Inside Will Wright’s next big game: HiveMind (exclusive)
Will Wright has created some of the biggest video games of all time, from SimCity to The Sims — games that have sold well...
Pirated Modern Warfare 3 discs are already spreading (exclusive)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 doesn’t come out until Nov. 8. But pirates have already obtained the video game — one of the...
Console owners are consuming more and more downloadable content (exclusive)
Video game console owners are purchasing more and more downloadable content, according to a survey by market analyst firm EER. More than 51 percent of...
CrowdStar’s Starfund targets mobile game developers with $250K investments (exclusive)
CrowdStar‘s $10 million StarFund investment fund has made investments in six new mobile game startups for about $250,000 each. The first fruits from that...
6waves Lolapps launches Ravenskye City social game (exclusive)
Hoping to extend a social game franchise, 6waves Lolapps is launching its new Ravenskye City game today. The game is an expansion of the...
Gears of War 3 sells 3 million in first week, more exclusives likely coming
Epic Games’ Gears of War 3 — one of the holiday season’s first blockbuster titles — has sold more than 3 million copies in...
For PapayaMobile’s social games, the women are the “whales” (exclusive)
As is customary in games, PapayaMobile depends heavily on the tiny proportion of users who pay for goods in social mobile games. But one...
Intergi scores ad deal with online game leader Bigpoint (exclusive)
Intergi Entertainment has nabbed an exclusive ad agreement with online games leader Bigpoint to manage Bigpoint’s online advertising in North America, the company announced today....
BringIt launches head-to-head challenges in Facebook mini games (exclusive)
BringIt builds mini games inside Facebook games to encourage players to buy and spend virtual currency. Today, it is adding the ability for players...
Exclusive: Meet Guerillapps’ Trash Tycoon, a social game to bring out your green side
Social games maker Guerillapps today launched Trash Tycoon, a social game about recycling that’s designed to encourage “upcycling” — the process of converting old...