While game publishers might want to phase-out retail boxed products, Colin Sebastian from Lazard Capital Management said that we’re going to see a lot of friction with online distribution.
Sebastian was on the analyst panel at our GamesBeat 2009 conference …
“It’s been about 28 years since I started gaming,” baseball star Curt Schilling said at GamesBeat 2009. He started with the first Apple computer he ever saw.
“For the last decade, [massively multiplayer online games] have been the focal point …
John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, hasjust delivered a keynote address for GamesBeat 2009 that covers the history of SOE, and its bold new strategy to expand in the market.
He begins by telling the story of his earliest …
The economy is soft, admitted the panel of venture capitalists at GamesBeat 2009. But Mitch Lasky, from Benchmark Capital, said, “We’re looking for what we’re always looking for.” And those are companies with defensible positions, companies that can create a …
Howard Marks is a high-energy guy. He can talk a mile a minute about Asian online game business models, or user-crafted games, and everything in between.
But most interestingly, the chief executive of Acclaim has just reinvented the music game …
Paul Thelen, chairman and chief strategy officer of casual game distributor Big Fish Games, said his company grew faster in the fourth quarter than it did at any time in the past two years. That raises the question: Just how …
Amazon.com purchased casual game portal Reflexive back in October. So it came as no surprise when Amazon launched a casual games download service last Tuesday.
Now any of the 88 million yearly Amazon customers can purchase and download casual games …
John Barbour has been the president of Real Games — Real Networks’ gaming division that was set to spin off before the IPO market froze over — for just 14 weeks.
And he says that he’s never seen so much …
As an attorney that works closely with the video game industry, S. Gregory Boyd might just be the envy of his peers. As technology changes, the law has to keep up with it.
At the Austin Game Developers Conference this …
On the show floor of the Austin Game Developers Conference this week, Icarus Studios demonstrated a 3D, real-time renderer for Apple’s iPhone.
The North Carolina-based studio has been developing a post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer online game (MMO) for the hardcore gamer. …
The Austin Game Developers Conference featured one of the first official public dissections of the Lively by Google virtual world (or virtual room), and I got a chance to sit down with the project’s creative director, Kevin Hanna in advance …
Sun Microsystems is at the Austin Game Developers Conference this week, pitching developers on its latest R&D effort, Project Darkstar – an open-source server platform for massively multiplayer online games, social networks and virtual worlds.
This isn’t the first time …
Here’s a debut freelance post by Austin game writer N. Evan Van Zelfden, who writes about video game and technology businesses for numerous magazines and web sites, including the Reuters news agency and The Economist.
By N. Evan Van Zelfden…
