Now it's time to meet Jeffrey Sandlin! O gosh o golly o wow! I can't wait!….Wait…who the hell is that guy?
Jeffrey is a wonderful and meaningful human being who's long term struggles with anger and depression only …
[Update: the investor group has since announced it would buy 65 percent of Skype for $1.9 billion, valuing Skype at $2.75 billion]
eBay is expected to announce a deal on Tuesday to sell its Skype web-calling division to a group …
Opera Software just released the final version of Opera 10, the latest revamp of its pioneering-but-not-terribly-popular web browser.
Could this be the breakthrough Opera needs to reach a big audience in the United States? Opera is doing all right financially, …
Silicon Mitus raised a second round of funding for its business of making power management chips. The funding stands out, since relatively few chip startups are getting funding these days. The amount wasn’t disclosed.
The Seoul-based firm is headed by …
The next Kingdom Hearts game might have just gotten a LOT more interesting.
News Blips:
• Oh the humanity of it all!: Megacorporation Disney to acquire Marvel. How this will play out for the Marvel licensed games is not entirely clear …
Update: Khosla Ventures just sent us a press release confirming the news.
Looks like not everyone’s afraid of the ongoing shakeup of the venture capital industry. Khosla Ventures, the firm headed by Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, has raised two …
It’s pretty common to see video game art based on Mega Man. Example: These two versions of the iconic blue bomber made entirely with beads [via technabob]:
Pretty cool, eh? Yeah, but not too exotic. Beads? Yawn! Those things can’t …
SealCOS is announcing today that it is launching a certification process to ensure that consumers are visiting an authentic site belonging to a well-known brand. The Seal of a Certified Site is meant to sift officials sites from the pretenders.…
Beta testing can sometimes seem like a meaningless term, with Google in particular keeping applications in beta for ridiculous periods of time. But it’s still an important tool for web testing and development, and one that can get complicated, when …
This is one of my 1UP blog posts I’m most fond of, so I’d like to post it as my first piece on Bitmob. Hope you enjoy.
Do any of your family members play videogames? I’m lucky to have two …
Crispin and I recap our highs and lows at EGM through the decades in another Sore Thumbs reprint, updated for your reading pleasure.
But don’t forget, this isn’t really goodbye anymore, as EGM is coming back under new (old) ownership, …
Now that the unluckily numbered Final Fantasy 13 has an English voice dub, are you sure that you still want to enroll in Intro to Japanese for the fall semester?
Video Blips:
• This Final Fantasy 13 director interview breaks …
Boy, does time fly. Fourteen years ago, I remember playing an SNES game with an unusual title called Chrono Trigger. Before playing Chrono, I knew little about this RPG, other than the fact that it was developed by a “Dream …
There’s been a lot of activity within the membership of the IGDA regarding Tim Langdell of Edge Games and his position on the board of directors in the past weeks.
Two weeks ago, the IGDA committed a major mistake by …
Private equity is starting to get the hint. Is it time for venture capital to do the same?
For more than a generation, “two-and-twenty” has been a rule of thumb for management fees in the venture capital industry. It means …
Turning the U.S.’s rickety paper-based system of health records into a state-of-the-art electronic one is no pretty task.
But someone’s got to do it.
Medsphere Systems Corporation, an open-source electronic health records provider, said it raised $12 million today to …
I absolutely love action games of any kind: Half-Life, Metroid, shmups, Kaboom!, Gunstar Heroes — you name it, I love it. So it may be a little surprising when I say that the obscure, arcane PC RPG NetHack is one …
Here's one more reminder for Bitmob members who will be attending this year's sold out Penny Arcade Expo. The community has arranged a member meet-up on Friday afternoon. We are planning on gathering at the Tap House Grill in downtown …
Here’s the latest action:
Top Android app developer spills his sad, sad sales stats – Matt Hall has some of the top-selling apps on Google’s Android Market. For that, his company has earned a pathetic $62.39 average daily revenue. Matt’s …
Sorry about the horrible quality. I’m working on attempting to make it a bit more understandable. If anyone has any ideas ( or would like to help me clean it up) I’d be more than happy to accept the advice …
