Real Games executive tells how the recession will affect casual games
John Barbour has been the president of Real Games — Real Networks’ gaming division that was set to spin off before the IPO market...
Perfect World importing more free-to-play games into Western markets
Chinese game company Perfect World has gained 50 million registered players throughout Asia thanks to its free-to-play business mode. Now the company is expanding...
Last Day of Work debuts Virtual Families simulation
It’s taken a while, but The Sims finally has a clone. Last Day of Work, a San Francisco casual game developer, has unveiled Virtual...
Game review: Flower for the PlayStation 3 breathes life into stale games
If you took the most beautiful scenery in mega-hit video games such as Halo 3, Gears of War 2, and Resistance 2 — and...
Scene Systems reconstructs scenes such as Sully’s crash landing
When big bucks are at stake, law firms will often pay computer animators a lot of money to reconstruct crime scenes or other events...
Gentlemen, start your next-generation game console rumors
The video game console wars have been kind of boring lately, with no hot rumors to talk about. But Charlie Demerjian of the Inquirer...
SGN launches its mafia game for the iPhone
Social Gaming Network is joining the mafia game fray on the iPhone today with the launch of Mafia: Respect & Retribution. The social networking...
Microsoft rebrands SkyBox to rhyme with “iPhone”?
Microsoft is expected to unveil its mobile cloud sync service known as SkyBox at the Mobile World Congress event in Spain later this month....
“The Race for a New Game Machine” book chronicles the Sony-Microsoft-IBM love triangle
The shenanigans between Sony, Microsoft and IBM in the game business will probably go down as one of the great corporate love triangles of...
Image Metrics makes it easier and cheaper to put real faces in games
We’ve said before that the last great challenge in computer animation and video games will be to render realistic human faces. As it stands now,...