That screeching sound? U.S. video game industry sales decline in 2009
U.S. video game sales screeched to a halt in 2009, falling 8.6 percent to $20.2 billion from $22.11 billion as the recession held gamers...
Game venture capitalist and Electronic Arts trade barbs
Mitch Lasky sold his mobile entertainment business, Jamdat Mobile, to Electronic Arts for $680 million in late 2005. He left the company a year...
Booyah’s MyTown steams ahead in location-based gaming with 450,000 users
Booyah, the mobile gaming company full of alums from Blizzard Entertainment, just rocketed ahead in the world of location-based gaming. Their MyTown app, which...
Venture capitalists are bullish on the future of game funding
Game investing is still going strong, even though it did take a hit during the recession. We calculated that game companies raised $600.5 million...
SGN promotes COO to CEO role to lead mobile gaming expansion
SGN, one of the top game publishers on the iPhone, has given its chief executive title to No. 2 executive Randy Breen. Founder Shervin...
Storytelling and Acting: Both Can Make or Break a Game
Editor’s note: Ben shares his thoughts on the synergy between storytelling and acting in video games. Acting can elevate a game with a sub-par...
AMD’s latest mainstream graphics chips could snatch market share from Nvidia
Nvidia is taking its time getting its new graphics chip, code-named Fermi to market. Meanwhile, Advanced Micro Devices launched its latest graphics chip in...
Gran Turismo’s creator takes a fifth stab at a perfect racing game
Kazunori Yamauchi is the creator and producer of the Gran Turismo racing games on Sony’s PlayStation game consoles. The new game is launching soon,...
Dragon Age: How the Realness of Character and Story Entrap the Player
Editor’s note: One of my favorite aspects of Dragon Age: Origins is its treatment of characters. As in Baldur’s Gate 2 and Star Wars:...
Exercise Bike + Xbox 360 = Healthy Gaming
So, it’s Wednesday evening, and you’re sitting and playing video games on your couch. Despite having set a new year’s resolution to lose weight,...