EA’s Spore game creature uploads strong, but game sales now on the decline
Electronic Arts announced today that the number of creatures created for its Spore game has passed 100 million. That sounds wildly successful, and it...
Big Fish Games swallows Grubby Games
Big Fish Games has acquired game development studio Grubby Games as it makes its first big spend from the whopping $83.3 million war chest...
The iPhone’s I am Ninja game asks where you learned to blow
Ninjas and iPhones are a good mix. That’s clear to Axo Studios, which is launching the deliberately ungrammatical game, I am Ninja, on the...
Booyah to launch cause-oriented iPhone entertainment apps
Booyah is nearing the completion of its first round of cause-oriented apps for the iPhone. Keith Lee, (pictured below) chief executive of the Palo...
KingsIsle’s Wizard 101 hits 2 million users, sells gift cards
Apparently a lot of people want to learn how to be wizards. The Wizard101 virtual fantasy world has now passed two million unique registered...
Future Ads launches PlaySushi.com casual games site
Future Ads has launched a new casual games site, PlaySushi.com, aimed at younger players. The company already operates Gamevance.com, a casual game site for...
Namco Bandai’s line-up reflects safe, if boring, game development strategy
Japan’s Namco Bandai Games showed off its 2009 game line-up yesterday at a pre-E3 event in San Francisco where it was plain to see...
Sony to unveil new PlayStation Portable at E3?
Sony is expected to reveal a new PlayStation Portable game handheld at the upcoming E3 trade show in Los Angeles, according to published reports....
Swinefighter game spreads like a virus
A casual web game dubbed Swinefighter is catching on like a virus. The game’s popularity comes on the heels of a global panic about...
Will brands like USA Network kill garage iPhone developers?
USA Network, a large entertainment company, launched its first game for the iPhone today: A word puzzle game dubbed Letter Matrix. This is a...