Gaming News

Friday, March 19, 2010

Radoff surfaces at Facebook game maker Disruptor Beam
GamerDNA co-founder Jon Radoff has dropped some hints on his blog about his latest endeavor, a social site gaming company called Disruptor Beam LLC, which he has been working on with his wife Angela Bull. The company is making games for sites like Facebook, according to online job postings.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Quick Hit scores distribution deal with IGN for football game
Social sports games developer Quick Hit Inc. has signed a distribution deal with the largest gaming site on the web, IGN, which will make the game available through its network of sites, including Direct2Drive, FilePlanet, AskMen and IGN.com.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Blue Fang Games counting on Facebook gamers
Blue Fang Games LLC, best known for the Zoo Tycoon franchise, has just released a Facebook game called Zoo Kingdom, making it the first traditional game development studio to port its intellectual property to a social site like Facebook.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

38 Studios strikes a deal with EA to publish Project Mercury
38 Studios LLC, the Maynard video game development company established by Curt Schilling, will be launching a sort of preview game set in the same background world as its planned massively multiplayer online role-playing game, currently called Copernicus. That game, called Project Mercury, has signed on industry titan Electronic Arts Inc. as a publisher.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

38 Studios appoints new chief financial and marketing officers
Maynard video game development firm 38 Studios LLC has named two new executives to its leadership team in new chief financial officer Rick Wester and new chief marketing officer Denise Kaigler.
Tech Watch: Boston counts down to PAX East influx of 60,000 gamers
When the Penny Arcade Expo lands for the first time in Boston on March 26 it will offer one thing that no game development company in New England can resist — the chance to get their offerings in front of up to 60,000 game-crazed self-professed nerds and geeks.
Tech Watch: MC Frontalot dishes top 5 PAX East survival tips
MC Frontalot, the godfather of nerdcore rap and the musical voice of the Penny Arcade Expo, lays out what you need — and why you need it — to have a sane and safe gamer convention experience at PAX East, beginning March 26.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Boston prepares for PAX East gamers
How will Boston handle an invasion of 60,000 nerds, geeks and gamers? The answers will come on March 26 when the Penny Arcade Expo makes its first expansion from the West Coast to its East Coast home in Boston.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Turbine CEO Crowley takes unique path to game development
Most CEOs at game development companies come up through the programming ranks or are recruited with an MBA in their pocket. Not Turbine Inc.'s Jim Crowley. His degrees are in philosophy, economics and, of all things, law.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Scvngr to grow its tour tech overseas
Mobile software startup Scvngr Inc., whose platform allows for the creation of location-based scavenger hunts, games and tours, plans to use part of its recent $4 million funding round to expand overseas — first into Europe and then into Asia.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

GamerDNA bought by NY firm Crispy Gamer
Less than two months after announcing it had to cut its staff size in half, GamerDNA Inc. of Cambridge has found a buyer in partner website business Crispy Gamer Inc. According to his blog, GamerDNA CEO and founder Jon Radoff will not have an ongoing role with the company.

Monday, October 26, 2009

GamerDNA cuts staff, weighs HQ move
GamerDNA Inc. has cut nearly half its workforce and is considering a move out of its Cambridge headquarters, CEO and co-founder Jon Radoff says. The small startup laid off six of its 13 employees last week. GamerDNA makes an online social network for video game players.

Friday, October 23, 2009

WonderWorld to bring online 3-D virtual community to children
WonderWorld Entertainment LLC is about to launch a virtual community for children based on the intellectual property behind its children’s television show, “Ribert & Robert’s WonderWorld,” which features an animated frog and a live-action actor in more than 30 public television markets in the U.S.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Immerz puts game vibration on chest device
A chest-worn device that uses vibration to enhance immersion in a game or movie — created by stealthy Cambridge startup Immerz Inc. — is a finalist for an award by the Consumer Electronics Association.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Conduit collects $3M in latest funding round
Conduit Labs Inc., a Cambridge-based social gaming startup, is raising $3 million in new funding, according to documents filed with the federal government. Previous investors Charles River Ventures of Waltham and Westwood’s Prism VentureWorks participated in this new round.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Turbine on defense of patent suit
Turbine Inc., the Westwood video game developer often cited as one of the leaders in Massachusetts’ growing game sector, is now named as a defendant in a patent lawsuit filed by a New York instant messaging software company.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

MassTLC gaming survey touts a $2B industry
According to a new report to be unveiled this evening by the Mass Technology Leadership Council, the Bay State is home to a digital gaming cluster that will account for more than $2 billion in value this year and employs approximately 1,200 people statewide.
Vivox, Electronic Arts partner on voice capability in gaming
Vivox Inc. has signed a partnership with video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. Natick-based Vivox will provide voice software for the electronic arts game Command and Conquer 4, executives of the company said, adding that Command and Conquer is the first of several collaborations that Vivox and Electronic Arts plan to announce.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Penny Arcade gaming conference coming to Boston
Penny Arcade’s busting growth has benefited Boston-area video game enthusiasts, who now can experience the annual video-game enthusiasts’ gathering, which sold out in Seattle several days in advance this year. PAX East is scheduled for March 26 through March 28 in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center.

Friday, August 21, 2009

38 Studios replaces CEO Close, shifts VP MacLean to role
38 Studios LLC has replaced president and CEO Brett Close, promoting vice president Jennifer MacLean to the corner office, the company announced today. MacLean, formerly a manager in the games division at Comcast, had been senior vice president of business development.