire way to stand out. Iddiction hopes...
Ludei’s CocoonJS enables blazing-fast HTML5 mobile games (exclusive)
As the lingua franca for the web, HTML5 is becoming the format of choice for making cross-platform apps. But when it comes to games,...