Categories Posted inin Technology Veteran developers’ new take on a 30-year-old wizard game comes together in the cloud Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 27, 2014 4 min Fixer Studios is basing its Sinister Dexter on an old pen-and-paper RPG while working with a revolving group of industry pros.
Categories Posted inin Business Murdered: Soul Suspect turns a ghost story into a fascinating, original video game (hands-on preview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 27, 2014 9 min You're dead. And your investigative task as the player is to solve your own murder.
Categories Posted inin Business Live from London: U.K. game conventions turn to Twitch to broadcast expos online Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 27, 2014 2 min Gamers around the world can use Twitch to watch what is happening at the EGX Rezzed and EGX London events.
Categories Posted inin Business Nintendo pulling the plug on Wii and DS online gaming (updated) Posted byby GamesBeat February 27, 2014 2 min Come May 20, Nintendo will shut down its Wi-Fi Connection service, an online network for Wii and DS games.
Categories Posted inin Business Digital card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft will soon have unlockable decorative card backs Posted byby GamesBeat February 26, 2014 2 min Pictures of upcoming designs and some information on how you can get them soon.
Categories Posted inin Business Minecraft is mainstream with 100M registered PC accounts and 14.3M copies sold Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 26, 2014 2 min The original Minecraft has converted more than 14 percent of those people into paying customers.
Categories Posted inin Development Cloning for good: Code.org eases kids into programming with Flappy Bird Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 26, 2014 2 min In around 10 minutes, just about anyone can have their own version of Flappy Bird running on Code.org.
Categories Posted inin Business Activision shuts down Call of Duty Elite premium subscription service Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 26, 2014 2 min The end of the premium social network service shows not everything with the Call of Duty name succeeds.
Categories Posted inin Business Google Play’s game-related revenues are growing twice as fast as iOS Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 26, 2014 2 min The rise of the Asian and Pacific markets are helping Android games grow at a rapid rate.
Categories Posted inin Business Valve gives control of sales on Steam to developers Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 26, 2014 2 min Game makers can set up discounts on their games up to two months in advance.