Outfit7’s talking-animal apps hit 60M downloads on App Store
Angry Birds isn’t the only animal game selling like crazy on the App Store. Outfit7‘s Talking Tom Cat and other titles in the Talking...
Reviews Spotlight: Kane and Lynch, Ghost Trick, and Homelessness
This week's Reviews Spotlight takes a turn for the surreal, as we investigate the lives of chain-smoking children, balding bank robbers, and stylish ghosts....
The constant failure of in-game missions
Few things irritate me more than fetch missions. In fact, the act of fetching isn’t the problem; the implementation is what bothers me. Take...
A Core Gamer Appraises Angry Birds
I tried to convince myself that I don't play games like Angry Birds. It's for "casual" gamers, I argued to myself. I could...
Trade-in anxiety: Parting is such sweet sorrow
Hello, my name is Matt Polen, and I have a problem: I’m deathly afraid of trading in games. Certain games I will simply never...
Week in review: Eighth grader tops Angry Birds in the App Store
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories published by VentureBeat in the last seven days: Eighth...
Death is only the beginning in Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
The main character of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective dies. That's not a spoiler. Sissel is dead when the game begins, but he lives on...
Gamification gets popular, but it’s still finding its feet
Gamification, or using game mechanics in non-game applications, is the new black. It has become fashionable as game designers turn their talents from creating...
Duke Nukem Forever finally gets a release date — 14 years and 2 companies later
The rumors of the king’s demise were greatly exaggerated. First-person shooter Duke Nukem Forever, one of the most iconic vaporware titles of all time,...
Zynga dials Area/Code game studio for an acquisition
Zynga, creator of the hit games FarmVille and CityVille, has acquired the indie game studio Area/Code for an undisclosed price. The deal is Zynga’s...