Angry Birds, happy company: Rovio talks Hong Kong IPO
Angry Birds, the two year-old blockbuster game and burgeoning franchise, has propelled its Finnish-maker Rovio to super-stardom. Now, the company is mulling the idea...
Review: OnLive Mobilized: How cloud gaming works on cell carriers
This holiday season, mobile gamers will get a chance to do something they’ve never been able to do: play console games on smartphones and...
Zynga’s stock rises in early trading (and then falls)
Zynga’s stock price rose as high as 15 percent in early trading on Nasdaq as the company went public at $10 a share. [Update:...
Zynga by the numbers (infographic)
Social game maker Zynga, which began public trading today on the Nasdaq, released its latest set of numbers that are meant to dazzle investors....
The9’s Game Zone enables mobile game discovery in China (exclusive)
The9, an online gaming company with a long history in China, said it has scored good results making games more discoverable in the China...
The DeanBeat: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception tops our list of the 10 best games of 2011
This year, with our ramped up our GamesBeat review team, we’ve taken our Game of the Year choices much more seriously than we have...
Analysts: Market for new game handhelds shrinking compared to heyday
The legacy of Nintendo’s Game Boy may not end with the 3DS, but two industry analysts suggest the Kyoto, Japan-based company’s line of portable...
Biomedical company creates muscle sensor based game controller (video)
Biomedical company Advancer Technologies has created a plug-in-play device that allows players to directly control video games with their muscles using the power of...
‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Black Ops’ top the list of video game searches on Google in 2011
Google has released its nifty Zeitgeist report for 2011, outlining the most popular search terms under a number of different categories. Somewhat unsurprisingly, the...
CD Projekt demands $1,230 from suspected Witcher 2 pirates
Last month Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt talked about the estimated 4.5 million copies of its game that had been illegally downloaded via BitTorrent....