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Disney Axes LucasArts Game Development
April 3, 2013
[caption id="attachment_6776" align="alignleft" width="314"] Despite a long history of successful games like 1995's Dark Forces that were produced in-house, Disney has decided to focus LucasArts on managing the licensing of...
Total War Arena Coming
March 29, 2013
MARCH 29, 2013 • The online battle arena segment is getting rather crowded. In addition to Defense of the Ancients (DotA) and League of Legends (LoL), a slew of challengers...
OpenKit Fills OpenFeint Hole
March 25, 2013
MARCH 25, 2013 • Ready for exposure at this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is a new open source backend-as-a-service platform for mobile phones and tablets called OpenKit....
WBIE Opens San Francisco Mobile HQ
March 25, 2013
MARCH 25, 2013 • Later this year Warner Bros. Interactive Ent. (WBIE) will open a new studio dedicated to developing and publishing free-to-play mobile, social and browser-based games from the...
Tencent Revenue Strong for Fourth Quarter
March 21, 2013
MARCH 21, 2013 • China's Tencent Holdings Ltd. rode growth in smartphone ownership and its League of Legends online arena game to a strong fourth quarter ending Dec. 31. Total...
John Riccitiello Out at Electronic Arts
March 19, 2013
[caption id="attachment_6605" align="alignleft" width="390"] Former Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello.[/caption] MARCH 19, 2013 • Six years after taking the reins at Electronic Arts, John Riccitiello resigned as chief executive and...
PlayStation Vita Sales Upswing In Japan
March 15, 2013
[caption id="attachment_6319" align="alignleft" width="293"] Sega's Phantasy Star Online 2 has become much more popular in Japan since the PS Vita was reduced in price there.[/caption] MARCH 15, 2013 • Moving...
Has Apple Changed the Rules?
March 12, 2013
[caption id="attachment_6103" align="alignleft" width="390"] Many competitors would like to cut Apple down to size.[/caption] MARCH 12, 2013 • Sometimes life just isn’t fair. You can work and study hard, make...