Dice Summit: The mood at the game industry’s Oscar awards: happy but cautious
The Interactive Achievement Awards at the Dice Summit represents the industry’s chance to get excited about what it does and to give away the...
DICE Summit: Bruce Shelley on why Ensemble Studios was shut after 20 million games sold
One of the bittersweet moments of the DICE Summit is that Bruce Shelley, who spent decades making games, is going to get the lifetime...
DICE Summit: Why game entrepreneur David Perry isn’t making any more single-player games
David Perry has made some of the biggest games played on traditional video game consoles, such as The Matrix and Messiah. But the creative...
Dice Summit: EA CEO says game companies have to cut the fat, and focus
Electronic Arts has just had to cut 1,100 of its 10,000 employees. John Riccitiello, chief executive of EA, talked at the Dice Summit today...
Dice Summit: Resident Evil producer, Takeuchi, addresses Japan’s weakening game market
Japan is a shrinking part of the video game market, with software sales now trailing behind the United Kingdom. It’s about six percent of...
Valve’s Gabe Newell kicks off Dice Summit with digital downloading talk
As a game developer, Gabe Newell wanted to have a close relationship with his customers. But in the past, the chief executive of Valve...
Twitter finally putting search front and center
From the day I signed up about two years ago, I’ve always seen the potential in Twitter. It’s a potential that the company almost...
Nintendo DSi arrives on April 5
In what is sure to be a nice shot in the arm for the portable game industry, Nintendo announced today that its handheld DSi...
Latest Lord of the Rings game doesn’t quite measure up
I’ve just finished playing the single-player campaign of Lord of the Rings: Conquest, developed by the Pandemic Studios division of Electronic Arts. And I...
Two game firms merge to form Blade Games
Vyk Games and Digini are announcing today they are merging to form Blade Games, VentureBeat has learned. Seattle-based Digini makes game development tools for...