JUNE 3, 2008 • Resistance: Fall of Man developer Insomniac Games will open a new studio in North Carolina by January 2009. The decision was made to better acquire developer talent that doesn’t want to leave the East Coast. Impact: A sure sign of business expansion is opening an .....

JUNE 3, 2008 • After one week in release, Funcom’s Age of Conan MMO jumped to No. 1 on PC games sales charts in Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Italy and Australia. Funcom has shipped more than 1 million units of the game in three weeks. Impact: W.....

JUNE 02, 2008 • After only six years in operation, Big Fish Games is living up to its name. With operations in North America, Germany, France, Spain and Japan; this online casual operation has a growing impact on the segment worldwide. The company was also early into the social networking area .....

JUNE 2, 2008 • Since its launch in South Korea on April 26, the Korea Times reported that only 35,000 to 40,000 Wiis have been sold in the market. Nintendo Co. Ltd. has not announced official sales figures for South Korea, but the estimates indicate that Korean gamers are not happy with the region coding that pre.....

MAY 29, 2008 • There is a great deal of interest around virtual world online games.  Much of this interest is occurring in companies that are not traditional players in the game space.  This includes the large media companies that are interested in the significant user numbers that popular online games are now able to command. While big massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) like World of Warcraft and Age of Conan costs tens of millions of dollars to produce, and can take five .....

MAY 27, 2008 • Grand Theft Auto IV is selling more units on the Xbox 360 platform in the U.K. than the PlayStation 3, according to research form Chart-Track. In the four weeks after the game’s launch 750,000 units out of a total of 1.3 million have been Xbox 360 versions. What’s more, during that time, sales of the Microsoft console ha.....