Categories Posted inin Business Zynga to shut four more weak games, including The Ville Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 24, 2013 2 min Zynga also killed two unreleased games, but it is on the verge of launching Draw Something 2.
Categories Posted inin Business One of the fake languages from HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ hides a reference to Castlevania Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 24, 2013 1 min One word from the fictional High Valyrian references a particular item from Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.
Categories Posted inin Business Zynga hits earnings targets and stays profitable in Q1 Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 24, 2013 4 min Still, shareholders are spooked. Zynga's stock is trading down, perhaps because metrics and outlook are weak.
Categories Posted inin Business Smartphone game explores 2011 London riots with arcadey gameplay Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 24, 2013 2 min Can an endless runner for smartphones have an important message?
Categories Posted inin Business If today’s developers made NES games (gallery) Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 24, 2013 2 min Ever wonder what Final Fantasy would look like if Square Enix released it today? Wonder no longer.
Categories Posted inin Business Microsoft officially revealing next-generation Xbox on May 21 Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 24, 2013 1 min Microsoft is showing off its new Xbox video game console three months after Sony unveiled the PlayStation 4.
Categories Posted inin Business U.K. retailer Tesco pulls listing for Call of Duty: Ghosts after ‘it was put up accidentally’ Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 24, 2013 1 min Is Call of Duty: Ghosts the next game in the first-person shooter franchise?
Categories Posted inin Development How Pixar made Monsters University, its latest technological marvel Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 24, 2013 12 min Pixar gave a rare look inside the making of Monsters University in visit to the company's campus in Emeryville, Calif.
Categories Posted inin Entertainment Bringing characters to life with Pixar’s animator magic (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 24, 2013 7 min Even with computers, it still takes weeks to create a few seconds of animation. Monsters are harder to animate than you'd expect.
Categories Posted inin Business Creating a creature with 5.5M pieces of animated hair in Pixar’s Monsters University (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 24, 2013 7 min Monster's University is a technological marvel that took a room full of computers years to fully animate. A single frame took 29 hours to render.