With 12 million paying subscribers, World of WarCraft is the juggernaut of the massively multiplayer online game business. But Star Wars: The Old Republic is waiting in the wings to challenge WoW’s dominance of online gaming. After many years of …
Last night, BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 video game beat out Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption, the big favorite, to win Game of the Year at the 14th annual Interactive Achievement Awards.
That sets the stage for Mass Effect 3, which BioWare, …
Bing Gordon accepted one of the video game industry’s highest honors last night: He became the latest recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, a prestigious video-game association that stages the Dice Summit …
Epic Games is known for titles like Gears of War on the PC and on consoles. But the company is also working hard to make its Unreal Engine run on mobile devices such as the iPad. Epic’s Infinity Blade game …
One of the core values at Canadian game developer BioWare is corporate humility. Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, the founders of BioWare (a highly successful game division at Electronic Arts), believe that being humble is key to success.
In an …
Everyone assumes that people play mobile games while they’re on the run, but the reality is that mobile game users are seven times more likely to be playing a game in the restroom of their own home than they are …
Raptr, the gamer social network, just raised $2.50 for every fan that it has. The company announced today that it has built its audience to more than 6 million users and raised $15 million in funding.
The numbers show that …
Console video game sales aren’t getting the love they once did from consumers. Activision Blizzard shocked the game industry yesterday when it said it was laying off 500 people and shuttering the Guitar Hero video game franchise.
But consumers are …
Kontagent, which makes software to help social app makers make sense of user behavior, is announcing today that its analytics tools are tracking more than 100 million users in social games. That’s triple the number from a year ago.
Albert …
Immersion has been making haptic, or touch feedback, technology since 1993. But now it wants to accelerate the adoption of touch feedback on smartphones and tablet computers. That means we’re going to see a lot more apps that we not …
Movies games have been duds since time immemorial. They come out too late to cash in on a film’s popularity, or they just don’t look good compared to the movie experience.
But Funtactix hopes to change that with a new …
There’s a specter hanging over the traditional video game industry, and you can see it in the image above. Social game companies such as Zynga and mobile games on the iPhone are grabbing players by the tens of millions. The …
OnLive’s $40 million in funding from HTC yesterday has everyone in the game business wondering what the company’s overall valuation might be.
One expert we asked came up with an estimate of $1.8 billion for the cloud gaming service startup. …
Visa has agreed to buy virtual goods company PlaySpan for $190 million in a big move into the market for digital goods.
PlaySpan enables game companies and video publishers to make money through the buying and selling of virtual goods. …
Mobile game distributor Tapjoy is launching a new service today to let advertisers reward users for the amount of time they spend with a given mobile application. Called the Pay-Per-Action Model for Android and Apple devices, the service is designed …
Apple has started manufacturing the second version of its iPad tablet computer, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The iPad 2 will come with a built-in camera (other reports have said two cameras) and a faster processor than the A4 …
One of my great regrets in life is failing to become fluent in another language. My only consolation was that I figured, someday, someone in Silicon Valley would create a universal translator, like Douglas Adams’ Babel fish in the Hitchhikers …
Red Dead Redemption, the blockbuster Western video game from Take-Two Interactive, sold more than 8 million units through Dec. 31, thanks in no small part to online content sales.
The results show that a big blockbuster console game can get …
Cloud-based game service OnLive has raised $40 million from Taiwan’s HTC, one of the fastest-growing makers of smartphones.
The announcement is a huge boost for server-based gaming, which promises to disrupt traditional game retailers and game consoles. It also shows …
Kenneth Olsen, who died at 84 on Sunday, was a natural disruptor in the early days of computing. At Digital Equipment Corp., Olsen’s minicomputers undercut the costs of IBM’s mainframe computers and carved out a role for smaller, less capable …
