Categories Posted inin Business Hit Detection’s new hire shows where gaming is going: Community first Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 4, 2013 3 min Hit Detection steers toward "community first" game publishing.
Categories Posted inin Business Here’s what you need to build your own holodeck Posted byby Jeff Grubb June 4, 2013 3 min We have the technology -- we just need to combine them to create a Star Trek-like virtual-reality experience.
Categories Posted inin Business How $96,000 can buy you a top 10 ranking in the U.S. app store Posted byby GamesBeat June 4, 2013 2 min Can you buy your way to the top of the app store? In a word, yes.
Categories Posted inin Business Green Throttle will pay a 10 percent commission to indie devs who sell its controllers Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 4, 2013 2 min If a developer sells a controller for Green Throttle, it can pocket about $4 from the sale.
Categories Posted inin Business Double Fine’s Massive Chalice runneth over as it surpasses its crowdfunding goal Posted byby Jeff Grubb June 4, 2013 1 min The studio's turn-based tactics game has more than 20,000 backers and $740,000 in pledges.
Categories Posted inin Business Wikipad’s 7-inch gaming tablet to debut June 11 in U.S. and U.K. Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 4, 2013 1 min The 7-inch device will launch at $249.
Categories Posted inin Business Why Microsoft made its top-down Windows tablet game, Halo: Spartan Assault (video interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 4, 2013 2 min The Halo franchise moves to the tablet for the first time with a playable game.
Categories Posted inin Business Halo: Spartan Assault — mobile, microtransactions, meh (preview) Posted byby GamesBeat June 4, 2013 5 min Putting Microsoft's premiere shooter franchise on a mobile platform might sound like the Holy Grail, but Halo: Spartan Assault runs the risk of becoming the world's first throwaway Halo game.
Categories Posted inin Business Harmonix’s Alex Rigopulos on reinventing music games with Disney’s Fantasia (exclusive interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 4, 2013 10 min Harmonix wants to create a musical creation platform that fits with the original vision Disney had for Fantasia.
Categories Posted inin Business Harmonix shifts music gaming again with Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved (hands-on preview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 4, 2013 6 min Disney's classic musical film will come to life in a new form with a motion-controlled exclusive game for Microsoft's consoles.