The Tap Lab raises $550K to fund location-based mobile games
The Tap Lab has raised $550,000 to finance mobile games that are layered on top of real-world locations. The idea is to create experiences...
Game designers and Rockefeller Foundation attack poverty with fun
Video games aren’t all about depicting violence. They can change the world for the better too. The Institute for the Future and the Rockefeller Foundation...
Israel’s Dragonplay raises $14M for free-to-play mobile social games
Israeli social and mobile game startup Dragonplay has raised $14 million in a first round of funding. The investors are Accel Partners, Entrée Capital, and...
Wii U reportedly launching on November 18 in North America
Nintendo's newest console, the Wii U, will launch in North America on Sunday, November 18th according to Wii U Daily.
The site claims to have obtained an internal email from Japanese retailer Media Land that reportedly outs the system's November 18th release date, with the Japanese launch to follow a week a later. The email contained no info on a European launch.
Can we panic now? — Core gaming has a problem
THQ layoffs, Sega cancellations, and Sony studio closures caused last week to be one of the worst in memory for the gaming industry. Compare that to mobile darling OMGPOP which was sold for $210 million based on the strength of one game. It seems like one side of the market is on its way down, while the other side has nothing but growth ahead of it, but that isn't necessarily the case.
Game developer salaries are flat despite rise of new platforms
Game developer salaries in the U.S. were virtually flat in 2011 even though the industry has seen a rise of new platforms in social,...
Developer starts Kickstarter campaign to fund Leisure Suit Larry game (exclusive)
Replay Games has started a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise $500,000 for the development of the company’s Leisure Suit Larry game. “We want to...
Romantic social network Zoosk encourages lovebirds to stick around with Couple Profiles
Zoosk, an online dating site with the features of a social network, launched Couple Profiles today.
Conventional wisdom would suggest that anyone who discovers the love of their life using an online dating service would then no longer have any use for said service. Romantic social network Zoosk is hoping to change that with new Couple Profiles, launching today.
Wooga scores 11M downloads for Diamond Dash on iOS
Wooga has come out of nowhere to become the second-largest player on Facebook in social games. Now it is showing great progress in getting...
A sick April Fools message from Batman: Arkham City’s Calendar Man
If you had any conversations with the imprisoned villain Calendar Man in last year's action-adventure hit Batman: Arkham City, you know that he hints at a few special dates...one of them being today, April 1. If you visit him today in the basement of the Solomon Wayne Courthouse (in the northwest corner of the city), he'll have this special message for you: