Categories Posted inin Business Zynga acquires 13th new company — er, hires two guys Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 9, 2011 1 min Social game maker Zynga announced today that it has hired two new employees who created the cocos2d iPhone open source project. The new employees...
Categories Posted inin Business Nvidia acquires Icera mobile wireless chip maker for $367M Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 9, 2011 3 min Updated with internal memo: Moving deeper into mobile chips, Nvidia said it has agreed to buy mobile wireless chip design firm Icera for $367...
Categories Posted inin Business Reviews Spotlight: Osama bin Laden, Thor, Age of Empires, and Monster Tale Posted byby GamesBeat May 9, 2011 2 min Are you curious to know what Thor and Osama bin Laden have in common? Can you explain why publisher Majestic publishes good games that...
Categories Posted inin Business How much will Activision say about new Call of Duty on Monday? Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 8, 2011 2 min Activision Blizzard has been launching a new Call of Duty game every November for the past few years. So gamers are getting anxious about...
Categories Posted inin Business Sniping in Section 8: Prejudice makes running away even more important Posted byby GamesBeat May 8, 2011 2 min Something about sniping just makes my heart all warm and fuzzy. Perhaps it's the thrill of toying with the virtual life of an enemy...
Categories Posted inin Technology Week in review: PlayStation Network outage continues Posted byby GamesBeat May 7, 2011 2 min Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories that VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Sony in...
Categories Posted inin Business Instant video game lets you kill bin Laden yourself Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 7, 2011 2 min Kuma Games has created a new episode of its reality-based video game KumaWar where you can kill Osama bin Laden yourself. Based on publicly...
Categories Posted inin Business Sony’s PlayStation Network hack attack repair bill: $1.6 million or $1.25 billion? Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 7, 2011 2 min Video game fans aren’t the only ones waiting for Sony to say more about the PlayStation Network’s woes. Wall Street is getting a little...
Categories Posted inin Business Personal details on 2,500 Sony users appear on web site; Sony removes them Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 7, 2011 2 min Personal details of 2,500 Sony users were posted to a web site by hackers. Those people were among the Sony users whose identity was...
Categories Posted inin Business Restoring PlayStation Network taking Sony longer than it thought Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 7, 2011 2 min Sony’s restoration of its PlayStation Network online game service is taking longer than it thought. The company had hoped to have the system up...