Angry Birds maker Rovio hires new exec to lead game development
His job will be to get the game mojo back for Rovio
Why the web will be a global gaming platform
Players want their games available on any device. HTML 5 has the power to deliver them to their PCs, their consoles, and their mobile devices.
EA has a lot riding on Battlefield 4, and it’s stepping up its investment in a big way
EA's big challenger to the dominance of Call of Duty has been unveiled.
John Riccitiello’s legacy: EA survives, but its hit points are dangerously low
It's easy to take shots at Riccitiello's record, but his successes and failures were complex.
EA says SimCity sells a 1.1M copies in series’ biggest launch ever despite server issues
EA said it is the fastest-selling SimCity ever.
Ukraine’s Room 8 launches Cyto to break into Western mobile-game markets
The game is one of many physics-based experiences with a zany premise, and it's just the kind of title that has a chance of taking off on a worldwide stage.
Maxis: ‘Yes’ — we could ‘have built a subset offline mode’ in SimCity
A modder revealed you can continue playing SimCity even when not connected to a server. Maxis responds.
EA’s Lucy Bradshaw acknowledges SimCity ‘stumbled out of the gate with our service’ (interview)
But she says the game servers can now meet demand and EA has learned valuable lessons.
The DeanBeat: It’s the community, stupid. Again.
Every company has to ask itself if its actions are good or bad for the gaming community.