Mojang hires new vice president

Mojang hires new vice president:
Jonas Mårtensson takes role at Minecraft studio

Digital console revenue to surpass PC this year

Digital console revenue to surpass PC this year:
IDC report forecasts new console launches as the catalyst for market shift

Card Hunter Review

Card Hunter Review:
Dungeons & Dragons has had an unquestionable influence on Western video games. Dungeon crawlers, role-playing games, and many more can trace their roots to that bastion of nerdom, and Card Hunter taps into its inspiration in a spectacularly fun way. A clever fusion of dice-based games and the more recent trading card games like Magic: The Gathering, Card Hunter is one of the most mechanically solid and engaging free-to-play games since League of Legends.

Gree offers redundancy to 11 per cent of workforce

Gree offers redundancy to 11 per cent of workforce:
Mobile firm seeks to reduce headcount by 200, closes Osaka office

Build A Ship, Lose The Ship, Build Another Ship, Go Shoot Some Ships

Build A Ship, Lose The Ship, Build Another Ship, Go Shoot Some Ships:
Defect SDK is a game about designing a ship, building it then going off into space to do some damage. The catch being that

MMO Family: Highlights from ROBLOX's Virtual BLOXcon

MMO Family: Highlights from ROBLOX's Virtual BLOXcon:
Filed under: Free-to-Play, Kids, MMO Family, Family MMO conventions are always a good opportunity for fans to meet each other and for developers to

Upstart tablet aims high

Upstart tablet aims high:
The unu is an Android tablet, a smart TV and a gaming console at a competitive price, but is that enough to succeed?

Deer Hunter 2014 Review

Deer Hunter 2014 Review:
I've never been big on hunting games. It's not that I take issue with gunning down (mostly) defenseless virtual animals with ridiculously overpowered military hardware, although it is pretty ridiculous

Opinion: When counting software sales, what's a 'unit' anyway?

Opinion: When counting software sales, what's a 'unit' anyway?:
The way that video game software has evolved leaves Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews wondering: What counts as a

A Mild-Mannered Reporter: A marvelous, titanic super-hero September

A Mild-Mannered Reporter: A marvelous, titanic super-hero September:
Filed under: Super-hero, Culture, MMO Industry, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Marvel Heroes, A Mild-Mannered Reporter I'm

ArcheAge: RU Gonna Play?

ArcheAge: RU Gonna Play?:
While North American players have been clamoring for more information about when ArcheAge's beta might begin, Russian players have had a ton of great news this week. In our latest column, we

They're Making A New City of Heroes. Kind Of.

They're Making A New City of Heroes. Kind Of.:
As you may have heard, City of Heroes, one of the oldest superhero MMORPGs, is no more. But its spirit lives on, apparently. In a Kickstarter

Battle and usability being improved in The Repopulation

Battle and usability being improved in The Repopulation:
Filed under: Betas, Sci-Fi, Game Mechanics, Patches, News Items, Sandbox, The Repopulation Someone always wants to play a melee character.

Knack companion mobile app is a free puzzle game

Knack companion mobile app is a free puzzle game:
Sony plans to release a free companion mobile app for Knack, the upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive, according to Sony...

32 titles hit Steam Greenlight: Eldritch, Hyper Light Drifter, and more

32 titles hit Steam Greenlight: Eldritch, Hyper Light Drifter, and more:
Valve has approved 32 more titles on Steam Greenlight. This batch includes games such as Eldritch, a first-person

Disney confirms closure of Blackwood & Bell Mysteries on Facebook

Disney confirms closure of Blackwood & Bell Mysteries on Facebook:
Image via Disney / Playdom Disney / Playdom’s Blackwood & Bell Mysteries is coming to a close on Facebook. Players

Bethesda Softworks opens Sydney office

Bethesda Softworks opens Sydney office:
Simon Alty appointed as MD for territory

Hearthstone wipes beta progress and institutes patch

Hearthstone wipes beta progress and institutes patch:
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Betas, Fantasy, Patches, Free-to-Play, Trading Card Games The day long feared/anticipated is here: Hearthstone is

Marvel Heroes: Sweet Christmas! It's Patch 1.3!

Marvel Heroes: Sweet Christmas! It's Patch 1.3!:
Sweet Christmas! Marvel Heroes patch 1.3 dropped recently and we've got the all the details straight from the mouth of creative director Jeff "Doomsaw" Donais.

Layoffs at Sega of America

Layoffs at Sega of America:
Representative confirms company has "undergone a restructure" resulting in unspecified number of job cuts. Sega of America has cut an unspecified number of jobs as part of a restructuring process,

Q& A: Card Hunter - launching an online game with a small team

Q& A: Card Hunter - launching an online game with a small team:
Irrational Games co-founder Jon Chey recently launched Card Hunter under his new studio, Blue Manchu. The veteran game developer tells us about launching

Stardock deals itself in to the mobile market.

Stardock deals itself in to the mobile market.:
Stardock deals itself in to the mobile market. Dead Man's Draw, a rather spiffy-looking card game for iOS, marks the developer's debut on mobile platforms.

EverQuest Next: An MMO In Its Own Right

EverQuest Next: An MMO In Its Own Right:
According to a new interview at Forbes.com, EverQuest Next: Landmark is described by Dave Georgeson as a "full blown MMO" and that combat

New iOS Games Tonight: Ring Run Circus, Nakama and more!

New iOS Games Tonight: Ring Run Circus, Nakama and more!:
I would like to ask everyone who may be reading these brief introductory paragraphs right now to kindly disregard the frantic pace with which I am typing