Categories Posted inin Business Origin Stories: How Gearbox got to make Aliens: Colonial Marines Posted byby GamesBeat February 9, 2013 3 min Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford explains the twisty -- and thoroughly geeky -- path his studio traveled in securing the rights to the Aliens franchise.
Categories Posted inin Business Ubi to Wii U fans: Rayman Legends’ delay broke your heart? Here, have another demo Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 8, 2013 1 min Ubisoft hopes to smooth things over with upset fans by offering them another demo of Rayman Legends.
Categories Posted inin Business Bankrupt 38 Studios finally unfreezes former employee’s 401(k) plans Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 8, 2013 1 min Former 38 Studios's employees can now finally access their 401(k) money.
Categories Posted inin Business Epic shutters Impossible Studios without it ever releasing a game Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 8, 2013 2 min Epic formed Impossible Studios out of the ashes of Big Huge Games, which developed Kingdoms of Amalur, back in June.
Categories Posted inin Business Ex-Zynga developers raise $1.4M to fund new studio and casino games Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 8, 2013 1 min Bee Cave Games has a new casino game in beta right now and plans to release more.
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat weekly roundup: D.I.C.E. 2013, Dead Space 3, and game investments take a dive Posted byby GamesBeat February 8, 2013 3 min If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Categories Posted inin Business An interview with Jenova Chen: How Journey’s creator went bankrupt and won game of the year Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 8, 2013 15 min The game became the bestselling PlayStation Network game of all time, but the team fragmented after it was done.
Categories Posted inin Business Qualcomm is ready to deliver mobile users a real gaming platform (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 8, 2013 10 min With $20 billion in revenue, Qualcomm is creating the mobile platforms that game developers will soon care about, if they don't already.
Categories Posted inin Business Nintendo brings ZombiU Wii U bundle to North America Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 8, 2013 1 min For about $390, gamers can get a Wii U, ZombiU, a Wii U Pro Controller, and more.
Categories Posted inin Business Crytek CEO: Our goal is to ‘transition entirely’ to free-to-play games in 2 to 5 years Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 8, 2013 4 min Crytek won't make Facebook games, but it wants to dominate the world with free-to-play games.