Crowdfunding nearly doubled last year with 1M successful campaigns
Crowdfunding is a young industry, but it's growing rapidly, with over 1 million campaigns successfully funded last year.
Sega: Dealing with the console transition, mobile boom, and Sonic (interview)
Sega wants it all: console, mobile, hardcore, and casual. How does this once-king of hardware deal with the challenges of being everything to everyone, everywhere?
Microsoft: Sorry if Orth offended you — no comment on next Xbox
Microsoft apologizes for the short-sighted and insulting comments from one of its creative directors.
Arena.xlsm: How an accountant made an RPG in Microsoft Excel
Accountant Cary Walkin built a full role-playing game in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program.
InXile’s Torment: Tides of Numenera is the most funded Kickstarter game ever
Tides of Numenera has a few hours left to accept contributions from gamers.
EA exec Peter Moore responds to Worst Company in America tournament
Peter Moore is on damage control because EA is a favorite to win Consumerist's Worst Company in America poll.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney shutters LucasArts, Zynga tries to reinvigorate OMGPOP, and more
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Salaries are up for game developers but women don’t make as much as men
Health-care coverage is also up while layoffs were down for a third year in a row.
DeNA’s first-person shooter The Drowning nears launch on the iPad (interview)
The launch of The Drowning, a novel first-person shooter on the iPad, is drawing near.
Zynga CEO volunteers to reduce his salary to $1
Mark Pincus will also refuse any bonuses or equity awards.