RockYou acquires social bingo game maker Ryzing
Social gaming company RockYou has acquired Ryzing,a developer of the game Bingo by Ryzing. That title has been available since 2010, but RockYou took...
Move over, consoles — mobile is the future
Established and new video game companies are moving to the mobile side of the industry, bowing to the inevitable.
It’s all in the cards: How card games such as Solitaire have found new life in social games
Even with all the breakthroughs in technology that have allowed us to become the most entertained society in history, no console-game first-person shooter or online puzzle challenge can trump the popularity of card games...
Trion Worlds will soon have multiple gargantuan online game worlds (interview)
Few game industry chief executives have been as successful at raising money as Lars Buttler, CEO of Trion Worlds, the publisher of massively multiplayer...
Arkadium hires new game design chief as it graduates from Mahjong to bigger games (exclusive)
Arkadium has survived for the past decade by making casual games for the web and Facebook. But with the arms race going in games,...
Activision Publishing teams up with Flurry to release third-party mobile games
Activision Publishing is about to make some big investments in mobile games. One of the ways it will do so is through a third-party...
This mobile app will help you meet people, and will pay you to do it
What if playing a game on your smartphone meant meeting a new friend, being entertained, and making actual cash? That’s what Japanese startup Phewtick...
DeNA’s Rage of Bahamut hits the top of the App Store
One of the biggest strategic shifts happening in gaming today is the investment that Japanese mobile social gaming network giants — Gree and DeNA...
What goes well with a new game? A free old game
In recent years, developers and publishers have offered alternatives to "cat helmets" and night-vision goggles by giving away full versions of older games with the purchase of new ones.
Bored, impressed, and giddy: Our final thoughts on E3 2012 (with photos)
We left the industry trade show with very different opinions on what we saw. Here are our final thoughts.