Indie devs on Kickstarter need love too
Only two months ago few of us knew that Kickstarter existed, and now it has exploded into our consciousness with Double Fine’s adventure project...
Starhawk preview: Fast-action kill fest arrives on May 8
Starhawk, Sony’s new third-person sci-fi shooter game that debuts on May 8, is a frenetic action game that requires you to be a good...
6L cuts its development team as it focuses on third-party game publishing
6L, the social-gaming company formerly known as 6waves Lolapps, said today that it has laid off much of its development staff. Instead of using...
Halfbrick Studios acquires Onan Games for quick cross-platform ports
Australia’s Halfbrick Studios, maker of the popular Fruit Ninja mobile game, has acquired Onan Games so that it can publish titles across platforms more...
Zynga reportedly trying to acquire Draw Something maker OMGPOP
Zynga is reportedly in discussions to buy OMGPOP, the maker of the enormously successful Draw Something mobile game, according to TechCrunch. The deal shows...
Neil Young’s path to the multibillion-dollar mobile social game market (interview)
GamesBeat: Some people in the development community are having a tough time with user acquisition now. Costs are rising. How do you look at...
How scientists can manipulate us with games to gather data
Smartphones have turned us into an army of accidental data collectors, checking in at locations, taking photos, recording audio, even gauging network speeds wherever...
Street Fighter X Tekken on-disc content will reportedly cost over $100 to unlock
Shortly before the March 6 release of Street Fighter X Tekken for the Xbox 360 and PS3, players uncovered notable content locked on the retail...
How Germany’s Wooga took Facebook by storm (interview)
After Zynga, the second-biggest player on Facebook isn't Electronic Arts anymore. It's Wooga, a Berlin-based studio that has become Europe's largest social game publisher with more than 49 million monthly active users on Facebook.
Now Wooga has raised $24 million in venture capital and has grown to more than 150 employees. The company now faces a number of strategic decisions, such as doubling down on Facebook or spreading out to platforms such as Google+ or Zynga.com. We caught up with co-founder Jens Begemann at the recent Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Here's a transcript of our interview.
Game makers embrace the iPad on launch day
Game developers and publishers expressed their support for the new Apple iPad as it launched around the world on Friday. One of the ways...