Indie game sensation Minecraft surpasses 4 million copies sold
Indie sandbox building game Minecraft has sold over 4 million copies on the PC, according to the game’s official website. That number is close...
Indie darling Minecraft “incompatible” with Steam digital distribution service
Indie darling game Minecraft, which has more than 10 million users, is “incompatible” with wildly popular game digital distribution service Steam because game’s secondary...
18-year-old’s games get 10M plays in Roblox game world
Roblox is a thriving web-based virtual world where kids can create building-block creations in Leg0-like styles. It is far more successful than other virtual...
LulzSec's real agenda? Who knows, but they love the Dreamcast
Well, that tears it. LulzSec, a band of hackers that has made headlines for a number of high-profile hacking incidents, are a bunch of...
Hit the deck: LulzSec and Anonymous start trading blows
Hacker group LulzSec has begun publicly attacking hacker group Anonymous, an action that could lead to a civil war of sorts between the two...
LulzSec hits U.S. Senate website, throws a “DDoS Party”
Hacker group Lulz Security is taking responsibility for breaking into the public website for the U.S. Senate, Senate.gov. Separately, the hacker group has launched...
Week in review: Another Black Ops map pack on the way?
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories that VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Is another...
Indie darling Minecraft creator: release games before they’re finished
The Zynga way — releasing games mid-production and updating them as time goes on — is the way to go for independent game developers,...
Indie sandbox game Minecraft racks up 1 million sales without a publisher
Independent developer Markus Persson, better known by his Twitter handle, @notch, has sold 1 million copies of Minecraft, a first-person free-roaming game where players...