Phil Harrison takes job at Atari; I eat my hat
This move puzzles me. When I heard the rumors that Phil Harrison had left the job as head of Sony’s worldwide game studios last...
Tapatap rolls out version 2 of its mobile gaming service
Mobile gaming 1.0 is giving way to mobile gaming 2.0, says Isaac Babbs, CEO of Tapatap. Today, the San Mateo, Calif. startup is unveiling...
Q&A with Wagner James Au on his book “The Making of Second Life”
Wagner James Au began writing his New World Notes blog on the virtual world Second Life in 2003. For two years, under contract with...
This pirate just scored $3.5 million in VC funds
Daniel James loves to show up at video game events dressed as a pirate. The CEO of Three Rings has announced he has scored...
The Scrabulous Facebook game in the NYT spotlight
Ever since Scrabulous was created by a couple of brothers in India, it has been a hot property on Facebook with more than 700,000...
Trion chief thinks Activision Blizzard is trying to scare off WoW rivals
Lars Buttler isn’t shy in this story in GameDaily. The CEO of Redwood City, Calif.-based Trion World Network says that Bobby Kotick, the CEO...
GDC roundup part 3: from Ray Kurzweil to Will Wright to the long lines for Portal post-mortem
Futurist Ray Kurzweil dazzled the crowd last Thursday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco with his prediction that technological progress is accelerating...
GDC roundup part 2: journalists squaring off and user-generated games
I saw plenty of clashing and gnashing at the Game Developers Conference. User-generated games created plenty of it, but so did journalists themselves. On...
Peter Leahy starts venture capital firm for videos games/entertainment
Video game industry veteran Peter Leahy has started a venture capital firm and is raising $20 million to invest in creative properties including video...
GDC roundup post: the overshadowed casual games
I spent 70 working hours at the Game Developers Conference last week and here are the things that I gleaned from that experience. It...