Q&A with Kareem Ettouney on Sony’s great hope: LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation 3
NEW YORK CITY—Sony is pulling out the stops to celebrate the launch of a critical game, LittleBigPlanet, from developer Media Molecule. In the game,...
Trion World Network raises $70 million for server-based online games
Trion World Network announced it has raised $70 million in a third round of funding to finance its massively multiplayer online games for the...
Nvidia cuts 360 jobs to deal with sinking financial performance
Buffeted by renewed competition in graphics chips and other problems, Nvidia said today it expects to lay off about 360 employees, or about 6.5...
Bigfoot Networks teams up with Dell to kill game lag
Bigfoot Networks, which makes Killer NIC K1 network interface cards that can give gamers an unfair advantage in an online game by speeding animations...
Challenge Games raises $10 million for web-based role-playing games
Browser-based fantasy game company Challenge Games has raised a $10 million second round of funding. Globespan Capital Partners led the round, which came just...
Austin game event: Lively by Google could be expanded to include games
The Austin Game Developers Conference featured one of the first official public dissections of the Lively by Google virtual world (or virtual room), and...
Vivox scores deals for voice-communication in online games for 38 Studios and Sony
Once considered an afterthought in games, voice communication is becoming a bigger part of the online gaming experience. Now players can use sound strategically...
Social Gaming Network acquires (fluff)Friends virtual pet game
Social Gaming Network has acquired (fluff)Friends, a Facebook virtual pet game maker. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Palo Alto, Calif.,-based SGN is...
Austin game event: Sun Microsystems tailors its services for online games
Sun Microsystems is at the Austin Game Developers Conference this week, pitching developers on its latest R&D effort, Project Darkstar – an open-source server...
Austin game event: Online game pioneer spells out the business of online games
Here’s a debut freelance post by Austin game writer N. Evan Van Zelfden, who writes about video game and technology businesses for numerous magazines...