Is the game market generating $100B per year in revenues?
Recent estimates value the global games business somewhere in the range of $50 billion. But if you factor in the booming online gaming sector...
The Geekbox — Episode 80
The Geekbox — Episode 80 (2010-08-25) Wherein we discuss new faces, unemployment, World of Warcraft malaise, Starcraft 2, the secret history of Ryan Scott...
Outspark confirms it is in deal talks, but can’t confirm Shanda rumor
Outspark, a massively multiplayer online game publisher that brings Asian games to the U.S., confirmed it is in talks about being acquired. But the...
Realtimes Worlds’ former employees lash out at management of failed game studio
Realtime Worlds, creator of the online game All Points Bulletin, filed for bankruptcy protection last week. After the virtual dissolution of the company last...
The Control Pad: An Extension of Our Hands
Editor's note: Sometimes, when I've been playing a game for an hour or two, it almost feels like the controller disappears. I think this...
Playboy unwraps its online game plans with Bigpoint
Apparently, running pictures of naked women on its web site isn’t a big enough draw for Playboy Enterprises. Now the company is going to...
Google loses its games evangelist after just four months
Google has been acting like it’s going to move into the social gaming space for months now. But it’s not clear how serious we...
Digital Chocolate claims in Zynga lawsuit it owns Mafia Wars name
Casual gaming company Digital Chocolate has sued social gaming market leader Zynga, alleging that Digital Chocolate has the exclusive rights to the name Mafia...
Social game maker CrowdStar battles Zynga in Japan with Drecom deal
Japan mobile social network market is becoming a new battleground where American social game companies will slug it out. Social gaming firm CrowdStar is...
Website builder DevHub gets users hooked by “gamifying” its service
Gamification is a hot buzz word these days. It means taking the mechanics of games and what makes them fun and then applying them...