Look out, Zynga — DeNA is dominating Japan’s mobile social games market
Move over Zynga. There’s a new social game company in town. Japanese mobile games portal DeNA just reported its quarterly results which show the...
Indie developer Bolt Creative strikes gold with “Pocket God” app
Bolt Creative announced today that its best-selling god simulator, Pocket God, has sold over three million units since release. We previously wrote a case...
Activision Blizzard sees online revenues exceed retail game sales for first time
Activision Blizzard reported higher net income but lower-than-expected revenue for the second fiscal quarter as it cut expenses but launched fewer game titles in...
Digital game transition drives a reorg at Namco Bandai’s U.S. operations
Namco Bandai said it is combining its two game divisions in the U.S. as part of a push to expand its presence in the...
Cavia: A Brief Retrospective
I somehow missed a sad bit of news last week: cavia [sic] ceased to be a going concern. Happily, most of the developers are still employed, as it sounds like the majority of the studio's employees were absorbed into parent company AQ Interactive.
Image Metrics acquires FacePro to let gamers lip-sync for their lives
Facial animation firm Image Metrics is announcing today that it has acquired FacePro to make lip-synching services for video games and movies more affordable....
News Blips: Torchlight 2, Mass Effect 3, Syndicate Trademark Filing, and More
A moment of silence for our mouse buttons, please; Torchlight 2's impending arrival heralds a new dawn of button-mashing for dungeon-crawling gamers. News Blips:...
What Can Twitter Reveal About Gamers’ Collective Unconscious?
Editor's note: Joe uses a pretty infographic of game-related tweets to propose a weighty theory about why we play games. What do you conclusions...
Video Blips: Fable 3, Commander, DJ Hero 2, and More
Time takes its toll in Fable 3, most notably in the form of heightened technology and the presence of disobediant poultry. Video Blips: •...
Enjoying the Unpredictability of Open-World Games
Editor's note: Richard takes a humorous look at the lighter side of glitching. I have to agree; sometimes a broken bit of code can...