Categories Posted inin Business Candy Crush Saga is now in the fastest-growing mobile market of them all: China Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 17, 2014 2 min Tencent will release Candy Crush Saga on its QQ and Weixin apps soon. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Sony may offer a PS4 upgrade plan to PS3 owners of The Last of Us Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 17, 2014 2 min If you own The Last of Us on PlayStation 3, you might hesitate before dropping $60 to get the Remastered release on PS4 when it hits this summer. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Sony is selling off all its shares in Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 16, 2014 2 min Sony hopes to make around $47 million in profit from the sale. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business This Final Fantasy VII house would be worth 38M gil (or about $2M in real life) Posted byby Mike Minotti April 16, 2014 1 min Aerith lived in the slums, but she could have afforded something much nicer if she got a decent realtor. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Moebius: Empire Rising can’t point-and-click its way out of mediocrity (review) Posted byby Mike Minotti April 16, 2014 4 min Moebius: Empire Rising is a competent adventure game hampered by technical ugliness. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business How one indie publisher accidentally found its own Mega Man, Castlevania, and Zelda (interview) Posted byby Mike Minotti April 16, 2014 4 min Casey Lynch, Midnight City's vice president of publishing, explains why retro games still resonate with today's indie creations. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Twitch puts its money where the crowd is by pledging funds for audience-controlled game Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 16, 2014 2 min The livestreaming company is dropping a few grand to help fund a game that relies on the video platform to function. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Former Halo developer Bungie allegedly ‘terminated’ longtime composer Marty O’Donnell last week Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 16, 2014 2 min Marty O'Donnell says Bungie fired him "without cause." Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Trials Fusion is a beautiful poem of physics and motion (review) Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 16, 2014 5 min One of the most-popular Xbox Live Arcade games gets a sequel that is one of the best releases on PS4 or Xbox One. Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Pushing into game services, Unity buys predictive analytics startup Playnomics (exclusive) Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 16, 2014 3 min Unity Technologies is expanding beyond its game engine to services with the acquisition of Playnomics, which provides predictive analytics for game developers, GamesBeat has... Continue Reading 3 min