Tag Archive: Gaming Industry
Zynga acquires Warstorm developer Challenge Games
Warstorm and Ponzi developer Challenge Games has now been acquired by Zynga. Challenge Games executives, including chief executive, founder and serial entrepreneur Andrew Busey, and its 35 employees will immediately begin serving as Zynga’s Austin studio. On Facebook, Challenge Games has turned Duels into an app, launched Warstorm, another card-themed fantasy game, dabbled in role-playing [...]
Sony PSP Piracy Levels Are “Sickening”
Last year wasnt exactly a big year for Sony’s PSP in North America, with a software release list that could nicely be called thin. Reports have come in that this was in part due to developers nearly abandoning the PSP partly due to piracy on the platform.
Demigod pirates flood game server
Demigod PC game publisher Stardock talks about how pirates outnumber legit customers 6 to 1 when their latest game debuted last week. Stardock proudly doesnt attach DRM to their software but with these numbers, I’m not surprised if they did just that. In a post on the game’s forums, Stardock’s Brad Wardell has revealed that [...]
How the Gaming World should work by Gabe Newell
Valve’s Gabe Newell is one of those few people in gaming who you need to listen to when he speaks. Newell’s company has churned out blockbuster games such as Half Life to Left 4 Dead and whose Steam platform is fast becoming the standard in digital distribution of games. Speaking to MTV’s Multiplayer blog, Gabe [...]




