Categories Posted inin Business Fear Not the Pen Posted byby GamesBeat February 4, 2010 6 min Editor’s note: Brian shares with us how he gained confidence as a writer. It’s a moving piece, and I hope it inspires those of...
Categories Posted inin Business Kwedit lets kids use cash to pay for online games, buy virtual goods Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 4, 2010 3 min There are lots of people — teens in particular — who don’t have bank accounts or credit cards with which to pay for online...
Categories Posted inin Business Did THQ CEO spill the beans on Sony’s PlayStation Arc name? Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 4, 2010 1 min Sony is most certainly not going to call its new wand-like game control device a “Sony Motion Controller.” That has been the placeholder name...
Categories Posted inin Technology Booyah’s MyTown: New king of location games at 800,000 users? Posted byby GamesBeat February 4, 2010 2 min Booyah’s MyTown, a mobile game that’s like Monopoly for the real world, has zoomed past 800,000 users and is accumulating 3.5 to 4 million...
Categories Posted inin Business With strong Darksiders launch, THQ shows January game sales are off to good start Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 3, 2010 3 min THQ has struggled as a mid-tier company in the video game industry. But its third fiscal quarter earnings report today shows that there’s life...
Categories Posted inin Business Obama forges ahead on nuclear as leaks, risks come to light Posted byby GamesBeat February 3, 2010 3 min The debate over nuclear energy is heating up again. While many argue that it’s unsafe, just as many people see it as the only...
Categories Posted inin Business BioShock 2 trailer will whet your appetite for horror game (video) Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 3, 2010 2 min BioShock 2 debuts on Feb. 9 and it’s looking like it will be one of the blockbuster video games of 2010. The mature-rated horror...
Categories Posted inin Business Global game unit sales fall 8 percent in 2009 Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 3, 2010 2 min Unit sales of video games in three major territories fell 8 percent in 2009, thanks to the recession. Total unit sales in the United...
Categories Posted inin Business Announcing four new speakers at GamesBeat@GDC; Early bird pricing ends soon Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 3, 2010 4 min We’re delighted to reveal more about our plans for the next GamesBeat conference, which is all about how social games and mobile are disrupting...
Categories Posted inin Business CO-OP Live: It’s Coming! (Next Week) Posted byby GamesBeat February 3, 2010 4 min CO-OP Show fans may have seen this announcement already, but here’s the part where we spill our guts on all the details. Can we...