EA’s No. 2 exec shares five tips to avoid the game industry’s mess
When John Schappert returned to Electronic Arts in the middle of 2009 to become the video game giant’s chief operating officer, he walked into...
Nexon keeps growing as free-to-play games take off (video)
For the better part of a decade, Korea’s Nexon has been making online games that users can start playing for free. If they want,...
FarmVille takes home a prize and changes an industry
Cultural change happens slowly. Unless, of course, you’re talking about the pace at which social games are sweeping through the video game industry. In...
Guess Who: Round Fourteen
By now, y’all should know the rules for our weekly head-scratcher Guess Who. But if you don’t remember, it’s okay, because, well, I didn’t...
Mobile game maker Moblyng closes $1M round
Moblyng began life as FlipTrack in 2007. The Redwood City, California-based startup began by porting Flash slideshows to mobile platforms, sort of like Slide....
Zynga’s chief designer shares tips learned from social games
Zynga has become the envy of the video game industry because it has so many users for its Facebook games. So Brian Reynolds, chief...
Despite a couple of bad moves, Activision Blizzard CEO says he runs a kindly mothership for game developers
Bobby Kotick, chief executive of Activision Blizzard, runs the biggest independent video game development company in the world. Some people have taken potshots at...
OnLive shows live demo of its games on demand service
Steve Perlman has been talking about OnLive, his potentially disruptive games on demand service for about a year. Today, at the Dice Summit in...
Beyond Facebook: How social games terrify traditional game makers but will lead us to gaming everywhere
Facebook is truly shaking up the traditional video game market and the responses from the industry range from panic to visions of a new...
FarmVille, Mafia Wars maker Zynga is worth $3 billion, says trading site SharesPost
Games company Zynga, developer of the runaway hits Farmville and Mafia Wars, hasn’t filed for an IPO yet. So we don’t know for sure...