Can Zynga satisfy investors with its first-ever earnings report?
Zynga is expected to report a profit for the fourth-quarter in its first-ever quarter financial report after the market closes on Tuesday. The largest...
ZeptoLab cuts deals with toymakers on Cut the Rope characters
ZeptoLab is cashing in on its Cut the Rope smartphone game — which has been downloaded more than 100 million times — by announcing...
Making Fun joins the hidden-object game fray on Facebook with Hidden Haunts (exclusive)
Making Fun, the social game division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., has launched a hidden object game called Hidden Haunts that will set itself...
Why Sony’s Shu Yoshida thinks the PlayStation Vita will kill it in the U.S. compared to Japan (interview)
Shuhei Yoshida is in charge of all of the games that Sony makes internally for the PlayStation 3 and its other platforms. The president...
Activision’s Eric Hirshberg: Turning games into brands and other non-douche moves (exclusive interview)
Eric Hirshberg was an experiment when Activision Blizzard‘s chief executive hired Hirshberg as CEO of the Activision Publishing division about 18 months ago. Hirshberg...
The DICE Summit in pictures (photo gallery)
Here’s our photo gallery from the DICE Summit 2012. This year’s conference drew more than 700 game industry luminaries to a wide variety of...
Double Fine Adventure shatters Kickstarter record with $1M raised in first 24 hours (updated)
Updated at 4:30pm PST for record $1 million amount. Earlier this week, crowd-funding site Kickstarter set a new record when the Elevation iPhone Dock...
Activision Blizzard earnings: Call of Duty Elite snares 7M subscribers
Activision Blizzard reported today that its new Call of Duty Elite social network service for hardcore gamers has signed up 7 million subscribers since...
How Google plans to avoid Facebook’s “games ghetto” with Google+
“We’ve seen communities ruined by games,” said Google+ engineering director David Glazer to a room full of app developers. “How do we find that...
Study: U.S. gaming population has nearly tripled in three years
The number of people playing video games in the U.S. has risen 241 percent since 2008, according to a new study from market research...