Angry Birds ride their bicycle in support of annual AIDS charity event
Rovio is helping to support a good cause by dressing an angry bird like a legendary rock-n-roll star.
Developers and publishers need each other now more than ever before
Any yahoo can publish a game these days. Yet today's market still demands of the specialization of the past, allowing the creator to focus on creating and the distributing to focus on marketing. And this relationship matters more now than ever before in Digital Publishing 2.0.
How Storm8 can score millions of mobile game downloads with zero marketing cost (interview)
Storm8 has bootstrapped itself into a major mobile game company. It has its detractors, but the company has a huge base of users and it moves really fast.
Goodbye, OnLive. Hello, Square Enix. Core Online service brings high-def games to browsers
Square Enix's Core Online lets you play 3D games in several different web browsers.
YouTube’s Xbox Live app updated for speed, ad support
YouTube just released an update to its Xbox Live app today that gives the video player a significant speed boost along with some other additions.
After big hit on iPhone, only 30 percent of Kabam’s revenue comes from Facebook (interview)
Kevin Chou, head of Kabam, talks about how his firm will grow its social gaming business by 50 percent to $150M
Google Play gift cards coming to Target and GameStop
Good news for people who have no interest in putting thought into a birthday present for their tech savvy, anti-Apple friends.
Goko’s HTML5 platform aims to level the playing field for indie developers (with exclusive screens of Catan World)
The HTML5 game company launches with several titles today, including a private beta of Catan World, a Settlers of Catan MMO (click through to find exclusive screens).
Asus and Wikipad join Playstation Mobile, widening the reach of Sony games to more devices
Sony signs up new partners to expand PlayStation Mobile games to tablets that don't carry the Japanese media giant's name.
YoYo Games builds monetization and analytics services into its game development tools
YoYo Games is making it easy to tap monetization and analytics services from within its cross-platform game development tools.