Categories Posted inin Technology Interview with Epic Games’ Mike Capps, on teaming up with Electronic Arts Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 15, 2008 7 min Mike Capps, president of hit video game developer Epic Games announced today that Electronic Arts will publish a new action game from Epic’s new...
Categories Posted inin Technology China’s Internet cafes still crucial to online video game growth Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 15, 2008 1 min China’s Internet cafes are still critical to the growth of the online video game industry in that country, according to a report by market...
Categories Posted inin Technology July video game numbers show Nintendo way out ahead, Sony edging out Microsoft Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 15, 2008 2 min The July U.S. video game sales numbers show that Nintendo is way out ahead but Sony has beaten Microsoft yet again in the battle...
Categories Posted inin Technology Electronic Arts signs a couple of key developers: Epic Games and Grasshopper Manufacture Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 14, 2008 2 min Expanding its push into high-quality game talent, Electronic Arts has signed up two new game development firms to produce future titles. The partners include...
Categories Posted inin Technology Q&A: an interview with Sega’s Simon Jeffery on monkeying around with iPhone games and the Wii Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 14, 2008 8 min Simon Jeffery is the president of Sega of America. He joined the U.S. arm of the Japanese publisher, famous for games such as Sonic...
Categories Posted inin Technology Blizzard cuts deal with NetEase.com to take Starcraft II to China Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 13, 2008 2 min The original “StarCraft” is one of the most successful video games of all time. The sci-fi real-time strategy game debuted more than a decade...
Categories Posted inin Technology AMD takes the single-card speed crown from Nvidia with dual-graphics card Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 12, 2008 2 min Tipping the see-saw battle yet again in the battle for the hearts of hardcore PC gamers, Advanced Micro Devices is announcing a PC graphics...
Categories Posted inin Technology Wicked Interactive will launch online games from Korean publisher Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 11, 2008 1 min Online game companies are coming out of the woodworks. One strategy is to take the newly popular “free to play” model from Asia and...
Categories Posted inin Technology Knowledge Adventure raises $5 million to make jump from kids games to virtual worlds Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 11, 2008 2 min Plenty of companies are making the shift from video games to virtual worlds. Knowledge Adventure is the latest as it announced today it has...
Categories Posted inin Technology Nvidia encourages new generation of visual computing startups Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 6, 2008 3 min I can remember the first interview I did with Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, back when the company was coming out of stealth...