Newsweek’s N’gai Croal crosses line from critic to game design advisor
Think of N’gai Croal as the game industry’s version of movie critic Roger Ebert, with dreadlocks. As the game critic at Newsweek magazine and...
DEMO: SmartyCard lets kids learn stuff and earn stuff
SmartyCard has a smart way to get kids to learn via its reward-based quizzing approach. The company, which is showing off the service at...
DEMO: Coveroo lets you personalize your cell phones with laser imagery
At DEMO today, Coveroo is launching a service to personalize cell phones and other gadgets with laser imagery. Now you can have anything from...
AMD divides itself in two, hoping to gang up on Intel
After a couple of years of preparation, Advanced Micro Devices is finally going to split itself in two today in the belief that competing...
GamesBeat 09 preview: Veteran VC Tim Chang on what’s hot, what’s not in game investments
Game and virtual world investments soared to $885 million in 2008, but the picture is likely to be a mixed one this year. Games...
Sony’s game leadership goes full circle
Sony chief executive Howard Stringer shook up the ranks today with a management reorganization. He took over the president’s job held by Ryoji Chubachi...
UBS orders $31 billion in Capcom stock, then cancels it, citing error
Here’s a ridiculous story for a Friday afternoon. Swiss banking giant UBS placed a $31 billion, or 3 trillion yen, order for convertible bonds...
Vicious Cycle releases new tool to make it easier to do cheaper cross-platform games
Game engines may not be sexy to talk about, but they are useful tools. They provide developers with a platform upon which they can...
GeoEye’s satellite data used in UbiSoft’s new Tom Clancy game, H.A.W.X
GeoEye spent about $100 million sending a satellite into the sky so that you could see realistic ground imagery in a new Tom Clancy...
Management turns over at casual game publisher PlayFirst
PlayFirst, one of the leaders in casual game publishing, announced today that it has appointed a new chief executive and chief financial officer. Mari...