Heatwave Interactive raises round to become a games incubator
Heatwave Interactive has quietly built a studio to incubate video games and other media. It’s the brainchild of Antony Castoro, a seasoned game developer who started the company in February 2007. Heatwave just raised a round of $7.5 million from Syndicated Communications Venture Partners, VentureBeat has learned.
The Austin, Texas-based game company has a small crew of developers who incubate ideas for games. The company can iterate through a bunch of prototypes and ideas quickly, Castoro… Continue Reading
Radar Group addresses why video game movies suck
Video games and movies have been a sour combination. Movies make lousy games, and video games have made horrible movies. Most game-based movies have been money losers, until recently.
The interactive nature of games and the linear storytelling of games just don’t mix well. But the Radar Group believes that it doesn’t have to be that way as long as you plan to make a story into both a game and a movie from the outset…. Continue Reading