6L teams up with 16 mobile game developers and plans big marketing spend per title
6L, the social game company formerly known as 6waves Lolapps,is shifting its weight toward mobile games. The company has signed up 16 new independent...
Numecent spins out Approxy cloud-gaming startup
Numecent, a startup with an interesting new cloud technology for digital delivery, is spinning out Approxy as a new cloud-gaming startup. While Numecent will...
Numecent’s “cloudpaging” could make digital delivery 100x faster
Cloud startup Numecent might completely reshape software distribution, by making it far faster to deliver bits over the internet. For video game players, that...
Apple’s iOS runs HTML5 games three times faster than Android
HTML5 is the new lingua franca of the internet, but games that are written in the format tend to run too slow. The platforms...
Street Fighter X Tekken: From button masher to fighting phenom
When fighting games added an axis and went from flat brawls to three-dimensional rumbles, people joined one camp or another: 2D or 3D. The...
Forza Motorsport fans can look forward to Forza Horizon and Porsche expansion
Fans of Forza Motorsport 4, the best-selling racing game on the Xbox 360, can look forward to a few new product launches from Microsoft...
Star Wars Kinect lets you rampage like a monster using gestures (preview)
Kinect Star Wars is one of the most anticipated games that will use Microsoft’s motion-sensing platform for the Xbox 360. It is a flagship...
iSwifter makes iPad game streaming available to all PC game companies (exclusive)
iSwifter found a niche for its cloud streaming service by enabling Flash games to run on the iPad. Now it is extending its platform...
Trials Evolution creative director discusses going bigger, multiplayer, and female riders (interview)
Trials HD is one of the best-selling Xbox Live Arcade games to date, and for good reason. Released in 2009, the creative, side-scrolling physics-based...
Steel Battalion Heavy Armor combines Kinect and controller commands (hands-on preview)
Steel Battalion Heavy Armor is one of the new hardcore games for the Xbox 360 which makes the daring design decision of using the...