Omar Hamoui’s Churn Labs creates Gnonstop Gnomes
Omar Hamoui sold AdMob to Google in 2009 for $750 million. Now he’s back — with gnomes. The Gnonstop Gnomes social app is the...
Fail states: To live and die in L.A. Noire…and Bumpy Road
A confession, first: for a video-game hobbyist of some 22-odd years, I am terrible at them. I can count the number of games I...
Tapulous launches Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Revenge app for the iPhone
Disney’s Tapulous mobile game division has launched Born This Way Revenge, a music-tapping game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app is one...
Support GameDay 2011!
GameDay 2011, a fundraiser put together by gamers who support the International Video Game Hall of Fame and Museum, will take place during Memorial...
Can e-sports be bigger than golf? (Q&A)
Justin.tv, a site that lets web browsers watch and publish live video streams, started recruiting additional developers to build an exclusive electronic sports live-streaming...
Innovative games are “broken” for a reason
When I look at a game like Brink with its arguably ground-breaking potential buried beneath a thick layer of technical issues like bugs, glitches,...
BioShock Infinite team previews next big innovation in gaming
Irrational Games, which has established its reputation as one of the most creative game studios in the industry, is slowly revealing some of the...
Social game leader CrowdStar raises $23M
Social game leader CrowdStar has raised $23 million in a first round of funding led by Intel Capital and Time Warner Investments. The company...
How EA’s John Riccitiello sees the past few years of struggle
Like many seasoned executives, Electronic Arts chief executive John Riccitiello believes that learning from failure is essential to success. He said so in a...
Sony’s PlayStation Network outage costs $171M
Sony said that the cost of the PlayStation Network’s almost month-long outage after being attacked by hackers will be around 14 billion yen, or...