EA hands out early sports game access to ‘Season Ticket’ buyers
Game publisher Electronic Arts today unveiled the “EA Sports Season Ticket” program, a yearly subscription that gives gamers early access to sports titles and...
Overwolf launches social overlay for online games
Overwolf is announcing the beta version of its social gaming client for overlaying social media on top of existing online games. The Overwolf Client...
Ansca Mobile’s LaunchPad will help app developers with discovery
Ansca Mobile has enabled a lot of developers to create their own iPhone and Android games via its Corona software development kit. But in...
How The Internet (Sort Of) Ruined Gaming For Me
As soon as a freshly announced game catches my eye, I always read and watch everything I can find about it. I know all...
DreamBox aces test: study shows edutainment program boosts exam scores
Maybe games can teach kids something after all. A study released today by SRI International shows that DreamBox Learning, the education startup that Netflix...
How Nintendo tries (and fails) to be like Apple
It's become increasingly apparent that Nintendo wants to replicate Apple's approach to product cycles. Both companies tweak a product slightly on a regular basis,...
Q&A: Amazon’s Appstore for Android is selling lots of games
Amazon wants to sell anything physical or digital. Almost four months ago, the company opened its Amazon Appstore for Android to provide some competition...
Zynga brings Words With Friends to Facebook
Social gaming company Zynga today announced that it is bringing its mobile Scrabble-like game Words With Friends to Facebook. That means players on Android...
Gaming pays off: Blizzard unveils Diablo 3 auction system featuring real currency
World of Warcraft maker Blizzard Entertainment today unveiled an auction system for selling in-game items for real-world currency in its latest multiplayer game, Diablo...
PayPal: 12M monthly users are paying for virtual goods (updated)
More than 12 million unique users pay for virtual goods each month, according to data released for the first time today by digital payments...