What happened to the horror in survival horror?
In their attempts to reach a wider audience, survival-horror video game developers could be ruining what made their games great in the first place: the horror.
The DeanBeat: Zynga battles to dominate the red ocean, not the blue
Will the red ocean strategy work for Zynga? The sharks are in the water as the social game giant goes head-on against competitors.
Meet the judges for our GamesBeat 2012 ‘Who’s Got Game’ game-startup competition
We’d like to formally introduce our judges for the Who’s Got Game contest for the industry’s best game startup. They include: Ann Burkett is...
New institute gets $10M to gamify education for kids
The game industry and nonprofits are teaming up to create a video game design lab that will do research on engaging students and measuring...
Pocket Gems launches All Talk voice-based mobile game
With hundreds of thousands of mobile games available on smartphones, innovating isn’t that easy. But Pocket Gems hopes to stand out from the crowd...
Zynga rolls out new games for casino, arcade, and mobile — are they clones?
Zynga announced several new games at its Unleashed event today in San Francisco. These games aren’t likely to do much for the company’s reputation...
Zynga’s latest Facebook game takes Electronic Arts’ Sims Social head-on
The Ville is Zynga's latest social Facebook game allowing players to build virtual homes and gardens. It's also the company's answer to Electronic Arts' The Sims Social.
Reminder: This is why everyone hated Mass Effect 3
Tomorrow sees the release of the Extended Cut of Mass Effect 3. Here's a bunch of random images to remind us why we hated it in the first place!
Embracing Silicon Valley, EA gears up for its digital empire (interview)
Electronic Arts generated $1.2 billion in digital game revenues in the past year. That includes revenues from downloadable content, Facebook games, web titles, mobile...
Kickstarter project aims to reimagine classic Atari game M.U.L.E. (exclusive)
DreamQuest Games is launching a Kickstarter crowdfunding project to raise money for a remake of the classic Atari game M.U.L.E.