EA’s Patrick Soderlund promises to deliver ‘something special’ with Battlefield 4 (interview)

March 29, 2013 5:00 pm

Electronic Arts unveiled Battlefield 4 at a special event this week during the Game Developers Conference. EA has a lot riding on the… Continue reading ⟩

MeritShare finds a way to gamifiy employee recognition (exclusive)

December 19, 2012 2:00 pm

MeritShare has figured out a new way to give employees recognition through game-like incentives. The Seattle-based startup is one more… Continue reading ⟩

My Christmas wish is for Nintendo to stop developing hardware

December 18, 2012 4:06 am

“Blasphemy!” I hear everyone cry. “Nintendo has made some of the best systems ever!” And I have to agree. Who… Continue reading ⟩

The three hottest hires in Silicon Valley

December 2, 2012 7:25 pm

This guest post is by Jim Yu, the founder and chief executive of BrightEdge. Every Silicon Valley company knows how… Continue reading ⟩

Venture capital picks up the Moneyball strategy

November 9, 2012 4:00 pm

A Moneyball-style revolution is taking place in venture capital. Just as the renegade general manager of the Oakland A’s flouted… Continue reading ⟩

Why Borderlands 2 is more exciting than Diablo 3

September 21, 2012 9:12 pm

Every year at every convention, seemingly every member of the press reminds his small percentage of the community that this… Continue reading ⟩

Funding Daily: 8 on 8/8

August 9, 2012 12:09 am

It’s 8/8 today, and I have eight funding announcements. Coincidence? I think not. Now if only one of them had raised… Continue reading ⟩

Game designer crosses over from making Halo games to Zynga’s social games — he’s never going back (interview)

August 6, 2012 3:30 pm

Zynga has lots of veterans like Jim Veevaert, a general manager of the social game company’s studio in Seattle. An… Continue reading ⟩

Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to “tongue controllers”

July 25, 2012 5:00 pm

Gabe Newell (pictured top right) is the chief executive and co-founder of Valve, the award-winning game publisher and creator of… Continue reading ⟩

Armored Core V: A blend of motorheads and samurai

March 29, 2012 11:19 pm

The opening cinematic for Armored Core V is a foreshadowing of hardcore hardware porn. Heavy industrial behemoths known as armored… Continue reading ⟩