Mig33 launches mobile social game platform for feature phones
Mobile community Mig33 has brought together 40 million registered users on humble feature phones around the world. They play games, socialize, and browse the...
Following in FarmVille’s footsteps, LOLapps takes a game beyond Facebook
LOLapps got knocked for a loop last month when Facebook abruptly shut down all of the company’s apps, which collectively draw more than 100...
BringIt raises $1.5M, helps RockYou generate revenue by putting a game inside a game
If you want to increase your revenue for a social game, you can put a game inside an existing game. That’s what BringIt, a...
Adknowledge grabs a senior exec from Yahoo to build next-generation ad targeting platform
Adknowledge is announcing today that it has hired former Yahoo executive Usama Fayyad as its chief scientist. His job will be to help the...
News Blips: Schwarzenegger v. EMA Oral Arguments, Black Ops Contest, and More
Is it just me, or are the current Supreme Court hearings for Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association a lot like a Dungeons & Dragons...
Video Blips: GoldenEye 007, Blood Stone, Ghost of Sparta, and More
A double helping of the world's most well-known super spy kicks off November's lineup of blockbuster titles with GoldenEye 007 and James Bond 007:...
How Three Indie Platformers Out-Designed Blockbuster Titles
2010 still has two months to go, but already I’m starting to contemplate my pick for game of the year. Right now, three of...
EA’s loss narrows, but it still needs bigger hits
Electronic Arts said that cost-cutting helped narrow its losses and make up for a big drop in revenue in its second fiscal quarter ended...
Casual-game maker OMGPOP pulls in funding; proves social games are still hot
Let’s take a break from all the serious discussion about violent video games for a second and look at casual games startup OMGPOP, which...
When Not to Read Video-Game Reviews
Video game reviews dominated my early years. I read GamePro and EGM from the readers’ artwork in the front to the Game Genie codes at the back. I...