9 posts and columns on multiplayer

Strong Holiday Sales Boost Take-Two Interactive's Q3 Earnings

in Commerce on February 8, 2011 at 1:32 pm PT

Strong holiday sales enabled Take-Two Interactive to deliver better-than-expected revenues in the third quarter and turn a profit for the nine-month period after reporting losses a year earlier.

McGonigal Launches Social Chocolate to Make Life "Gameful"

in Social on January 20, 2011 at 12:07 pm PT

In addition to her new book, “Reality is Broken,” game designer Jane McGonigal is today launching a new company called Social Chocolate to create games that make reality engaging.

Interviewing Jane McGonigal on Gamification for Good

in Social on January 19, 2011 at 11:05 am PT

Game designer and researcher Jane McGonigal thinks gaming is much more than an idle escapist pursuit–it’s a way to bring out the best in people and society.

Nintendo Gives Itself High Fives for Wii and DS Franchises

in Commerce on January 4, 2011 at 8:13 am PT

Now that the year has wrapped up, Nintendo is claiming to have broken two industry-wide records in 2010 to make its portable DS franchise and the Wii two of the best-selling game systems of all time. But is past prologue?

Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield Talks About His New Game Start-Up, Glitch

in News on August 23, 2010 at 9:40 am PT

Last Friday, BoomTown dropped in on Stewart Butterfield–now ensconced in Vancouver, Canada–to see what the Flickr co-founder has been up to since decamping from Yahoo a while back. Yahoo bought the innovative British Columbia-based photo-sharing service in 2005 for upward of $25 million. Now it seems Butterfield is back where he started, since Flickr was actually initially part of an original gaming project called Game Neverending. Apparently, it never did end, and now there is Glitch. Almost, that is.

The ABCs of Wii, Xbox and PlayStation 3

in The Digital Solution on December 8, 2009 at 4:47 pm PT

Here’s what shoppers need to know about the three most popular gaming systems, the Nintendo Wii, the Microsoft XBox 360 and the Sony Playstation 3.

Live from Apple's "Let's Rock" Event: iPod Updates, Games, Nano Video Cameras

in News on September 9, 2009 at 10:33 am PT

Apple has sold some 225 million iPods to date, making it one of the most popular electronic devices ever. And it’s sure to sell even more after the updates the company announced at this morning’s event in San Francisco. Among them: Larger, cheaper iPod touches and nanos with cameras and FM radios.
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Live from Apple’s “Let’s Rock” Event: iPod Updates, Games, Nano Video Cameras

in News on September 9, 2009 at 10:33 am PT

Apple has sold some 225 million iPods to date, making it one of the most popular electronic devices ever. And it’s sure to sell even more after the updates the company announced at this morning’s event in San Francisco. Among them: Larger, cheaper iPod touches and nanos with cameras and FM radios.
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Chinese Action–the Virtual Kind–in U.S. Stocks

in News on March 19, 2009 at 9:31 am PT

Sohu.com, one of China’s largest Internet companies, hopes U.S. investors like its hack-and-slash videogames enough to give it as much as $120 million. The Beijing-based company filed this week for an initial public offering of American depositary shares for its online game subsidiary, Changyou.com, on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The company started its road show presentations for investors in Hong Kong Wednesday, and will issue the price of the deal in the coming week, said company executives.