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| Feb 25, 2015 | 'Dragon Quest Heroes' Coming To North America And Europe Exclusively For PlayStation 4 In 2015 | Timothy Torres, Tech Times 25 February 2015, 02:02 pm
After a long silence, venerable Japanese RPG series Dragon Quest is finally making a return to Western shores in 2015.
Dragon Quest Heroes, an action-packed spin-off in the vein of Dynas... |
| Feb 2, 2015 | AOL says goodbye to Joystiq and TUAW | As the company transitions to becoming an ad platform, it has already begun trimming the fat
As AOL begins its transition into becoming a video ad platform, it means that big changes are coming for the company.
The company has already laid ... |
| Jan 30, 2015 | AOL To Lay Off About 150 People, Mostly In Sales; Folding Joystiq, TUAW Into Engadget | Some more details are emerging around AOL’s reorganization plans. Sources tell us that the company will lay off around 150 people, with the majority in sales. As part of it, AOL is also consolidating some websites. Gaming site Joystiq and A... |
| Jan 19, 2015 | Aol Is Restructuring, Layoffs And Site Closures Likely | Aol, owner of TechCrunch, is gearing up for some housekeeping. TechCrunch has learned that the company is preparing to lay off staff and close or fold up underperforming titles as part of a bigger restructuring, aimed at simplifying the com... |
| Jan 5, 2015 | Steam Hit 8.5 Million Concurrent Users on Jan. 2: PC Gaming Is Still Kicking | Christian de Looper, Tech Times 05 January 2015, 02:01 am
Steam has started 2015 with a bang, hitting a new record for the most concurrent users, logging upward of 8.5 million users.
The Steam game and player statistics page says that exact... |
| Nov 12, 2014 | 'Dragon Age: Inquisition' review roundup: Discover a massive open environment | Menchie Mendoza, Tech Times 12 November 2014, 08:11 am
Dragon Age: Inquisition is a game filled with fantasy and adventure that brings players across the vast landscapes of Thedas. Developed by BioWare, the upcoming game is everything that ... |
| Nov 4, 2014 | Is Baltimore County’s video game industry back on track? | Big Huge Games closed up once, nearly closed once before that, and came back with a new name and owner once after that, but like Rocky Balboa, it’s back for more.
The once-defunct Timonium developer’s name, among assets auctioned off after ... |
| Oct 28, 2014 | 'Sunset Overdrive' reviews roundup: Don't expect a typical apocalypse game | Menchie Mendoza, Tech Times 28 October 2014, 08:10 am
Sunset Overdrive is a game that amuses players with superhero acrobatics, mad skateboard moves when navigating the environment and a unique sense of humor and style.
As the story progres... |
| Oct 1, 2014 | Sims 4 update promises a swimmingly ghoulish and fashionable experience | Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 01 October 2014, 05:10 pm
What's dead may never die, especially now that one of three planned patches for The Sims 4 brings deceased sims back in time for Halloween.
Roughly a month after releasing The Sims 4, de... |
| Sep 26, 2014 | 'Forza Horizon 2' reviews are in. What gamers are saying | Dianne Depra, Tech Times 26 September 2014, 07:09 am
Forza Horizon 2 is due to come out next week on the Xbox One and Xbox 360 and initial impressions look great as critics check out the game in advance. What are they saying?
The game will ... |
| Aug 25, 2014 | 'Destiny' capturing attention even before game debut | Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 25 August 2014, 08:08 pm
After appetizer and starter courses of beta, preorder numbers show Xbox One and PlayStation 4 owners are hungry for a full play through of Destiny and the game's developers seem to be coo... |
| Jul 12, 2014 | How 8 games crawled through 'development hell' — and what they found on the other side | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Here’s what we know about Team Ico’s game The Last Guardian (pictured above): It’s the follow-up to the developer’s well-regarded Ico a... |
| May 16, 2014 | How Ubisoft quietly made Far Cry an annual franchise, and why no one's mad | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Far Cry could be the next Assassin’s Creed.
“Annual franchise” has become a bit of dirty word for g... |
| May 5, 2014 | Beautiful NES Redesign Promises 'Videophile Retro Gaming' For A Modern Price | A multitude of companies have attempted to cash in on the retro gaming craze, but Analogue Interactive is setting a new precedent for one of the most iconic video game consoles ever created, the Nintendo Entertainment System. |
| Apr 14, 2014 | Oculus Rift Shares Developer Hardware Sales Data | Were you to judge success by the response of “The Internet” when Facebook acquired nascent virtual reality hardware company Oculus Rift, developers didn’t like the deal. But were you to judge success by its actual sales, it may be a differe... |
| Jan 22, 2014 | How Much Does It Cost to Make a Video Game? | You pay $60 for many of the new games you play, but how much does a blockbuster game cost to make? Although it is a seemingly simple question, it is actually incredibly difficult to answer. Of all the opaque video game industry questions, t... |
| Jan 17, 2014 | Nintendo corta em 70% a previsão de vendas do Wii U para este ano fiscal | Prevendo que não alcançaria as metas de vendas iniciais, a Nintendo anunciou que diminuiu a previsão de vendas do Wii U para este ano fiscal, que termina em 31 de março. E não é uma redução nada pequena: de 9 milhões, a empresa abaixou para... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | OUYA Founding Team Member And VP Of Product Development Departs | One of OUYA’s founding members, Muffi Ghadiali, has left the company, TechCrunch has learned. Ghadiali was instrumental in helping launch the OUYA on Kickstarter and to the consumer market, and has previous experience working for Lab126 (Am... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | $23 Million Raised In Six Months For Game-Related Projects | Joystiq’s Crowdfund Bookie series periodically takes a peek at crowdfunding data for game-related campaign raising money on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Today they published the latest breakdown, and it shows that 186 projects on these two pl... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | You can use Bitcoin to buy drugs, cars, and now … Ouya games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Bitcoin has shed much of its value over the past few days, but that’s not stopping more and more vendors from accepting the digital, un... |
| Dec 3, 2013 | Microsoft’s Project Spark DIY Game Creation Software Beta Begins Today | Microsoft has recognized that people appreciate the chance to make their own stuff, possibly due to the success of PlayStation exclusive LittleBigPlanet, and that’s why it created Project Spark, previewed back in June at E3. Spark is an eve... |
| Nov 18, 2013 | PlayStation 4 issues: Sony posts troubleshooting guide for the ‘blinking blue light of death’ | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Sony might feel like throwing a party for itself after revealing that it sold 1 million Playstation 4s on Friday, but it should probabl... |
| Nov 2, 2013 | Alexandre Parizeau, Producer (Ubisoft) – The AppJuice Interview | This is our second Interview for the ‘Design Thinking’ Series.
Last week I met with and interviewed Muhammad Uzair, Chief Designer at Ephlux (an agile enterprise & application development firm) on his views around design thinking. I so... |
| Sep 4, 2013 | Xbox One To Launch Exactly Eight Years After the Xbox 360—But After The PS4 | The release date for Microsoft’s new Xbox One is here at long last: November 22. The date primes Microsoft for the holiday season—you don’t say!—but also puts it a week behind rival Sony, which will launch its PlayStation 4 on November 15.
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| Aug 27, 2013 | The PS4’s halo effect on the PS Vita is kicking into overdrive | We’re now less than three months away from the PS4 launch, and Sony’s momentum in the gaming industry has only increased. Countless developers are lining up to support the PS4, the Xbox One continues to struggle with its identity, and the P... |
| Aug 22, 2013 | Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding campaign falls short by $19M, founder keeps dreaming | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Talk about a spectacular failure: The crowdfunding campaign for the Ubuntu Edge smartphone now has the distinction of being both the la... |
| Aug 3, 2013 | Four big reasons Xbox One, not PS4, will win over the masses | With Microsoft's recently-announced reversal of its anti-consumer DRM policies for the Xbox One, the next gen console war has suddenly been brought back to a level playing field. It's no longer a battle of who had the upper hand at E3 this ... |
| Jul 19, 2013 | Freemium Is Irresistable, Even For Successful Game Companies | The freemium debate continues to rage on. Some say it’s the future of how business will be run, while others say it’s synonymous with casual games (read: not for hardcore gamers). Now the tide appears to be changing for the latter group, sp... |
| Jun 30, 2013 | Can Google Really Crack The Game Console Market? | Look, we’ve all heard the rumors that Google is toiling away on a smartwatch, and the company has said the Nexus Q isn’t completely dead, so part of that recent report from the Wall Street Journal doesn’t completely out of the blue. That sa... |
| Jun 20, 2013 | Photoful Improves On iOS 7’s Photo Gallery With A More Open, Gesture-Based App | Photoful, a new mobile application which is the rebranding and relaunch of the earlier app known as PhotoSocial, is hoping to attract iPhone users who want the Photos experience the new iOS 7 mobile operating system will offer…and then some... |
| Jun 5, 2013 | Софтек в мае или We DO need an education | Марина Бурачевская 5 июня 2013, 17:26 Софтек в мае или We DO need an education
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| Jun 2, 2013 | What Games Are: Who Will Create The No-Bullshit Games Console? | Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a veteran game designer, creator of leading game design blog What Games Are and creative director of Jawfish Games. You can follow him on Twitter here.
In any line of technology there’s always a bit of spin as ... |
| May 11, 2013 | Home Console Gaming May Suffer Death By A Thousand Cuts, Rather Than A Major Revolution | The Ouya is making its way out to backers even now (though my shipping notification still hasn’t arrived. Grrr.) and judging by early impressions, it’s no silver bullet to take down behemoths like Sony and Microsoft. The $99, Android powere... |
| May 9, 2013 | Ouya Launch Delayed By A Few Weeks To Meet “Greater Than Expected Demand” | In February, Ouya announced that the little Android console that could would be launching on June 5. That date has been pushed back by just a little, but those interested in the new console will still be able to get their hands on one in Ju... |
| May 7, 2013 | WordPress’ Share Of The World’s Top Blogs Increases | The majority of the world’s top 100 blogs are using WordPress, according to a new report from Pingdom, and the content management system’s share of these blogs is on the rise.
According to the firm, 52% of these blogs are using WordPress, u... |
| Apr 29, 2013 | Good News, Everyone! It’s The 10 Best Inventions From Futurama | Futurama, the animated comedy from Simpsons creator Matt Groening and writer David X. Cohen, is unparalleled in its ability to mix lowbrow humor with high concept science and technology. But after an initial run on Fox from 1999 to 2003 and... |
| Apr 11, 2013 | Electronic Arts Cuts Jobs At Montreal Studio Less Than Two Weeks After CEO’s Resignation | Electronic Arts is laying off staffers at its Montreal office in another round of job cuts. The news comes less than two weeks after CEO John Riccitiello resigned, citing the company’s financial underperformance.
EA declined to tell Reuters... |
| Apr 6, 2013 | EA executive responds to “worst company” poll: “We owe gamers better performance” | reader comments 191 with 147 posters participating
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| Apr 4, 2013 | Is BioShock Infinite The Last Gasp For The Triple-A “Art Game”? | When it comes to video games, the death knell is rung loudly and frequently. In an industry so intrinsically tied to technological innovation, we won’t stop hearing any time soon about what former trend or gaming mainstay has its head on th... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | Xi3 Says While Piston May Not Be An ‘Official’ Steam Box, It Could Be Better Than One | The Xi3 Piston opened for pre-orders on Monday, and seemed to be the first of many Steam Box type devices powered by Valve’s online gaming store and service. But Valve quickly came out and said that despite their investment in Xi3, the comp... |
| Feb 27, 2013 | What’s the way forward for the gaming industry in Baltimore? | In a year’s time, Big Huge Games, Impossible Studios and, soon, Zynga East will all have closed.
On Monday news surfaced that Zynga will shutter its Timonium office, otherwise known as Zynga East and open since 2009, as part of a broader co... |
| Feb 13, 2013 | AOL Confirms gdgt Acquisition, Quests For tch Domination | AOL (owner of TechCrunch) today is taking one more step to build out its content empire: it has officially confirmed the acquisition of technology reviews site gdgt — first reported by TechCrunch nearly two weeks ago. Gdgt itself is announc... |
| Feb 7, 2013 | Elusive Android gaming tablet re-emerges as cheaper 7-inch version | The Wikipad, miniaturized to 7 inches. reader comments 30 with 21 posters participating
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| Jan 3, 2013 | Requiem For The PlayStation 2: What A Ride It Was | After reports streamed in at the tail end of 2012 of the end to the PlayStation 2’s nearly 13-year lifespan, the predictable response might be “so what?” After all, the end was inevitable – even the most popular game consoles don’t last for... |
| Dec 27, 2012 | 'War Z' Game Producer Lists Non-Existent Features, Blames Customers' Eyesight And Overactive Imagination | As has been discussed here many times, screwing up in public is rarely pleasant, but if the one screwing up takes fast, direct action to respond to the problem and handles complaints with the right blend of contrition and forthrightness, da... |
| Dec 13, 2012 | Hitman HD Trilogy Sneaks Into Retail On January 29 | Hitman: Absolution is apparently a hit. Many gamers, however, are experiencing the escapades of Agent 47 for the first time. There’s a lot of backstory that’s lost on them. Square Enix is fixing that with an HD collection.
It was announced ... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Wii U Gray Market Is Frothy And Heating Up As Scalpers Sell Online | While Gamestop is reporting record Wii U preorders and sales, it looks like the Wii gray market is in full effect, driving prices of the console into the thousands as unyielding children barrack their parents into buying them the latest and... |
| Oct 23, 2012 | In Internal Memo, a Contrite Marc Pincus Admits to Cutting 5 Percent of Zynga’s Full-Time Staffers | In response to questions about layoffs, Zynga emailed Betabeat an internal memo that CEO Marc Pincus sent out to staffers this afternoon. In the note, Mr. Pincus confirmed that the company cut approximately five percent of its full-time wor... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | Steam Starts Selling Windows Apps Just Before Windows Store Launch | As anticipated in August, digital game seller Steam is now offering Windows non-game applications. It acts like a traditional app store. After the reviewing process, apps are available to purchase in a centralized store. Users can choose wh... |
| Aug 24, 2012 | The DeanBeat: OnLive’s fall from grace shows the wrong way to fall apart | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
OnLive founder and chief executive Steve Perlman faced his gathered employees last Friday morning and told them that he was sorry for t... |
| Aug 20, 2012 | OnLive Gaming Service Reboots after Dumping Stock Options, Employees, Investors | Over the weekend, cloud gaming company OnLive went through a sort of quasi-bankruptcy, selling off its assets and leaving its investors, employees, and stockholders out in the cold. The only possible winners? OnLive’s very small number of u... |
| Aug 17, 2012 | Source: OnLive Found A Buyer, Cleaned House To Reduce Liability Prior To Acquisition (UPDATED) | We’re hearing from a reliable source that OnLive’s founder and CEO Steve Perlman finally decided to make an exit — and in the process, is screwing the employees who helped build the company and brand. The cloud gaming company reportedly had... |
| Aug 14, 2012 | Epic Games opens Impossible Studios in Hunt Valley, salvages former Big Huge Games team | Epic Games, Inc., the North Carolina-based game developers responsible for Gears of War 3, has opened Impossible Studios in Hunt Valley, Baltimore County, to bring “world-class game development expertise and creativity to Epic’s growing tea... |
| Aug 7, 2012 | DreamIt Ventures’ William Crowder: ‘I am terrified of crowd-funding’ | William Crowder, of DreamIt Ventures and Comcast Ventures, says most ventures are not cut out for crowd-funding.
Not all ventures are created equal, says William Crowder, a managing partner at DreamIt Ventures and advisor at Comcast Venture... |
| Aug 3, 2012 | Electronic Arts Sues Zynga, Says The Ville Is An “Unmistakable Copy” Of The Sims. Zynga: EA Doesn’t Understand Copyright (Updated) | Zynga has a bit of a reputation for cloning other game developers’ ideas. Now, the company is being sued by gaming giant Electronic Arts on behalf of its Maxis label for “infringing EA’s copyrights to its Facebook game, The Sims Social.”
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| Aug 1, 2012 | Seattle Fundraising Notes: Contour, Adapx, Jawfish, Solavei, Motiga | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Updated 11:45 am with more on Motiga
Who said summer was a time for taking vacation? Around the Seattle region, it appears, startup companies have been putting the finishing t... |
| Jun 27, 2012 | Infinity Blade is more profitable than Gears of War | The gaming industry has frequently been dominated by expensive triple-A titles, but the continuing popularity of social and mobile gaming may change that. If you need proof, look no further than Epic Games, a developer famous for making pop... |
| Jun 14, 2012 | Benchmark Capital Invests $5.5M In thatgamecompany To Take Emotional Gaming Beyond The Console | thatgamecompany has made a series of critically acclaimed games for the Sony PlayStation 3, but with its three-title contract fulfilled, it’s now looking to produce games for other platforms independently. To do that, it’s raised $5.5 milli... |
| Jun 3, 2012 | Meet The Wii U Gamepad, Nintendo’s Answer To Gaming On The iPad | Details are still just mainly technical, but Nintendo just took the wraps off the final version of the Wii U’s controller, now named Gamepad. This came during Nintendo’s somewhat surprising pre-E3 press conference. The controller itself loo... |
| May 17, 2012 | 6 reasons E3 might suck this year | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Next month’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, taking place in Los Angeles from June 5-7, is starting to look a little sparse.
While the a... |
| May 7, 2012 | EA Tempers Coming Layoffs With $1.2B In Digital Revs For The Year, Promise Of “Big Social Title” | EA’s big shift toward treating games as services instead of packaged goods is going to mean restructuring this year.
Chief executive John Riccitiello said in today’s earnings call that there will be some layoffs as the company increases pro... |
| May 7, 2012 | Angry Birds maker hits $106M in sales; 648M downloads | Finnish game developer establishes could go public in 2013
The other day, I was standing in line at a store with my five-year-old son, who asked me to buy him some Angry Birds candy. This follows a recent purchase of an Angry Birds sweatshi... |
| Apr 25, 2012 | Please Welcome TechCrunch’s New COO, Veteran Exec And Entrepreneur Ned Desmond | There’s lots going on behind the scenes here at TechCrunch — not only are we hiring top writers and putting together a kick-ass lineup for Disrupt in New York next month, we’re also getting a chief operating officer (among other moves soon ... |
| Apr 4, 2012 | Cipher Prime hits Kickstarter funding goal for Auditorium Duet, while IH8Zombies Kickstarter lags | This is a tale of two Philadelphia-based game developers who are experimenting with Kickstarter to fund the video games of their dreams.
Cipher Prime, the Old City-based game development shop of Auditorium and Fractal fame, crushed its fund... |
| Apr 1, 2012 | Roundup of the tech and game-related April Fool’s gags | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Here’s a roundup of the tech or game-related April Fools jokes of the day. Did any of these trick you?
Conan O’Brien buys Mashable and ... |
| Apr 1, 2012 | Roundup of the tech and game-related April Fool’s gags | Here’s a roundup of the tech or game-related April Fools jokes of the day. Did any of these trick you?
Conan O’Brien buys Mashable and boots out Pete Cashmore.
Sony comes up with the world’s smallest Ultrabook. Its screen size is three-four... |
| Mar 13, 2012 | Mojang and Bethesda Reach A Settlement In 'Scrolls' Trademark Dispute | In one of the biggest letdowns in trademark history, Bethesda and Mojang have finally ended the dispute over the trademark status of the name “Scrolls”. No massive court battle. No Quake 3 match. Just a simple settlement. In a very short po... |
| Mar 13, 2012 | Cipher Prime launches Kickstarter to raise money for Auditorium sequel, major turning point for Old City gamers [VIDEO] | Auditorium was the first born of Old City gaming outfit Cipher Prime.
To hear them talk about the game is to endure the pride of doting parents. To some extent the pride is founded — the award-winning, color-saturated, whimsical game opened... |
| Feb 27, 2012 | Meteor Entertainment raises $10M to fund Hawken online mech game (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Meteor Entertainment has raised $10 million in a bid to launch a downloadable online game called Hawken. Aimed at hardcore gamers who b... |
| Feb 27, 2012 | Meteor Entertainment raises $10M to fund Hawken online mech game (exclusive) | Meteor Entertainment has raised $10 million in a bid to launch a downloadable online game called Hawken. Aimed at hardcore gamers who battle each other online, Hawken is a fast-action shooting game where players can equip themselves with gi... |
| Feb 9, 2012 | $1m in 1 Day: Meet Double Fine, the New Kings of Kickstarter | Late last night Jane McGonigal, the most respected authority in the world of gamification, Tweeted that she’d pitched in to support the creation of a new point and click adventure game from respected game development shop Double Fine. That ... |
| Feb 9, 2012 | New Kickstarter Record Set As Double Fine Game Hits $400K In 8 Hours, $1M In A Day | If you played PC games in the 90s, chances are you played some of Tim Schafer’s work. He worked on the Monkey Island Series and Day of the Tentacle, later going on to create such classics as Grim Fandango and Psychonauts. He recently took t... |
| Feb 6, 2012 | Meteor Games to publish high-end online game Hawken in December (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hawken is one of the coolest online games in development for publication on the web. Adhesive Games, the startup studio that is making ... |
| Feb 3, 2012 | PS Vita: Too Much, Too Late | UPDATE: After a few weeks with the hardware, I've posted a full review. |
| Jan 14, 2012 | Surprises abound as Amazon reveals its 10 best-selling games of 2011 | Amazon has released its top-selling digital and physical game titles from 2011. The online retailer has quickly become the quintessential center of great gaming deals, release-day shipping, and exclusive pre-order bonuses (including up to $... |
| Jan 14, 2012 | Surprises abound as Amazon reveals its 10 best-selling games of 2011 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Amazon has released its top-selling digital and physical game titles from 2011. The online retailer has quickly become the quintessenti... |
| Jan 13, 2012 | DeanBeat: Game companies went on a $2.8B buying spree in 2011 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The social and mobile games gold rush inspired lots of investments in 2011, as venture capitalists tried to find the next Zynga. But th... |
| Jan 13, 2012 | Attention Future Media Moguls: We Are Looking For A Killer COO | One of the best jobs in media just opened up: running TechCrunch’s business and AOL’s other technology properties (Engadget, Joystiq, and The Unofficial Apple Weblog). AOL is hiring a COO (apply here) to lead all of its technology propertie... |
| Jan 13, 2012 | DeanBeat: Game companies went on a $2.8B buying spree in 2011 | The social and mobile games gold rush inspired lots of investments in 2011, as venture capitalists tried to find the next Zynga. But the year was also a big one for acquisitions, particularly as big companies such as Electronic Arts tried t... |
| Jan 3, 2012 | No, Sony Electronics, Nintendo And EA Have NOT Publicly Changed Their Position On SOPA | It’s amazing how a little bad reporting turns into a big story. Late last week, we saw a report on Business Insider, by Matt Lynley, claiming that Nintendo, EA and Sony Electronics had dropped support of SOPA. However, the reporting on this... |
| Dec 30, 2011 | Joystiq’s Fishtown editor Chris Grant is leaving [LINKS] | Nurturing a nascent video game industry in Philadelphia [NewsWorks]
This Is Philly [Hidden City] – The 2012 Maskar Philly Calendar and Almanac shipped. We covered the effort last year.
Azavea app for travelers finds nearest emergency rooms ... |
| Dec 28, 2011 | Monetate: How to get hired by a startup [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Dec 27, 2011 | 12 Big Questions for Seattle Tech in 2012 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I don’t want to read too much into the arbitrary turn of the calendar, but it seems like we’re in the middle of a pretty interesting moment for Seattle’s technology scene.
One... |
| Dec 27, 2011 | AOL media talent loss continues: Joystiq editor departing for Vox | AOL is losing another top employee from its media division — this time it’s video-game blog Joystiq’s Editor, Chris Grant, who made the announcement in a post today.
The exodus, which was first announced in a personal blog post by Engadget ... |
| Dec 27, 2011 | AOL media talent loss continues: Joystiq editor departing for Vox | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
AOL is losing another top employee from its media division — this time it’s video-game blog Joystiq’s Editor, Chris Grant, who made the... |
| Dec 16, 2011 | Square Enix online service hacked, 1.8 million affected | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Final Fantasy and Deus Ex publisher Square Enix says unknown parties may have gained unauthorized access to one of its servers in a hac... |
| Dec 15, 2011 | For publishers, the next consoles mean new digital revenue streams | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 weren’t designed with a wide array of post-release revenue opportunities in mind, which h... |
| Dec 15, 2011 | For publishers, the next consoles mean new digital revenue streams | Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 weren’t designed with a wide array of post-release revenue opportunities in mind, which has caused a number of video game publishers to implement slipshod measures such as online passes or subsc... |
| Nov 24, 2011 | Peter Molyneux parody account ‘Molydeux’ suspended by Twitter | The Twitter account parodying Peter Molyneux, the legendary English game designer and Microsoft Europe creative director, has recently been suspended.
The account — which gained over 19,000 followers and cited by many as the funniest accoun... |
| Nov 24, 2011 | Peter Molyneux parody account ‘Molydeux’ suspended by Twitter | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Twitter account parodying Peter Molyneux, the legendary English game designer and Microsoft Europe creative director, has recently ... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Battlefield 3 suffers severe launch issues, players outraged [Updated] | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Update [11/07/11]: EA has sent along some information on the current status of the Battlefield 3 servers. According to VP of Public Rel... |
| Oct 24, 2011 | Nintendo Fans Hijack Twitter Hash Tag Meant For Nintendo Of America CEO And Are Promptly Ignored | On Friday October 21, Nintendo America’s President, Reggie Fils-Aime, took to Twitter in a bit of PR for some recent announcements from the company. However a lot of Twitter users took this to mean that he would actually be communicating wi... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Microsoft Files More Patents For Dual-Screen Swiss Army Knife Slider Phone | I could swear that I’ve had a dream about this before, or at least written about it*, but it looks like Microsoft beat me to the patent office. On September 22, Microsoft filed the “Mobile Communication Device Having Multiple, Interchangeab... |
| Sep 13, 2011 | Sony’s Playstation Vita To Hit Japan On December 17 | Sony is currently holding a press conference in Tokyo where the company said that the Playstation Vita, its new handheld console, will hit stores in Japan on December 17, just in time for the holidays (this decision was kind of announced la... |
| Sep 13, 2011 | The Ghastly Nintendo 3DS Slidepad Is Real, Ships To Japan This December | Nintendo took to the Tokyo Game Show stage today to announce several new products including the new features of 3D video capture and upgraded online distribution. But they didn’t announce the Slidepad. Instead, the 3DS add-on just appeared ... |
| Sep 2, 2011 | DOOM No Longer Considered Harmful To Children In Germany, Allowed Into The Country | I’ve heard plenty of things about draconian anti-video game laws in Australia, but I had no idea that Germany had a “Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons,” which had effectively banned such dangerous games as DOOM and DOOM2... |
| Aug 26, 2011 | EA's Origin Service Wants To Exchange Games For Your Personal Data [Updated] | Just when you thought no one would be able to top the various levels of DRM insanity plied by Ubisoft in its quixotic quest to end piracy as we know it, something else comes along that’s bigger and badder than the nuisances that preceded it... |
| Aug 25, 2011 | GameStop steals free games from its customers | Two years ago, I apologized to GameStop and its employees for buying consoles that used web-based app stores to sell games because they would ultimately render the physical video game retail store irrelevant.
Today, I'm withdrawing that apo... |
| Aug 19, 2011 | Retail giant GameStop testing a game streaming service | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
GameStop is the world’s biggest game retailer, with more than 6,000 physical stores around the world. But the company is preparing for ... |