English-language “free-to-play” online games will rake in $2B by 2015
With the growing popularity of free-to-play games on the PC, a new study from game market analyst DFC Intelligence reports that the English language...
PapayaMobile launches Android App of the Day
If you thought that getting apps noticed was tough on the iPhone, it’s even harder on Android phones. That’s why PapayaMobile is unveiling its...
Review: StarCraft II will keep PC gamers busy for months
If you’ve noticed a drop in productivity among your workers lately, you might trace it back to the July 27 launch of StarCraft II:...
Spil Games throws its weight behind HTML5 for mobile Web games
Spil Games operates Web game portals that reach more than 130 million users. So it’s interesting that the company is adopting the HTML5 standard...
What Is This? — Explaining Bayonetta to a Skeptical Girlfriend
Editor's note: Sometimes we forget that some games are just plain old crazy. Heck, some of you out there have convinced yourselves that the...
What Problem With Games Journalism? Part 4
Editor's note: And this is why we have Bitmob (read to the end to find out what I mean by that). -Shoe (This article...
Dear Sony: I Want to Want a Playstation 3
My youth was spent with the bitter tears that only a child who wants a PlayStation but only owns Nintendo consoles can cry. It...
Casual game site Miniclip expands into mobile games
Miniclip has grown its audience of casual gamers on the web to more than 57 million users in the past decade. Now the Neuchatel,...
Google pushes further into social networking, buys SocialDeck
In its effort to challenge Facebook, Google has become a social butterfly. The latest proof of that is Google’s acquisition today of SocialDeck, a...
Microsoft ups XBox Live subscription price by $10 a year
The cost of streaming Netflix, accessing social networks and playing games online on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console will go up beginning Nov. 1,...