Games Industry moving to mobile platforms like Android/Linux

[quote] Video games industry: Rise of the 'bedroom' developer On 17 August 2010, one of the UK's biggest games companies - Dundee-based Realtime Worlds - went into administration with the loss of more than 150 jobs. The company's collapse followed ...

Message posted on the August 29th, 2011 - 10:53 AM ET

Leading Games Industry Figures Join PlayJam

PlayJam, the world’s leading Smart TV games platform, welcomes games industry leaders to its board and advisory, including Tony Bartel; GameStop President, Charles Huang; co-founder of Red Octane and Chris Lee; ...

Press published on the March 20th, 2012 - 9:30 AM ET

Research and Markets: 2011 China's Games Industry Annual Review & Five-Year Forecast Report

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/930bfc/2011_chinas_games) has announced the addition of the "2011 China's Games Industry Annual Review & Five-Year Forecast Report" report to their ...

Press published on the October 10th, 2011 - 6:29 AM ET

Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Scaleform Corporation – Provider of User Interface Solutions for the Games Industry

Acquisition Expands Autodesk’s Reach in Console, Casual and Mobile Games Market.

Press published on the March 1st, 2011 - 3:30 PM ET

New Online, International Directory for Serious Games Industry Offers Free Listings for Titles, Tech, Services, Textbooks and Schools

The Serious Games Association today announced a new, international resource for developers, providers, analysts and consultants, the Serious Games Directory. All listings and access will be available free in 2012. ...

Press published on the March 27th, 2012 - 7:00 AM ET

Chillingo and Samsung’s “100% Indie” Developer Program Offers Best Revenue Share in Mobile Games Industry

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS – Chillingo, the leading indie mobile games publisher and division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA), and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced a partnership to fuel the mobile games ...

Press published on the February 27th, 2013 - 3:00 AM ET

Virtual Piggy Intensifies Presence in Toys and Games Industry Signing Numerous Family-Friendly Merchants

Momentum Builds for Virtual Piggy’s Innovative e-Commerce Solution.

Press published on the April 24th, 2012 - 6:00 AM ET

Online Games Leader - GameHouse® Launches On PlayJam – the Premier Destination for Games on TV

PlayJam, the world's largest TV games network, has partnered with GameHouse®, a leader in the online casual games industry worldwide to bring fantastic games to Connected TV via the PlayJam Games Platform. ...

Press published on the January 6th, 2012 - 8:11 AM ET

Educational Video Games Mix Cool With Purpose chinagoshop.com

One of KC Phillips’s favorite video games is the Xbox shoot-’em-up Halo, because, he says, his dad taught him how to play it when he was younger. Librado Romero/The New York Times Sixth graders at Gamestar Mechanic, which allows ...

Message posted on the July 22nd, 2010 - 7:01 AM ET

[News] Nokia's Linux Phones Platform Gains Broad Support from Industry

Hash: SHA1 MeeGo Linux coming to netbooks, smartbooks soon ,-[ Quote ] | The folks behind the MeeGo Linux project | launched the first public beta version of | the operating system recently. But that’s | just the first step. MeeGo is backed ...

Message posted on the April 14th, 2010 - 8:20 PM ET

Why Open Sores Software Sucks

Have you ever realized how much development occurred because of commercial software companies? Development of software industry, internet market, game industry, virtual worlds, movies all these things are because of commercial software industry, not ...

Message posted on the October 21st, 2009 - 4:29 PM ET

Sony and the "ten-year" console: a look at the argument

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/sony-ten-year-plan.ars Sony and the "ten-year" console: a look at the argument By Ben Kuchera | Published: January 21, 2009 - 07:00AM CT A look at what Sony wants, and what it has In a time when ...

Message posted on the January 22nd, 2009 - 5:38 PM ET

M$'s Software War

<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/technology/07piracy.html> Chasing Pirates: Inside Microsoft's War Room By ASHLEE VANCE AS the sun rose over the mountains circling Los Reyes, a town in the Mexican state of Michoac‡n, one morning in ...

Message posted on the November 7th, 2010 - 3:01 AM ET

Microsoft "Fast Facts" for Best Buy

On Sep 24, 8:01 pm, Marti van Lin <ml2...@gmail.com> wrote: This is a pretty outdated article (2009), yet made me ROTFLMAO. Microsoft's Best Buy Lies about Linux debunked By Rami Taibah [quote] In an effort to thwart Linux sales on netbooks, ...

Message posted on the September 25th, 2010 - 5:43 AM ET