Interview: Funzio Grabs the Spotlight
DEC. 7, 2011 • Amongst the slew of new start-ups in the social network and mobile game space during 2011, Funzio stood out for several reasons. First, there was the $20 million in funding through IDG Ventures in the U.S. and IDG Capital Partners in China. Next, came the hiring away of Jamil Moledina from Electronic Arts last November. Moledina was director of business development at EA Partners, the publisher’s third party d.....
Interview: Corsair Still Sets Own Course
NOV. 26, 2011 • One of the side effects of video game cycles that stretch on for a decade or more is that the game technology torch is passed to personal computers. While console development is locked into a stationary hardware specification, developers who want to push into advanced content territory can only do so on PCs.
There’s a stable core of gamers out there who are well aware of this technology shift, and who modify,.....
Interview: Atypically Social, Kabam
OCT. 5, 2011 • One game company that has successfully avoided the me-too, casual game approach on Facebook is Kabam. Against all of the conventional wisdom of what sells on social networks, Kabam has gone after males with core strategy titles. That novel approach has netted the firm a smaller than typical use.....
Interview: En Masse Still High On Subscriptions
AUG. 11, 2011 • MMOs are changing. There’s the wide adoption of the virtual item, free-to-play (F2P) model, of course. Embracing F2P for MMOs can attract an audience that may not have tried the same game if a retail box purchase and a monthly subscription were necessary. Yet lowering the barriers to playing MMOs is not a substitute for originality. The traditional, Dungeons & Dragons ruleset-based fantasy experience that predominates in these online games .....
