Categories Posted inin Business Big Fish Games partners with Woman’s Day magazine Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 20, 2010 1 min Jeremy Lewis, chief executive of Big Fish Games, is turning out to be quite the ladies’ man. Lewis’ company continues to target its casual...
Categories Posted inin Business Oberon’s Blaze platform to burn down walls between social and casual games Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 20, 2010 2 min Oberon Media is launching its Blaze platform today to allow casual game publishers to spread their social games to any platform. The aim is...
Categories Posted inin Business Microsoft to sell Kinect motion-sensing system for $149 Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 20, 2010 2 min Confirming earlier rumors, Microsoft said today it will start selling its Kinect motion-sensing system for the Xbox 360 on Nov. 4 for $149. Kinect,...
Categories Posted inin Business With more than 1M users, Raptr formally launches social network for gamers Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 20, 2010 3 min Raptr has more than a million users of its gamer social network, which has been in testing for more than two years. So now...
Categories Posted inin Business Offerpal launches SocialKast to recruit social game fans on any site Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 20, 2010 1 min Offerpal Media got stung last week when it was told it wouldn’t be providing special ad offers for Facebook’s new Facebook Credits virtual currency...
Categories Posted inin Business New iPhone Game Teaches You How to Bartend Posted byby GamesBeat July 20, 2010 3 min Editor's note: I thought about retitling this one as New Game Promises to Rot Brain, Liver, but then I chickened out. -Demian Nimble Strong:...
Categories Posted inin Business Arkadium partners up with GSN as it pushes further into games on Facebook Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 20, 2010 2 min There’s a big pot of gold awaiting casual game publishers who properly adapt their games to Facebook. Online casual game maker Arkadium is making...
Categories Posted inin Business Big Fish Games hits 1 billion downloads of its casual games Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 19, 2010 1 min Big Fish Games said today its users have downloaded more than 1 billion copies of its casual games from its web portal. That’s a...
Categories Posted inin Technology MindJolt’s DeWolfe explains plans for a rollup in social games Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 19, 2010 3 min Chris DeWolfe is the man who founded MySpace and made it a social networking sensation, beating out Friendster and becoming the biggest social network...
Categories Posted inin Business Sony’s alliance with Codename to generate new games for Sony Home virtual world Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 19, 2010 2 min Sony is announcing a deal with indie video-game label Codename to bring a series of independently developed social video games to the Sony Home...