We’re at the end of the lifespan of the current generation of consoles, so the focus has been on the depth of story. When the new generation of hardware comes out, people will revel in the graphics and story will be swept aside again.
– Shadowrun creator Jordan Weisman
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 21 at 7:00 am PT
Videogames are fast becoming one of the most popular categories that are able to attract start-up capital from everyday people.
Eric Johnson in Commerce on May 17 at 2:47 pm PT
Combine small teams, personal passion and a large accessible market and you have the makings of a creative explosion.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 15 at 6:00 am PT
According to SuperData, strategy and combat games are starting to perform better than traditional farming games.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 7 at 7:00 am PT
Since the company’s last earnings release, Electronic Arts’ stock has tumbled 20 percent. Can the company’s Q4 results — coming out later today — be enough to turn things around?
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 2 at 12:00 pm PT
CrowdStar has landed $11.5 million in fresh capital to help it complete its transformation from developing social games to mobile games.
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 2 at 10:43 am PT
The Verge is reporting that next week Microsoft is planning to sell subscriptions for the Xbox, similarly to how wireless carriers sell phones. Under the plan, the Xbox plus Kinect will cost $99 plus $15 a month for two years, including access to the Xbox Live Gold service and its streaming TV and music. Right now, the package appears to be cheaper than paying upfront for the console, though that doesn’t factor in any future price discounts for the aging hardware.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 27 at 11:54 am PT
For the first time in four years, games are not the top category of applications on the phone.
The same way we make other decisions: by waiting for someone to decide that it’s the right thing to do, and then letting them recruit other people to work on it with them. We believe in each other to make these decisions, and this faith has proven to be well-founded over and over again.
– From page 13 of the Valve Handbook for New Employees
They all seem pitched toward the same mythical viewer, presumably the one prized by Internet advertisers, whose mind appears to be occupied with a sticky mix of celebrity gossip, blockbuster movies, video games, zombies, action sports and news of the weird.
– Mike Hale of the New York Times, writing about new channels on YouTube
