Social gaming firm CrowdStar moves into Russian market
CrowdStar is living up to its strategic expansion plan as it announces today that it will launch its hit game It Girl on three...
News Blips: Blizzard stumped over Diablo 3 backlash, Steam doesn’t get Battlefield 3, Vita delayed to 2012, and more
Blizzard's reasoning behind storing all Diablo 3 character data on its servers is for added stability. Either that, or it wants an easy way...
Video Blips: Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team, Sine Mora, Rise of Nightmares, and more
Sure, we've all seen the common "bad-ass space marine" trope of science-fiction games, but the crew cuts of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team's marines sport...
Facebook core-games maker Kixeye raises $18M
Kixeye, a developer of social games on Facebook for core gamers, announced today that it has raised $18 million in its third round of...
One of gaming’s best startups, Bungie, turns 20
Bungie is one of the most successful game startups in history, although the company was obscure for the first 10 years of its existence,...
Rift developer Trion picks up games vet to head third-party publishing
Trion Worlds, the developer behind massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Rift, announced today that it has hired games industry veteran David Luehmann to...
Bitmob Writing Challenge August 2011: The importance of game settings
So much writing pertains to gameplay, characters, and other tangible elements of video games, but what about something that's right in front of our...
Gameforge founder creates Flaregames gaming startup (exclusive)
Klaas Kersting, the founder of the highly successful Gameforge online game firm in Europe, is back with a new gaming startup called Flaregames, VentureBeat has...
Nexon invests in social gaming firm 6waves Lolapps (exclusive)
South Korean online gaming powerhouse Nexon has invested in social gaming firm 6waves Lolapps, VentureBeat has learned. The investment, which is expected to be...
World of Warcraft subscribers fall for second straight quarter
The number of active subscribers for Blizzard Entertainment’s most popular online game, World of Warcraft, fell in the second quarter of 2011, the second...