Webcarzz raises $4 million to create online car game for boys
Many of the successful online games for kids — from Club Penguin to Neopets — are appealing to girls. But Webcarzz is going after...
Roundup: Nvidia battles recall flyers, Google dives deep and the Internet is broken again
Here’s the latest action: The Internet is broken — This is starting to sound like a broken record. Didn’t we just write about the...
Nvision 08: Emerging Companies Summit highlights visual start-ups
Sixty start-ups gathered today to talk at the Emerging Companies Summit about how they’re using graphics technologies in their businesses. The summit was one...
Q&A with Nvidia CEO: Jen-Hsun Huang on visual computing, tension with Intel, and product bugs
Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, started his graphics chip company in 1993 and is now the last man standing. Back then, no one...
Nvision 08: Surprise, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang predicts visual computing revolution
Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang took the stage at the inaugural Nvision 08 conference to celebrate the era of visual computing. You’d expect him...
From the ashes of the graphics wars, another start-up
It seems obvious that the graphics chip wars are done, as far as start-ups are concerned. Intel is squaring off against Advanced Micro Devices...
PC gaming hits $10.7 billion in revenues worldwide
Computer games have a perception problem amid the higher visibility of the console video game market. But the PC games industry isn’t anything to...
EA and Take-Two Interactive start talking to each other
After months of a hostile-takeover stand-off, Take-Two Interactive Software said today that it expects to sign a confidentiality agreement with Electronic Arts. That means...
Q&A with Paul Sams, Blizzard Entertainment’s chief operating officer, on post-merger life
Paul Sams is the chief operating officer of Blizzard Entertainment. The Irvine, Calif.-based company is a division of Activision Blizzard, the newly created gaming...
Interview with Epic Games’ Mike Capps, on teaming up with Electronic Arts
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...