Diablo III drops player-versus-player
Game Director Jay Wilson announced on the official Blizzard Entertainment site that Diablo III will be shipping sans its competitive multiplayer component: As we’re...
News Blips: Next Xbox sans disc drive, push for big-hitters a “cancerous growth,” and Mass Effect 3 ships 3.5 million
Another week, another Game Developers Conference (GDC) wrapped up. At least, I think that's what happened. I'm too deliriously sick to tell. News Blips:...
How Thatgamecompany designed its new game, Journey
Kellee Santiago is co-founder and president of Thatgamecompany, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based game studio she started with Jenova Chen. After three years of work,...
Nexon’s Daniel Kim plots move into social and mobile games
For the better part of a decade, Korea’s Nexon has been making online games that users can start playing for free. If they want,...
The DeanBeat: Tips from Ubisoft on making a happy game industry acquisition
It’s no secret that 2012 will be a year full of acquisitions in the game industry. Last year, investments grew 96 percent to $2...
See what Tim Schafer is doing with all your (his) money
Remember that time game maker Tim Schafer asked for $400,000 on Kickstarter and the world gave him $2.5 million? You might be wondering what...
Zynga’s Dyer invites developers to be publishing partners
Rob Dyer is having his coming out party today. He joined social gaming giant Zynga in October as head of partner publishing, and now...
Konami and others will make games for Zynga.com
Zynga announced today that three major game companies have joined its new platform for publishing games on Zynga.com and Facebook. The new third-party partners...
Core game sales drop like a rock in February
Video game sales fell 20 percent in February, with total industry sales falling to $1.06 billion from $1.33 billion a year ago, according to...
Electronic Arts reveals new Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars online numbers
Electronic Arts chief executive John Riccitiello is feeling “awfully good” about the Mass Effect 3 launch.” Speaking at today’s Wedbush Technology, Media and Telecommunications...