February 16, 2015
The Lesson of Peter Molyneux
If you pay any attention to the gaming world, it’s hard not to notice the unfortunate flameout of Peter Molyneux. Once a respected figure, now synonymous with fanciful…
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February 15, 2015
Could Nvidia Win Big With A GRID Game Streaming Box?
Nvidia has a streaming game service called GRID, which it debuted last year via its Shield dedicated Android gaming devices. The maker of PC and mobile gaming graphics…
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One Year In, Nadella Is Planning Microsoft’s Long And Short Game
Golfers like to talk about their long game and their short game. Maybe it’s useful to look at Microsoft’s strategy that way too. Since Satya Nadella took over…
Read articleFebruary 10, 2015
Fates Forever-Maker Hammer & Chisel Raises Additional Funding From Tencent, Benchmark
Hammer & Chisel, the core gaming startup founded by Jason Citron, an early pioneer in smartphone gaming, just raised additional funding from Tencent, Benchmark Capital and YouWeb’s 9+.…
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Is Premium Mobile Gaming Viable?
We can look at success stories and naysayers, but the question of whether a real push into premium on mobile is utterly open. In this post/thought-experiment I’m asking…
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Industrial Toys Launches Midnight Star, Its Mobile Reinvention Of The First-Person Shooter
For the past couple of years, the team at Industrial Toys has been talking about building mobile games for the “core” gaming audience — the kind of player…
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For Kids, TV Takes A Backseat To Gaming
Move over, millennials, kids are once again the top priority for marketers. Thanks to a confluence of factors, children have become the most valuable consumer segment of all.…
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New Nintendo 3DS XL Review: A Big Upgrade For Now, And For The Future
The *New* Nintendo 3DS XL doesn’t exactly have a name that rolls off the tongue, but it does reflect that what you’re getting is hardware that’s very similar…
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Sony Sells MMO Publisher And EverQuest Creator Sony Online Entertainment
Sony has sold Sony Online Entertainment, the studio and publisher that created EverQuest (and, to a large extent, the modern MMO genre), in a deal that will see…
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Super Bowl 2015 Ads Are All About The Big (Mobile) Game
There were 49 new, nationally televised commercials that aired last night during Super Bowl XLIX. While most of them were for older, established brands, a handful of them…
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