Much has been made of the opportunities for Facebook as a gaming platform, but alongside the rise of the metrics-focused social gaming industry and exploding casual user bases, few developers see any relationship between this burgeoning space and the traditional business. But Sony Online Entertainment sees a way to bridge that gap -- it's extending its massively multiplayer shooter property currently in development, The Agency, onto Facebook with a social game subtitled Covert Ops. With ...
A new study [pdf] claims that the video game industry may lose out on $3 billion in annual U.S. revenues as companies continue to largely ignore the needs of aging and disabled gamers. White papers released by The AbleGamers Foundation and 7-128 Software warned that the games industry is on a "collision course," with the financial impact occurring in the next five years "If the gaming industry does not realign their priorities to include accessible ...
Chinese MMO developer Suzhou Snail Electronic Co. (Snail Game) opened a new U.S. office, Snail Games USA, which will serve as the company's regional headquarters for North America and Latin America. The Los Angeles-based studio named online gaming industry veteran Scott Miller as its CEO. The new 15,000 square-foot facility will oversee the company's MMO/free-to-play game development, licensing, marketing, operations, and community management in the area. Snail Games USA's opening follows the recent establishment of ...
Independent designer Jason Rohrer is one of the gaming industry's few radicals. It makes sense that he fears people will assume his next project, a DS title ostensibly about the diamond trade in Angola, will be a quintessential "serious game," a grave lecture on the brutalities of that business. "It's not a finger-wagging game at all," a cheerful Rohrer said at GDC, where he introduced Diamond Trust of London as part of the Serious Games ...
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