Google+ scores Digital Chocolate’s Gangs of Boomtown as an exclusive social game
Digital Chocolate is launching its new social game Gangs of Boomtown as an exclusive title for Google+. The title is the third that Digital...
Join Dean Takahashi’s live interview on Spreecast at 2:30 pm PST
Join Dean Takahashi as he does an interview with Zaw Thet on Spreecast today at 2:30 pm. Zaw and Dean will talk about what...
Lumines Electronic Symphony is the most enjoyable epileptic seizure you’ll ever have (review)
Lumines was developed by Q Entertainment, a Japanese game studio founded by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the mind behind Space Channel 5, Rez, and more recently,...
With Valentines over, it’s time to move on to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s latest map
With Valentines Day over, it’s time to get back to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Activision Blizzard is launching a new map this...
Ubisoft ships 13M dance games and 7M copies of Assassin Creed title
French video game publisher Ubisoft reported today that it shipped more than 13 million dance games and 7 million copies of Assassin’s Creed Revelations...
Zynga’s hybrid zCloud lets it get rid of two out of every three servers
Social game maker Zynga has shifted 80 percent of its game traffic to its own private data center servers, known as the zCloud, the company revealed yesterday...
MXP4 and Mobile Roadie take social music games to mobile devices (exclusive)
MXP4 and Mobile Roadie have partnered to take social music games to mobile devices. Under the partnership, MXP4’s Bopler Games social music games will...
Prince of Persia creator returns to games with remake of Karateka
After a stint in film, Jordan Mechner, a legendary game developer who created The Prince of Persia blockbuster video game series, is coming back...
Zynga teams up with Slingo to publish Bingo-slot-machine hybrid game on Facebook
Zynga has teamed up with cross-media gaming firm Slingo Inc. to create a new version of the casual game Slingo on Facebook. Slingo is...
Competitive RPG Components
Competitive RPGs take a few different forms. The newer variant is Defense of the Ancients, which is characterized by picking from a pool of characters and leveling it up over the course of a single round.