GCube Capital loses two partners, shifts investment strategy
GCube Ventures drew a lot of attention when we wrote about them last August as an investment fund that would focus on the game...
Digital River and Playxpert to co-market e-commerce inside games
Digital River and Playxpert are pitching a tool for game developers to build e-commerce solutions inside their game worlds. The two companies are combining...
Bigfoot Networks launches second-generation gaming network card
Bigfoot Networks is launching the second-generation of its gaming network card for PCs to deal with the problem of lag. Lag is the problem...
iPhone game developer Ngmoco raises second round of funding
The iPhone game publisher Ngmoco is announcing today that it has raised $10 million in a second round of funding — in its ninth...
Game Developers Conference preview
The Game Developers Conference kicks off Monday with a week-long series of events in San Francisco. The main conference runs Wednesday through Friday, but...
GameStop’s Bob McKenzie sees little recession impact on gamers
Bob McKenzie, senior vice president of merchandising at specialty videogame retailer GameStop, was on hand for the official launch last week of Capcom’s Resident...
iPhone game developers rejoice at Apple’s latest update plans
There were a lot of happy game developers among the 200 or so people who attended Thursday’s iGames Summit in San Francisco, which was...
February U.S. game sales slow to 10 percent, but growth rate still up
The game industry is humming along. The U.S. video game industry grew 10 percent in February, slower than a month before but still enviable...
Aurora Feint to share iPhone social networking tools with game developers
Aurora Feint has managed to produce some of the most popular games on the iPhone. Today, it’s going to share some of what it’s...
GamesBeat 09 spotlight: Zeebo launching low-cost game console for developing worlds
The big three game console makers rarely ship their next-generation machines to the developing world, where problems such as game piracy and pricing are...