Categories Posted inin Business Gree launches its ridiculous fighting game Flop Fu, born from its G-Labs experiment Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 28, 2014 3 min The title is one of the first to come out of the experimental G-Lab at Gree.
Categories Posted inin Business Gamblit Gaming raises $12M to create new kinds of real-money gambling games Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 28, 2014 2 min Gamblit hopes to be the platform for new kinds of gambling games.
Categories Posted inin Business Nvidia Shield price slashed across retailers, best deal at Newegg Posted byby GamesBeat March 28, 2014 3 min A price drop to $199 for the Nvidia shield along with plenty of updates makes the handheld device extra enticing.
Categories Posted inin Business Streaming-service CEO says GameStop is wrong — consumers want cloud gaming Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 27, 2014 3 min Playcast is working on bringing cloud gaming to the U.S. after successfully launching and operating it in France, Portugal, and South Korea.
Categories Posted inin Business Mobile app monetization: Freemium is king, but in-app ads are growing fast Posted byby GamesBeat March 27, 2014 2 min 80 percent of developers reported that less than five percent of their users made even one single in-app purchase
Categories Posted inin Business Uncharted 4’s game director leaves Naughty Dog for League of Legends’ Riot Games Posted byby GamesBeat March 27, 2014 1 min Justin Richmond is following Amy Hennig as the second leader of the Uncharted team to leave this month.
Categories Posted inin Business Watch Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart play drums with Oculus Rift — and see how his brain reacts Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 27, 2014 4 min GlassBrain captures a live performance and real-time signals from Grateful Dead drummer's brain.
Categories Posted inin Business Zynga and its players donate $1M to support safe water nonprofit Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 27, 2014 1 min To date, Zynga.org has raised $18M for nonprofits through 150 in-game campaigns.
Categories Posted inin Development The No. 1 ‘reason to be’ at the Game Developers Conference 2014: Diversity Posted byby GamesBeat March 27, 2014 11 min Panel organizers Brenda Romero and Leigh Alexander made it clear through their slate of speakers for the 2014 edition of #1ReasonToBe that the panel is about diversity in the video game industry, which goes beyond concerns only about gender.
Categories Posted inin Business GameStop closes its game-streaming division — will focus on PlayStation Now Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 27, 2014 2 min GameStop acquired Spawn Labs in 2011 to start streaming games over the cloud, but it doesn't think consumers want something like that yet.