MARCH 17, 2008 • Proponents of digital download sales of video games will take heart in a recent NPD Group report that downloads account for 33% of all music sales. The research firm estimates that the number of online music buyers grew from 28 million in 2007 to 36 million in 2008. .....

MARCH 12, 2008 • PlayFirst is a venture-funded company launched in 2004 as an online casual game publisher with $5 million in initial funding. At the time the casual game market was led by the large portal sites that specialized in aggregating games from many different small developers. There were some big hits such.....

MARCH 11, 2008 • While most major game publishers have found success on Nintendo’s hot platforms elusive, Majesco Ent. has had no problems leveraging the success of the Wii and DS. For the first fiscal quarter ending Jan. 31, the publisher reported net revenue grew 75% to $32.8 million, and net.....

MARCH 10, 2008 • According to JLM Pacific Epoch, since the end of Chinese New Year festivities on Feb. 1 the Chinese government has rejected two separate applications by Activision Blizzard partner The9 for the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion. The rejections were based on objectionable content......

MARCH 7, 2008 • FIFA Online 2 will launch in Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam during the thirdquarter. EA is partnering with IAH Games in Singapore to launch the game in those markets, plus seven more countries in Asia to follow later. FIFA Online is already a success in Korea, with more tha.....

MARCH 7, 2008 • Public and developer response to the iPhone is so large that reports surfaced of a burgeoning backlog in processing developer contracts at Apple Inc. Approvals that once took several days are now taking several months, according to AppleInsider. The delays affect new and renewal application.....

MARCH 5, 2008 • Sega Sammy Holdings reported that its Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games had sold more than 5 million units. Available on the Wii and DS platforms, the game pits Nintendo’s Mario against Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog in a series of Olympic events. Impa.....