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Showing posts with label Gaming News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaming News. Show all posts
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Less people buying games from stores
Are less and less people buying games from stores? Yes, it seems to be the case. And more and more people are choosing to download them online. For the first time, online downloads surpassed retail sales. See the full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-11397504
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Female gamers still left out in the cold
When it comes to producing games, the male counterparts seem to be highly favoured still. Do you agree on this?
Read the full report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-10883404
Read the full report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-10883404
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
Google Buying Gaming Company Slide
Google is out shopping yet again, with the latest deal of gaming company Slide. The deal is set at $182 million. Google has in the past invested $100 million in Zynga, FarmVille's gaming company. However, this decision has made many of us turn our heads, since Slide is not something that we often hear of, or have even played their games before.
Slide owns the rights of a few games like the Top Fish, SuperPocus Academy of Magic, SuperPoke, and SPP Ranch. It designs tools or widgets for social networking sites like Orkut, MySpace and FaceBook. I am sure you have used SuperPoke before on FaceBook. This is seen as a direct challenge to FaceBook, which is well known in the gaming industry, with many developers having their games on the social networking site. FaceBook can boast of the FarmVille game, and now it seems like Google wants a share of it as well.
Slide owns the rights of a few games like the Top Fish, SuperPocus Academy of Magic, SuperPoke, and SPP Ranch. It designs tools or widgets for social networking sites like Orkut, MySpace and FaceBook. I am sure you have used SuperPoke before on FaceBook. This is seen as a direct challenge to FaceBook, which is well known in the gaming industry, with many developers having their games on the social networking site. FaceBook can boast of the FarmVille game, and now it seems like Google wants a share of it as well.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Google pumps money into Zynga, the company behind FarmVille
There are some sources that cite Zynga will be the cornerstone for a new service by Google, the Google games. It is set to be launched at the end of this year.
It seems like there is no stopping Google. They are everywhere, from search engines, to social sites, to mobiles, to news, to books, and now games. In April this year, they hired Mark DeLoura, a gaming expert to be the mastermind behind Google games. TechCrunch also reported that Google has invested $100-$200 million in the FarmVille mastermind Zynga.
What does this signify? The Google games can take a huge share of followers off Facebook this time round. This is especially so, since there are many privacy issues that surface from FB recently. We are now looking at what Google is coming up next, probably a profile portal as well? Be prepared for the onslaughter!
It seems like there is no stopping Google. They are everywhere, from search engines, to social sites, to mobiles, to news, to books, and now games. In April this year, they hired Mark DeLoura, a gaming expert to be the mastermind behind Google games. TechCrunch also reported that Google has invested $100-$200 million in the FarmVille mastermind Zynga.
What does this signify? The Google games can take a huge share of followers off Facebook this time round. This is especially so, since there are many privacy issues that surface from FB recently. We are now looking at what Google is coming up next, probably a profile portal as well? Be prepared for the onslaughter!
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