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- Craig Allen: When Employees Own the Business
- Craig Allen is CEO of Spark Unlimited, a gaming company structured on scrum development, a rugby strategy which splits a single business into small, cross-development teams to increase efficiency. Allen elaborates on the benefits of scrum development for both Spark Unlimited and its employees.
- Videos 2008-03-08
- King.com's Robert Norton: Getting in the Game
- It's not Nintendo and it's not gambling, but every month 80 million games are played in nine languages on King.com. Billed as "the world's largest skill games site," King.com has capitalized on the public's appetite for fun, charging many of its 10 million registered users small fees for competition and...
- Videos 2007-10-03
- Sony Prepping A Pay-To-Play Service For The PlayStation Network
- Functionality aside, one of the biggest differences between Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE gamer network, and Sony’s PlayStation Network PSN has been the cost: If you want to play against other gamers on Xbox LIVE, you need to pay around $50 annually for Gold service though various retailers offer discount cards;...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Gamestop Preps For Digital Distribution, But Used Games Still Drive Most Profits
- Despite a slump in game sales industry-wide, GameStop delivered strong Q3 numbers—performing much better than it did in the previous quarter, and vs. Q308. The company delivered a 31-cent share profit on $1.83 billion in revenues, up 8.2 percent year-over-year; net profit was up nearly 12 percent. As has...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Amid Merger, Game Ad Firm NeoEdge Gets EA Vet Mansford As New CEO
- NeoEdge, the casual and online game advertising platform, is getting into the game development business. The company has merged with Offspring, a startup founded by a team of four EA vets, and will start creating casual and social games, as well as the ad platforms to support them. Offspring...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Why Sony's Planned Music Store Won't Start Out As A Serious iTunes Challenger
- Sony keeps flip-flopping over adding music downloads to the PlayStation Network PSN. After scrapping plans to add a music store to the gaming network—complete with the ability for gamers to port tracks to the handheld PSP—comes news that the company will indeed expand the PSN into a full digital...
- External links 2009-11-20
- Lifetime Digital, King.com Tie Up For Games Deal
- Women's cable programmer Lifetime Networks knows its audience and that audience likes casual gaming, which explains the latest news from the new home of Project Runway: UK-based King.com will be the exclusive provider of co-branded skill games for MyLifetime.com. King.com claims to be the world's largest provider of skill...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Earnings: Sluggish Market Sends GameStop's Profits Into Free-Fall
- With the video game industry finally feeling the impact of the recession (hardware and software sales were down 28 percent in July, per NPD), it’s no surprise that GameStop turned in Q2 numbers that were far less impressive than this time last year. The games retailer was profitable: net...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Live Gamer's Buying Spree Continues: Acquires Twofish
- More consolidation in the in-game and social media commerce market—and it comes just as social media sites warm up to the idea of making money from virtual goods. Live Gamer has acquired rival virtual payments and analytics firm Twofish, in a combination cash and stock deal. Full financials weren’t...
- External links 2009-08-24
- PartyGaming Buys World Poker Tour For $12.3 Million
- Online gambling firm PartyGaming has purchased “substantially all of the assets” of World Poker Tour owner WPT Enterprises for $12.3 million, along with a five percent cut of revenue generated by the assets. The deal includes World Poker Tour-related properties, including the World Poker Tour TV show which is...
- External links 2009-08-25
- Smith & Tinker Raises $29 Million To Try And Be The Next Webkinz
- Seattle-based gaming company Smith & Tinker is hoping that it can turn a combination of an online battle game and related electronic toys into a franchise that’s just as lucrative as Webkinz (which is bringing in a reported $750 million per year, per SAI). The Seattle-based company recently launched...
- External links 2009-08-25
- Console Price Wars: Microsoft Drops Xbox Elite Down To $299
- Hoping to boost console sales this holiday season, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has dropped the price of its Elite Xbox 360 to $299. The $100 price cut comes just about a week after Sony finally slashed the price of the PS3, also to $299. But to hear Xbox 360 Product...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Global Gaming's Pirate Bay Deal Approved By Shareholders
- The new Pirate Bay is born: Global Gaming Factory X’s long-running and controversial attempt to buy the infamous and often outlawed Torrent-tracking site has been approved by the company’s shareholders. It’s against all the odds: key investors pulled out of the the SEK60 million (£5.1 million) deal in the...
- External links 2009-08-27
- Live Gamer Raises $2.8 Million In Funding
- In-games commerce firm Live Gamer has raised $2.8 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. The company is calling it “side-car” financing that came in prior to its acquisition of Twofish; the money came from a mix of previous backers and new investors—though Live Gamer declined to give...
- External links 2009-08-27
- MLG Adds $3.5 Million Funding, Launches Doritos-Backed Gaming "Combine"
- Pro gaming league Major League Gaming MLG raised an additional $3.5 million in funding—and it likely used some of the money to acquire gameplay data firm Agora Games—according to an SEC filing. We’ve put in a request for clarification. This brings MLG’s total raise to $46 million, including a...
- External links 2009-08-31
- World Of Warcraft Magazine Targeting Gold-Rich, Long-Term Subscribers
- Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) is adding orcs, trolls and blood elves to its list of licensed magazine franchises. The Bath, England-based publisher is partnering with Blizzard Entertainment for World Of Warcraft: The Magazine, a quarterly available in English, French, German, and Spanish.Most interestingly, the 148-page title will be available...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Lifetime's Digital Strategy For Project Runway Includes Streaming On Demand For First Time
- A first for Project Runway as it finally starts a new life with season six on Lifetime Thursday night: full episodes of the show will stream on demand at MyLifetime.com after they premiere on cable, paidContent has learned. The show was on NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker’s list of...
- External links 2009-08-19
- Earnings: Activision Delays Two Games; Matches Analyts' Expectations
- Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Blizzard matched analysts' expectations for the quarter, but the gaming giant said it was delaying the release of two games—Singularity and StarCraft II—into 2010. The company also said there was "uncertainty regarding" whether its blockbuster World of Warcraft game would relaunch in China.2Q 20082Q 2009Estimate...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Industry Moves: Gamestop Appoints Petrovic as Digital Head; Big M&A Budget and Mandate
- Gamestop, the offline games retail giant, is finally moving into digital in a much bigger way: just last week it announced the launch of an online casual games store, and now, it has appointed Chris Petrovic, former head of mobile at Playboy (NYSE: PLA), as its new GM of...
- External links 2009-08-05
- ScreenLife Execs Give Casual Games The Hollywood Treatment
- Take clips from the best Hollywood blockbusters, throw in some addictive game-play, and add a bit of social media—and you get what Exponential Entertainment is hoping will be a winning combination for movie-lovers and advertisers. The casual games company has gone live with its first set of movie-based games...
- External links 2009-08-06
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