Behind the scenes of how Bethesda marketed giant fantasy hit Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was one of the best-selling video games of the fall, with more than 10 million units shipped in the...
Intel beats first-quarter earnings forecasts, but stock tumbles after hours
Intel beat analysts’ expectations for its earnings for the first quarter today, getting the new year of PC chip sales off to a good...
Save the universe date: Halo 4 to launch on November 6
Halo 4, the eighth installment of the long-running Xbox franchise, will launch on Nov. 6. The game is the latest in a series that...
IGN Pro League viewers highlight the rise of eSports online
The numbers are in from this month’s IGN Pro League (IPL) gaming competition, and they’re record-breakers of a kind. IGN boasts of drawing 346,000 streaming...
Gigya helps Boyd Gaming casino firm gamify its loyalty program (exclusive)
Casino companies know how to treat their high rollers right, but it’s about time they started giving rewards and achievements to their players as...
Zynga’s got $1.8 billion in cash and is aggressively looking for the next OMGPOP
Good news for all you mobile game developers out there: Zynga, now a public company, has a big chunk of available cash on hand...
Electronic Arts burned by reports of impending layoffs
Electronic Arts has an internal shakeup in the works, according to several reports around the web today. While EA representatives claim that the world’s...
WTFast promises to destroy lag in online games; we’re skeptical
The WTFast service is supposedly an accelerator of the connection between clients and servers which potentially increases the responsiveness of online games. I was skeptical, so I went in search of more data.
Social mobile game maker Zattikka goes public on London Stock Exchange
Zattikka, a London-based maker of browser and mobile games, has gone public on the London Stock Exchange. The company is a social game developer...
Kabam crosses 1M downloads for its first mobile game
Kabam said today that its first hardcore game for mobile devices has been downloaded more than a million times. Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the...