News Blips: Amazon’s game download service, new Wii drops GameCube support, Zynga’s “mass market” MMORPG, and more
As much as I'm loving my first playthrough of God of War 3, I suppose it would be a good idea to take a...
More kids are playing games thanks to rise of smartphones and tablets
More kids are playing video games between the ages of 2 and 17, according to a new market research report. The NPD Group reported...
Zynga’s Project Z connects your Facebook friends on Zynga’s own social gaming site
Social gaming giant Zynga is breaking away from Facebook and other social networking sites by building its own independent website with Project Z. The...
Zynga launches a broadside of 10 new social and mobile games
Zynga is announcing 10 new social games today, , showing off the firepower of the company recent acquisitions of game development talent. To date,...
Zynga launches three HTML5 games to run on mobile browsers
As part of a big game platform Zynga is announcing today, the company is launching three new titles that will run across platforms and...
Preview: Assassin’s Creed Revelations takes plenty of creative risks (video)
Assassin’s Creed Revelations takes a lot of creative risks, considering it is the fourth installment in a video game series that has sold more...
Striiv to start selling its fun fitness gadget on TV shopping network
Striiv, the startup that is trying to make fitness fun,will begin selling its fitness gadget through TV shopping network HSN starting Oct. 22. The...
Replay Games shoots for nostalgia with Leisure Suit Larry revival
Leisure Suit Larry was a tacky video game series that debuted in 1987, chronicling the failed attempts of Larry Laffer, the world’s least successful lover,...
Non-Facebook social games to hit $5.6B in revenue by 2014
Facebook isn’t the only platform where social games are booming. Revenue from non-Facebook social games is expected to grow from the current amount of...
Zynga launches its first true sequel, Mafia Wars 2
Social game maker Zynga has launched a number of uber-popular games over the past couple of years, but today we’re seeing it launch its...