Playsino aims to publish third-party social casino games
The newly launched Playsino Publishing Network will help attract new users for social casino games and monetize them on Facebook and mobile platforms.
Minecraft for Xbox 360 sells 3 million
Minecraft creator Marcus Persson (also known as Notch) Tweeted this morning, "I got told Minecraft for XBLA passed three million sales today!"
John Spinale navigates Disney’s push into social gaming (interview)
A talk with John Spinale, Disney Interactive's head of social games, at GamesBeat 2012.
DeNA’s Neil Young: You have to ‘iterate the f*** out of your products’ to win (interview)
Will DeNA's success in Japan, where mobile gaming has exploded, repeat itself in the U.S. as smartphone and tablet games come to the fore? And will DeNA-Ngmoco be able to outmaneuver rivals such as Zynga, Electronic Arts, and Gree?
Nextpeer gives developers new ways to monetize their games via multiplayer tournaments
Nextpeer's SDK allows developers to earn money by implementing in-game multiplayer tournaments
The War Z takes zombie-survival into the massively multiplayer arena
Not even the massively multiplayer online (MMO) space is safe from the shambling corpses of the undead: The War Z is an upcoming “survival horror” MMO developed by Hammerpoint Interactive, an independent Los Angeles-based studio formed just last year.
Tapjoy keeps looking for creative ways to monetize mobile app users (video interview)
Tapjoy chief executive Mihir Shah speaks to GamesBeat about his company's trouble on iOS, huge success on Android, and multimillion dollar developer-funding efforts.
Insomniac Games’ Pokémon-inspired Facebook title, Outernauts, is now in open beta
The developer's first social game is now open for anyone to play.
Microsoft: Xbox 360 top-selling console for 18th consecutive month
Microsoft reportedly sold 257,000 units last month for a total of $272 million, more than was spent on the other current generation consoles combined.
Startup hopes to fund a Shadowrun MMO through Kickstarter
Developer Cliffhanger Productions seeks crowd-sourced backing for a massively multiplayer entry into the cyberpunk role-playing game franchise.