Emerging markets will spend billions on games this year
Gamers are expected to spend billions of dollars in emerging markets this year such as Brazil, Mexico and Russia, according to market researcher Newzoo, based in...
Fishy business: The real story of an App Store clone war
Radical Fishing isn’t much to look at. Even its creators, Jan Willem Nijman and Rami Ismail, admit that their development focus was primarily on...
Global ad spending in video games to top $7.2B in 2016
The global market for ads in video games is expected to grow from $3.1 billion in 2010 to $7.2 billion in 2016. Market researcher...
Why aren’t sports video games like Friday Night Lights?
I've heard rumblings about this for several years now, about how it's one of the best shows of the past ten years, possibly ever. But I was always hesitant to check it out, because of a few words people kept repeating – "it's a football show".
Idle Games helps you find new friends in social games
Social gaming company Idle Games launched its first social game, Idle Worship, today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco. Idle Worship...
GameStop preps gaming tablet and game streaming service
GameStop, the world’s biggest game retailer, announced today it has begun working on a GameStop branded gaming tablet. And last week, the company said...
Angry Birds hits 350M downloads, more films and media coming
Gamers have downloaded game developer Rovio’s Angry Birds, a popular iPhone slingshot-style game franchise, more than 350 million times, the company’s general manager Andrew Stalbow...
Argentina’s MetroGames launches Coco Girl fashion game on Facebook
Argentina’s MetroGames is launching is its its Coco Girl fashion game on Facebook today. The new game is a big departure from the title the company launched...
Badgeville adds social fabric analysis to its gamification suite
Gamification company Badgeville has made a big splash in the past year by helping web sites better engage visitors through game-like features such as leaderboards...
BringIt launches head-to-head challenges in Facebook mini games (exclusive)
BringIt builds mini games inside Facebook games to encourage players to buy and spend virtual currency. Today, it is adding the ability for players...