Mystery narrative and new features headline CityVille 2’s launch
The social game has an original story and new gameplay features to expand the developer's reach into the genre.
Nintendo’s weekly update adds 3DS demos for Style Savvy and Freakyforms
It's a fairly slow week for the Nintendo Download, as the company adds a few 3DS demos and not much else. Also, there's a banana monster.
How Chartboost’s ad network exploded to serve 8,000 games in 1 year
Chartboost has seen explosive growth as developers try to reduce their user acquisition costs for mobile games.
Developer support builds for Ngmoco’s mobile social gaming network
DeNA's Mobage network is big in Japan, and it is expanding in the West.
Minecraft-like first-person shooter heads to Steam in December
The prototype of first-person shooter Ace of Spades already has 500,000 monthly players. Now, developer Jagex is helping prepare the game for a final release.
Amazon Game Studios launches its first mobile game: Air Patriots
Amazon has become a first-party producer of games for its own platforms.
Win a hardback copy of ‘The Art of Assassin’s Creed III’
It's one of the best-looking games of the year. Now you can win a beautiful hardback book collecting the concept art that helped build Assassin's Creed III.
Joining the insane social sports-betting crowd, Bunker Mode debuts its High Limit Sports app (exclusive)
The social sports-betting genre is exploding with new start-ups.
343 Industries’ Josh Holmes on Halo 4’s love story, weaponry, and new enemies (interview)
343 Industries has inherited the Halo from Bungie, the series creator. Find out what is different about Halo 4.
Better graphics and physics gave designers more freedom for Halo 4 (interview)
Our interview with David Berger, the technical director for Halo 4, reveals how graphics, physics and game play have been totally revamped in the new game.