How Thatgamecompany designed its new game, Journey
Kellee Santiago is co-founder and president of Thatgamecompany, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based game studio she started with Jenova Chen. After three years of work,...
The DeanBeat: Tips from Ubisoft on making a happy game industry acquisition
It’s no secret that 2012 will be a year full of acquisitions in the game industry. Last year, investments grew 96 percent to $2...
Zynga’s Dyer invites developers to be publishing partners
Rob Dyer is having his coming out party today. He joined social gaming giant Zynga in October as head of partner publishing, and now...
Konami and others will make games for Zynga.com
Zynga announced today that three major game companies have joined its new platform for publishing games on Zynga.com and Facebook. The new third-party partners...
Facebook’s tips for getting your mobile game noticed
Mobile games are so plentiful that discovering the right one has become a nightmare. But Facebook believes that it has a solution in layering...
Game developers salivate over the new iPad’s specs
The new iPad’s high-end specifications are perfect for game developers and will up the ante when it comes to building better graphics into their...
EA lines up three Battlefield 3 expansions for 2012
Electronic Arts announced last night that it will launch three new expansions for Battlefield 3 as it tries to establish the game as a...
How to design a game for your teenage daughter
Designing games for teenage girls can be a gold mine on the iPhone or Android mobile devices. But it’s also pretty tricky, if...
Former EA leader Jamil Moledina switches focus to cross-platform social games
Jamil Moledina envisions a future in which all games are cross-platform. And to help make that future a reality he left a job at...
The Game Developers Conference in pictures (photo gallery)
The Game Developers Conference drew around 19,000 game developers to San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center this week. The show captured an industry in the...