Aggressive expansion: How Hero Academy came to embrace China and Steam (interview)
We interview Patrick Hudson, chief executive of Robot Entertainment, about the recent moves that they have made for their popular iOS strategy game, Hero Academy.
Updated: Surprise, surprise: Sony drops OnLive support for streaming media player after purchasing Gaikai
[Update: We’ve updated this story to be more precise. It is still confusing, but we’ve added the facts as we know them] Sony has...
Poker site CEO arrested on new Ponzi scheme charges
Ray Bitar, Full Tilt Poker’s CEO, was arrested yesterday on new charges that the poker czar has been involved in a Ponzi scheme. Bitar...
Activision Blizzard partners with Tencent to take Call of Duty Online to China
Activision Blizzard has partnered with Chinese Internet portal Tencent to launch Call of Duty Online in China. The long-term partnership brings two of gaming’s juggernauts together....
Fiksu raises $10M for mobile app marketing platform
Boston-based Fiksu will use the funds to expand its mobile app user acquisition platform.
Apple’s crackdown on app-ranking manipulation: Confused developers caught in the dragnet
In the battle between Apple’s police and the developers who cheat to boost their rankings, some innocent startups are finding themselves banned from the marketplace.
The Nintendocalypse and you
If you follow video game news, you must be aware that we are on the brink of the Nintendo apocalypse (or Nintendocalypse, if you...
Get-In-The-Game pitch competition @ Casual Connect Seattle 2012!
On July 24th, YetiZen will be at Casual Connect Seattle 2012 hosting their third amazing Get-In-The-Game Pitch Competition! This is your chance to present...
Total War: Rome II elevates the human drama of war (preview)
The Creatively Assembly's upcoming sequel to Rome: Total War places a greater emphasis on investing players with their units and soldiers.
What happened to the horror in survival horror?
In their attempts to reach a wider audience, survival-horror video game developers could be ruining what made their games great in the first place: the horror.