Will Wright favors Web 2.0-like community-driven game design
Will Wright believes that successful games depend on a feedback cycle where designers create games and incorporate the feedback and content generated by users....
Graham Hopper expands Disney’s video game kingdom
Graham Hopper, executive vice president and general manager of Disney Interactive Studios, gets to see a broad swatch of the video game business, since...
Hal Halpin of ECA lobbies for gamers’ rights in a digital world
Hal Halpin is the founder and president of the Entertainment Consumers Association. Halpin formed the nonprofit association to be an advocate for the interests...
InXpo teams up with experience-marketing firm to lure big brands
InXpo hopes to draw big brands to its virtual trade shows by hooking up with a well-known experience-marketing firm, George P. Johnson. Experience marketing...
Sony cuts price of aging PlayStation 2 to $99
In a move that could spur demand at the low end of the video game market, Sony cut the price of its PlayStation 2...
Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime addresses OnLive, iPhone competition and used games
It’s been about six months since we last interviewed Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America. in the meantime, Nintendo has lined up the...
Will OnLive succeed with its video-games-on-demand service?
OnLive created a big stir last week as it announced a video-games-on-demand service set to launch this fall. The service promises to let gamers...
Game industry executives react to OnLive video games on demand announcement
Steve Perlman’s OnLive video games on demand service was the talk of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week. Every person I...
Intel’s Larrabee graphics processor draws a crowd at Game Developers Conference
Intel will be launching its Larrabee chip next year — a chip that will live or die depending on how popular it is with...
Reconstructing the fall of game developer Flagship Studios
Flagship Studios was one of the most ambitious game development studios started in recent years. It launched a critically acclaimed game, Hellgate: London, in...