PlayerAuctions sets up exchange for digital assets in online games
PlayerAuctions, a startup backed by a big Korean company, launched its digital asset exchange for online games today. The company is tapping into the...
Women’s TV network Lifetime buys Korean teen dress-up game site Roiworld
Lifetime Networks, the pioneer of TV for women on cable networks, has seen the future: online dress-up games. The company announced today that it...
Why hasn’t Digg made any progress? It’s worth only $164M now
Has the news site Digg really made no progress in two years? That’s what you’d have to conclude from the value investors are placing...
Web 2.0 Summit: a conversation with venture capitalist John Doerr
Journalist John Heileman is interviewing John Doerr on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today. His first question: Who should Barack...
Wild Tangent’s chief Alex St. John talks about elevating COO, shutting game studio
Alex St. John was one of the renegades at Microsoft back in the day. He cut an imposing figure as he wandered the halls...
Mytopia shifts from games to cross-platform technology
Mytopia started as an online games company. But that business is now a sideshow. The company’s real business will now revolve around its technology...
Updated: KingsIsle adds new pricing model for teen-focused online game Wizard101
Teens don’t carry a lot of credit cards with them. That’s why KingsIsle Entertainment is expected to announce on Monday an alternative payment system...
Electronics Arts reports loss, will lay off more than 500 workers
Electronic Arts reported a big loss today and said it would lay off 6 percent of its 9,000-person work force, or roughly 540 people....
Nintendo dishes out another stellar earnings report: DS has now outsold the GameBoy
Nintendo reported another record for the six-month period from April to September. The record sales, profits and shipments move the company a step closer...
Microsoft kicks off the era of user-generated console games
Games are starting to catch up with movies in this respect: low-budget titles from indie studios have the same chance to succeed as blockbusters....