History Channel launches Top Shot Facebook game to coincide with TV show premiere
If you’ve ever wanted to know how good a shot you are — without firing a real gun — the folks at the History...
Can Zynga satisfy investors with its first-ever earnings report?
Zynga is expected to report a profit for the fourth-quarter in its first-ever quarter financial report after the market closes on Tuesday. The largest...
Eat Sleep Play: “Sometimes you have to give them what they don’t know they want”
Sony recently held a Twisted Metal launch event in San Francisco. Developed by Eat Sleep Play, the game heralds the return of the longest-running...
Opinions, tears, and expletives: David Jaffe explains why games shouldn’t have stories
Twisted Metal Game Director David Jaffe was one of a few speakers selected to give a presentation at DICE this year. Jaffe’s vulgar language...
ZeptoLab cuts deals with toymakers on Cut the Rope characters
ZeptoLab is cashing in on its Cut the Rope smartphone game — which has been downloaded more than 100 million times — by announcing...
Zynga launches iPhone game Dream Heights: Let the copycat wars begin
Zynga launched its Dream Heights mobile game for the iPhone and iPad today. The title enables players to build the “skyscraper of the century,” but...
Making Fun joins the hidden-object game fray on Facebook with Hidden Haunts (exclusive)
Making Fun, the social game division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., has launched a hidden object game called Hidden Haunts that will set itself...
EA and Tencent to take The Sims Social game to China
Electronic Arts and Chinese social network Tencent are taking EA’s The Sims Social game to China. Beijing-based Tencent, which has hundreds of millions of...
Why Sony’s Shu Yoshida thinks the PlayStation Vita will kill it in the U.S. compared to Japan (interview)
Shuhei Yoshida is in charge of all of the games that Sony makes internally for the PlayStation 3 and its other platforms. The president...
Double Fine’s Kickstarter success shows publishers what players want
A large number of reactions emerged from the Double Fine Kickstarter news, but one of the first headlines that started popping up around the...