EA acquires mobile game developer Bight Games
Electronic Arts attempted to bolster its mobile and casual game business today by acquiring Bight Games, a maker of indie mobile games. Bight has...
How Funzio’s Crime City shot to the top of the App Store
When a game shoots to the top of the Top Grossing list in Apple’s App Store, that’s probably a sign that it’s a good...
Making an Accessible Fighting Game
While fighters are indeed thriving in the game industry (all versions of Capcom's Street Fighter IV have sold almost 6 million units to date) and are supported by dedicated fans, the genre still proves to be intimidating for new players to get into.
Gameforge hits 300M worldwide users for online games
Gameforge said today that it has hit 300 million registered users for its downloadable online games. That milestone establishes Gameforge, a pioneer in free-to-play...
Will Facebook games become faster and richer?
The problem with Facebook as a game platform is that most of the games running on it are slow. For hardcore gamers, as well...
Blue Mars Lite takes 3D avatars to Google Street View
Virtual worlds have had a tough time adapting to the popularity of social networks. Blue Mars, a gorgeous 3D virtual world created by Avatar...
Hands-on preview of Gears of War 3: an epic story with closure
Gears of War 3 from Epic Games will be one of the game industry’s early seasonal blockbusters when the third-person shooter game debuts on Microsoft’s Xbox...
Gears of War 3 producer describes the end to an epic series (video)
Gears of War 3 debuts on Sept. 20. It will bring to a close the trilogy of sci-fi games that started in 2006 and...
Russia’s I-Jet Media launches new social game platform (exclusive)
Russian game company I-Jet Media is launching a new platform for social games today at the GDC Europe game conference in Germany. Dubbed I-Jet...
God of War: Origins Collection snaps the neck of ugliness
I'll be honest: My eyes glaze over when developers sell games using technical jargon. Phrases such as "camera focal plane compensation" and "near-screen fading"...