E3 game conference gets its mojo back
For a couple of years, even as the game industry entered a renaissance, the E3 trade show was lost in the wilderness. But this year, it made its way back to center stage, with the return of squeeze-through crowds, trillion-decibel booths, jiggling booth babes and blockbuster games on huge screens.
About 40,000 people attended the show at the Los Angeles Convention Center. That was 10 times more than the press-focused shows of the last two years,… Continue Reading
Updated: Game and virtual world fundings top $885 million in 2008
See our updated post on this data.
We’ve updated to include data from Virtual World Management’s list, so the number is much bigger than we reported earlier]. In 2008, VentureBeat chronicled lots of game and virtual world fundings. Our updated list shows 93 game companies that raised more than $885.6 million worth of venture capital and angel funds. That’s nothing compared to the $4.1 billion that went into U.S. deals for clean tech, according to the… Continue Reading
Trion World Network raises $70 million for server-based online games
Trion World Network announced it has raised $70 million in a third round of funding to finance its massively multiplayer online games for the PC.
The amount is a big haul for a game company and, coming off the heels of an $83 million round for Big Fish Games earlier this month, shows that video games are in favor among investors despite the tough economy. To date, Redwood City, Calif.-based Trion has raised more than $100… Continue Reading
Game startup Trion to disrupt industry with cross-platform online games, nabs deal with Sci Fi Channel
Game startup Trion World Network is today revealing how it is designing massively multiplayer online games with high graphics fidelity that will run across video game platforms — such as consoles, PC, mobile, and set-top boxes — a feat that no other video game company has yet pulled off.
The bold scheme will let the startup launch multiple games at once on what it calls the “Trion Platform,” which consists of software that runs on a… Continue Reading
Trion chief thinks Activision Blizzard is trying to scare off WoW rivals
Lars Buttler isn’t shy in this story in GameDaily. The CEO of Redwood City, Calif.-based Trion World Network says that Bobby Kotick, the CEO of Activision (whose merger with Vivendi’s game unit is pending), was really just trying to scare away rivals when he said recently that it would take $500 million for a competitor to dislodge World of Warcraft from its No. 1 position in the massively multiplayer (MMO) online game market.
Buttler’s own start-up… Continue Reading