Yair Landau leaves Sony Pictures to do games
Yair Landau, the head of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s digital division, is leaving the film studio after two decades to start a video game and...
From baseball to an online fantasy gaming world: Q&A with Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling of 38 Studios
Curt Schilling is one of the legends of Major League Baseball. The six-time All-Star pitcher of the Boston Red Sox and two-time World Series...
Cryptic words about Curt Schilling’s Copernicus
Just what exactly is Copernicus? That’s the code name for 38 Studios massively multiplayer online fantasy game. Curt Schilling’s video game company is making...
Introducing the new digital media blog, Dean Takahashi, and NOT Britney Spears
Last year, Technorati said there were 175,000 blogs being created every day.We’re adding to that today with the new Digital Media section of VentureBeat...
The EA Death Star getting close to Take-Two Tatooine?
Here’s an amusing satirical mash-up (note, the site works intermittently, I found) of Darth Vader and Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello. EA, of course,...
Lars Buttler says online games are just getting started
Last week, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick drew a strong reaction when he said that a competitor would need $500 million or $1 billion to...
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...