Nexon’s Owen Mahoney sees salvation through original hardcore games, not Flappy Bird copycats (interview)
Nexon's Owen Mahoney is driving his company toward more creative free-to-play titles.
Wooga’s Jens Begemann on making the transition from social to mobile games (interview)
The German gamemaker's revenues doubled in the past year. And 70 percent of it now comes from mobile.
Ken Levine leaving behind linear narratives and ‘going back to the drawing board’
After nearly 20 years, the master storyteller is ready to give players choice.
Oops: Sucker Punch may have revealed the preloading of PS4 games in April
PlayStation 4 owners may not have to wait much longer to start downloading digital games before they release, if a tweet by Sony-owned developer Sucker Punch is true.
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Wargaming will overhaul World of Tanks’ graphics in 2014
New models, textures, and effects will make the wide-scale destruction of World of Tanks a lot prettier.
Microsoft’s game studio chief Phil Spencer defends the Xbox One launch strategy
Phil Spencer says that Microsoft is learning and adapting as it fights the console war.
Crytek and DeNA partner to launch mobile action game The Collectables
The Collectables brings high-quality 3D visuals to iOS using Crytek's CryEngine development tool.
Adam Orth: Internet toxicity’s effect on the game industry is ‘very real and very dangerous’
SAN FRANCISCO — Adam Orth knows that he made a terrible mistake last April when he tweeted that he didn’t understand the controversy about always-online...
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