The DeanBeat: Crowd-funding gives hope to mid-size game developers
Double Fine Productions turned video game funding practices upside down last week when it raised more than $1.75 million through the crowd-funding site Kickstarter...
Linden Lab acquires LittleTextPeople for new projects this year
Anyone remember Linden Lab? How about its game, Second Life? Well, it was the talk of the middle of the last decade (and winner...
Minecraft official LEGO set ready for pre-order
More than 5 million people have been playing with virtual building blocks in Minecraft. This summer, they’ll get the opportunity to manually assemble 480...
Modern Warfare 3 goes free-to-play for a limited time
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the best-selling anything ever, is now free on Steam until Sunday afternoon. With roughly 10 trillion copies sold...
Report claims developers are abandoning PlayStation Vita for Nintendo 3DS
Japanese newspaper Nikkei is reporting that developers are abandoning PlayStation Vita projects in favor of the Nintendo 3DS. (Nikkei was also the first to break the...
Hulu Plus lands on Nintendo Wii, 3DS support coming soon
Nintendo’s Wii game console gained some significant ground as a streaming video set-top box with the announcement of a new Hulu Plus channel launching...
Valve’s digital distribution kingdom by the numbers (Steam-powered infographic)
VideoGameDesignSchools.org has crafted a slick infographic detailing Valve’s conquest of the digital distribution market. It should come as no surprise that Steam is doing...
Sony PlayStation Vita teardown reveals the guts of the high-end portable gaming device
The Sony PlayStation Vita goes on sale in stores next week, but the folks at iFixit have already torn one apart to figure out...
Small companies can do quick market research with Peanut Labs’ Crowdvibe (exclusive)
Peanut Labs is launching its Crowdvibe site today to allow anyone to create quick polls or market research surveys with large numbers of respondents...
Kabam looks beyond Facebook for its growth in hardcore social games (exclusive)
Kabam made its mark in social games on Facebook, but the company is rapidly diversifying away from the social network as it pursues fans...