Another Facebook game company joins a big publisher this year with The Walt Disney Company absorbing social games developer Playdom Inc. The deal should go into effect before the end of Disney’s 2010 fiscal year.
According to the press release announcing the move, Playdom brings in about 42 million active players to its various social games [...]
In what has to be one of the cleverest ways to describe an expansion, Atari has launched ‘Season Two’ of Star Trek Online with new enemies, missions, an increased level cap, and a new low price for the game — $20.
According to the official announcement from Atari, the free downloadable season is subtitled Ancient Enemies [...]
This year’s big three music game releases are crafting wildly different identities, and each game’s constantly-growing tracklists are starting to reflect that. Read on for the 22 new Warriors of Rock songs, the six new Rock Band tracks, and the three new Dance Central grooves you’ll have stuck in your head later this year.
The largest [...]
Sony Online Entertainment is introducing EverQuest II Extended — a free-to-play version of the popular massively multiplayer online game that exists separately from the subscription model.
The free-to-play (a.k.a. “freemium,” “microtransaction-based,” etc.) model of MMO is gaining traction in the United States, it seems. First Turbine took Dungeons & Dragons Online there and then later Lord [...]
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Ars Technica reports this morning that Valve sent out an apology to 12,000 gamers accidentally banned from Modern Warfare 2 on Steam due to a glitch. Along with the personal words of Valve President Gabe Newell, they also get a free copy of Left 4 Dead 2.
Valve plans to un-ban the players over the next [...]
GameStop may currently be known as the largest brick-and-mortar retailer of physical game media in the U.S., but the company is hoping to increase its digital presence with the purchase of flash game website Kongregate.
Kongregate currently hosts tens of thousands of free games on its website, with new games being added by the community on [...]
The really big StarCraft 2 midnight launch went down last night in Fountain Valley, CA at Fry’s Electronics, but 3,000 GameStop stores across the country held their own midnight launch events. Intrepid reporter AJ Glasser scouted out a few in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I started my adventure at 10PM PST, knowing that most GameStops [...]
A brief respite between Comic-Con and the midnight launch of StarCraft II provided for a pretty wide variety of news stories today, but some of the more eclectic links to land on our laps today demand more exploration. We hope to provide just that in today’s daily stale bread.
7/26–Yay, AJ’s not dead
Rockstar wins newspaper apology, [...]
Atari revealed its financial results for the recently-concluded first quarter of the fiscal year. Due to the lack of major retail releases, the company saw a 65-percent drop in revenue, though high-profile releases over the next three quarters provide hope for a turnaround.
Whereas the April-June quarter in 2009 brought about new games like Chronicles of [...]
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According to statistics taken from Compete.com, free-to-play massively multiplayer online game Wizard 101 seems to be pulling ahead of both Runescape and Free Realms in terms of site traffic. The site analysis suggest Wizard 101 is at just over 2.5 million unique users.
The real question here is how site traffic translates to registered users — [...]
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