Ruin is still early in development, but it’s being eagerly anticipated for its PS Vita-to-PS3 cross-compatibility, addictive action-RPG gameplay, and expansive social features.
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Inside SCEE: Dave Ranyard
Many game fans will tell you that they would love to be making games for a career, and yet relatively few know what game development actually entails. Following my chat with PlayStation Home...
DanceStar Party Gets E3 2011 Moving
Ever since I have been attending trade shows like E3 , the London Studios team has been there providing a great source of entertainment for participants and onlookers alike with SingStar and now...
Social games will monetize people in the future: Parody or inevitability?
Filed under: Other Games Wait, isn't this just gamification ? A clever Gamasutra blogger predicts in a scathing parody that the next step for social game developers like Zynga is to monetize non-players'...
Zynga’s Brian Reynolds trying deeper, more clever social game design
Filed under: FrontierVille , Other Games Hey, you asked for it. Zynga's chief game designer Brian Reynolds never rests, and even now he's working to bring deeper game mechanics to social games without...
Playfish hires ex-Planet Moon Studios CEO Aaron Loeb as GM
Filed under: Pet Society , Other Games Now that it's nabbing CEOs, EA must really want to catch up to and strangle Zynga .
Social games will help Facebook become Facebank by 2015
Filed under: Other Games According to Metal International founder and president Ken Rutkowski, social games will boost Facebook Credit sales and account holdings more than anything else on the platform, TechWorld reports ....
BattleBall on Facebook: Explosive graphics, but where’s the game?
Filed under: Other Games "Boy, that sure is a nice tech demo," I thought to myself as I watched lithe street ballers destroy backboards with shattering force in BattleBall's preliminary matches. Standing as...
Tetris Battle on Facebook: Just one more line…
Filed under: Other Games There's much to be said of that "in-the-zone" feeling that rushes over you as you obliterate line after neon line of digital blocks. Even if you don't remember it...
Zynga wants to be the Amazon of social games, says CEO Mark Pincus
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games The zealous chief of the social gaming giant made the ambitious claims at the Zynga Seattle opening ceremony last night. In the midst of the recruiting rush...
Social game discovery channel TeePee Games attracts new investor
Filed under: Other Games In its quest to save us all from the same old Facebook and mobile games, TeePee Games has found another investor in Turner Broadcasting Europe , who owns TV...
Tiny Speck puts Facebook MMO Glitch into closed beta next week
Filed under: Other Games Things are going without a ... hitch for Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield's newest project, Glitch , after his company, Tiny Speck , closed its second round of funding with...
Toyota joins EA, Playfish in Monopoly Millionaires with in-game Prius
Filed under: Other Games Your next free gift in Monopoly Millionaires could be ... a new car! More specifically, a digital Toyota Prius thanks a 12-month partnership between Toyota, EA and the game's...
Fighting games are Facebook-bound, says Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono
Filed under: Other Games The man behind Street Fighter 4 3D Edition for the Nintendo 3DS sees Facebook as the future home of fighting games, Siliconera reports . Finally, Facebook users can duke...
Hardcore Facebook games could grow fivefold by 2013
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games While I would consider FarmVille as hardcore an experience as they come for dedication's sake, that's not what this study by Social Times Pro has in mind....
CityZen on Facebook: A CityVille clone joins the march
Filed under: Other Games Look, Metamoki , we know you felt burned when Zynga took Mob Wars and spun it into Mafia Wars , one of the most successful social games to date....
Anna Hazare inspires social gamers for social good in India
Filed under: Other Games If you thought the Facebook-fueled revolutions in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere were impressive, then check this out. Several games on Indian social networks like Ibibo have seen record boosts...
Kiip rewards mobile gamers’ achievements with real-world prizes
Filed under: Other Games Well gii , we never thought we'd see the day when another product successfully used the letters "ii" in its name.
Rumor: Xbox Live learns from Facebook, free-to-play games incoming
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games Microsoft may have taken another cue from Facebook. IGN reports that, according to a trusted source, free-to-play games could be coming to Xbox Live as soon as...
One in nine Facebook users play music games; Guitar Hero finds a new home?
Filed under: Other Games Has Guitar Hero found a new home on Facebook? According to data presented by MXP4 , a social game developer based in Paris, it very well could be in...
NBA Legend on Facebook dunks over 1 million monthly players
Filed under: Other Games No, thank you , March Madness . NBA Legend , which NBA Digital claims is "the first original professional sports league game for Facebook," has quickly surpassed 1 million...
Social gaming will be $5 billion industry by 2015, Parks Associates says
Filed under: Other Games OK guys, we get it, social games are going to make lots of money in the next five years. I'm sorry, did you say $5 billion by 2015? Alright,...
RockYou’s Julie Shumaker: ‘We’ve got to blow sh*t up’
Filed under: Other Games According to RockYou SVP and GM Julie Shumaker, social games need more explosions to reel in the hardcore crowd. While she was probably kidding, Shumaker spoke on this very...
Zynga hires former Cisco SVP Debra Chrapaty as new CIO
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games Zynga , we think it's time for an intervention. You just bought hired Taylor Barada yesterday and now Debra Chrapaty as your new chief information officer?
Top 25 Facebook games – April 2011
Filed under: Other Games , CityVille "Will nothing end the indomitable tyranny that is CityVille ?" cried the legions of social game developers as they watched Zynga's behemoth top the Facebook game charts...
GameStop goes social shopping with new Facebook retail store
Filed under: Other Games While they've yet to get into the social games biz, GameStop just took one massive baby step in that direction with its very own Facebook shop, VentureBeat reports ....
Nintendo 3DS gets FarmVille this summer (with Harvest Moon 3D)
Filed under: Farmville The ultimate mobile gaming cage match is about to begin: FarmVille for iOS versus Harvest Moon 3D: A Tale of Two Towns for 3DS . According to G4TV , the...
Facebook games could make money thanks to social, not just addiction
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games It's a common belief that Facebook games are so successful thanks to an incredible small, dedicated, addicted minority that is willing to spend on things like Farm...
Social games publisher RockYou chooses CEO from within, Lisa Marino
Filed under: Other Games Isn't it always nice to hear of companies finding talent right at home? RockYou , the social games publisher who just signed a deal with John Romero's Loot Drop...
Former Factor 5 founder opens social game studio, TouchFactor
Filed under: Other Games As the flock circles onward, another joins its fluffy if dangerous ranks.
Crowdstar Cares campaign aids Japan relief through AmeriCares
Filed under: Happy Aquarium It seems like every year, there's at least one disaster somewhere in the world that gets all the major social games companies in the giving mood.