Trion Worlds raises $85M for its online gaming platform business
Trion Worlds has raised $85 million in strategic growth financing as it prepares to launch its online gaming platform for third-party massively multiplayer online...
Star Wars: The Old Republic debuts on Tuesday as one of the most ambitious games ever
BioWare’s epic new online game Star Wars: The Old Republic debuts on Tuesday. A persistent world known as a massively multiplayer online game (MMO),...
Trion prepares to host third-party games on its online gaming platform
Game maker Trion Worlds, which successfully launched its first major online role-playing fantasy game, Rift, back in March, is now unveiling a game platform to publish...
Rift developer Trion picks up games vet to head third-party publishing
Trion Worlds, the developer behind massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Rift, announced today that it has hired games industry veteran David Luehmann to...
Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games
Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed. As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was...
Google Ventures partner: Venture capitalists are bad at picking games
Investors haven’t been very good at figuring out which gaming companies will be successful, said Google Ventures partner Joe Kraus. That’s not limited to...
A GamesBeat 2011 debate: Will the deep end or the shallow end of gaming thrive?
Today we’re revealing the ninth group of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. These speakers are going to engage in a debate about...