Categories Posted inin Business Live Gamer adds MasterCard’s new payment service to digital game and app storefronts Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 26, 2014 2 min The deal will grease the skids of digital commerce.
Categories Posted inin Business Only 0.15 percent of mobile gamers account for 50 percent of all in-game revenue (exclusive) Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 26, 2014 3 min It pays to identify and target your game's high rollers, but don't be unrealistic about how many people will spend money.
Categories Posted inin Business EA founder Trip Hawkins’ If You Can raises $6.5M for social-emotional learning games Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 26, 2014 5 min The new game, If..., heralds new titles that teach "emotional intelligence."
Categories Posted inin Business Court dismisses shareholder lawsuit against Zynga [update] Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 26, 2014 1 min Zynga's stock fell after its IPO, but a court found no evidence of fraud by management.
Categories Posted inin Technology Bingo! GSN buys Bash Gaming for an estimated $160M to $170M Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 26, 2014 2 min The agreement was reached after an abortive deal failed last year.
Categories Posted inin Business South Park: The Stick of Truth’s abortion, anal-probing scenes censored in Europe, Middle East, and Africa Posted byby GamesBeat February 25, 2014 2 min When South Park: The Stick of Truth releases in the Americas, it will have two minutes of gruesome content that won't exist in many parts of the world.
Categories Posted inin Business Play chess against world champion Magnus Carlsen in this iPhone app Posted byby GamesBeat February 25, 2014 1 min A new mobile app lets you go up against the new chess champion of the world, Magnus Carlsen.
Categories Posted inin Business Microsoft: Twitch broadcasting looks ‘crisp’ on Xbox One Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 25, 2014 3 min Microsoft explains how it worked with Twitch engineers to set its livestreaming experience apart.
Categories Posted inin Business Candy Crush Saga publisher abandons the ‘Candy’ trademark in the U.S. after acquiring Candy Crusher Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 25, 2014 3 min King now has the rights to a 2008 mobile puzzler called Candy Crusher that it will use to protect its Candy Crush Saga property.
Categories Posted inin Business Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy provides an epic and emotional series finale (review) Posted byby GamesBeat February 25, 2014 5 min Critical thinking is the key to success. But a great plot, fun puzzles, and interesting characters also help, and this game has all of those things.