Aggressive expansion: How Hero Academy came to embrace China and Steam (interview)
We interview Patrick Hudson, chief executive of Robot Entertainment, about the recent moves that they have made for their popular iOS strategy game, Hero Academy.
Updated: Surprise, surprise: Sony drops OnLive support for streaming media player after purchasing Gaikai
[Update: We’ve updated this story to be more precise. It is still confusing, but we’ve added the facts as we know them] Sony has...
Apple’s crackdown on app-ranking manipulation: Confused developers caught in the dragnet
In the battle between Apple’s police and the developers who cheat to boost their rankings, some innocent startups are finding themselves banned from the marketplace.
Total War: Rome II elevates the human drama of war (preview)
The Creatively Assembly's upcoming sequel to Rome: Total War places a greater emphasis on investing players with their units and soldiers.
What happened to the horror in survival horror?
In their attempts to reach a wider audience, survival-horror video game developers could be ruining what made their games great in the first place: the horror.
Start your engines: LittleBigPlanet Karting beta signups are now live
Ready for the race? Beta signups for LittleBigPlanet Karting go live, giving an early glimpse into the user-crafted tracks, weapons, and karts of the upcoming racer.
Gamers spend $3.4B on all types of games in Q1
Gamers spent $3.4 billion on both physical and digital games in the first quarter, according to market researcher NPD Group. Consumers spent nearly half...
Sega announces Total War: Rome II
Developer The Creative Assembly will produce the sequel to the critically acclaimed strategy game Rome: Total War.
Game acquisitions heated up in the second quarter while investments slowed
Game industry acquisitions grew dramatically in the second quarter, putting 2012 on track to break records for game M&A deals, according to investment bank...
Disney and others bring disruption to movie-licensed games
Movie-licensed games are experiencing an extinction by evolution. Mobile apps and quality releases based on specific characters are displacing these often mediocre titles.