Game of Thrones painstakingly recreated in Minecraft (video)
Some of the modern world’s most iconic institutions can be found in Minecraft: the Empire State building, a 1000:1 scale Monopoly board, the U.S.S....
OMGPOP CEO tweets that only employee not to transition to Zynga was the “weakest” one (UPDATED)
In a pair of tweets, CEO Dan Porter of Draw Something developer OMGPOP called the one employee who turned down Zynga "selfish" and "the weakest one" on the team. Many fans of the sketching game for smartphones stated that they're uninstalling Draw Something based on Porter's behavior.
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly...
Minecraft makes multimedia history with a novel-inspired adventure map
Storytellers and aspiring game designers have tapped into the nearly limitless narrative possibilities in Minecraft through downloadable adventure maps. Author Andrea Buchanan took this...
Mojang’s Minecraft hits 25m downloads, $80m in revenue
Minecraft, the hit indie open-sandbox game now coming to XBox 360 in May, has made over $80M since it’s beginnings as a company in...
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly...
4JStudios readying Minecraft for May 9 release on XBox 360
Dundee, Scotland-based development studio 4JStudios has been tapped to port Minecraft to the XBox 360. According to Major Nelson, the game will be promoted...
Grand Cru raises $2M to build free-to-play Supernauts superhero game
Grand Cru is announcing today it has raised $2 million in seed funding to build an online adventure game called Supernauts. The company is entering a...
Trials Evolution creative director discusses going bigger, multiplayer, and female riders (interview)
Trials HD is one of the best-selling Xbox Live Arcade games to date, and for good reason. Released in 2009, the creative, side-scrolling physics-based...
How Fable: The Journey will use the Kinect in revolutionary ways (interview with Peter Molyneux)
Game designer Peter Molyneux discusses in detail how the latest Fable will use the Xbox 360's Kinect in never-before-seen ways...and why he stores his iPad in his underwear (seriously).