Playdom CEO John Pleasants: why "social gaming" will die
John Pleasants is in the spotlight as chief executive of Playdom, the third-largest social game publisher on Facebook and the No. 1 game publisher...
Starcraft II could generate $350M in sales this year
Game maker Blizzard Entertainment is preparing to release the much anticipated StarCraft II on July 27, and many gamers are salivating over the title,...
Norwest’s Tim Chang dissects the social game landscape (videos)
Tim Chang, a principal at Norwest Venture Partners, is one of the top venture capitalists following the social game market. At the Casual Connect...
Casual games expand in new directions at Seattle conference (photo gallery)
Casual Connect is one of the most interesting conferences in video games now because the social and mobile game companies have crashed the party...
Satire at Dawn: Deathspank Versus the Game Industry
Editor’s note: This look at the humor of Deathspank is probably as close to a review as anything I’ve ever promoted to the front...
Is Disney ready to buy social game company Playdom for more than $600M?
Rumors have surfaced that Disney is in the process of negotiating to buy social game company Playdom for more than $600 million. Techcrunch reported...
News Blips: FPS Interest Dwindling, Digital Game Sales, Non-Stop Gaming Record, and More
With the appeal of first-person shooters fading, I can finally climb to the top of the ranks in the now-empty Bad Company 2 leaderboards!...
Best Xbox360 Racing Game:Burnout Revenge
Burnout is by far more fun than any other racing game, basically for the fact that it is more arcade style of a game, no realism to be found here. Realism may be fun for some people, but it's usually for people who know all about cars, you know eats drinks and breaths cars.
What Problem With Games Journalism? Part 2
(This article continues a conversation began in Part 1 of this series, which you may read here.) Jim Sterling, another one of Ben Paddon’s...
Who Is the Gaming Press Speaking To?
Editor’s note: After looking at a recent Nielsen report, Dennis brings up some surprising questions about the games press, such as: Do readers even...